{"id":74191,"date":"2024-04-26T15:50:34","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T21:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=74191"},"modified":"2024-04-26T15:50:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T21:50:34","slug":"obscure-rifles-mondragon-rifle-the-first-semi-auto-combat-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/26\/obscure-rifles-mondragon-rifle-the-first-semi-auto-combat-rifle\/","title":{"rendered":"Obscure Rifles: Mondrag\u00f3n Rifle \u2013 The First Semi-Auto Combat Rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74192 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/MD-Rifle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/MD-Rifle.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/MD-Rifle-300x113.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gatdaily.com\/articles\/mondragon-rifle\/\">Mondrag\u00f3n rifle \u2013 The First Semi-Auto Combat Rifle<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.athlonoutdoors.com\/article\/m1-garand-greatest-rifle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">M<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.athlonoutdoors.com\/article\/m1-garand-greatest-rifle\/\">1 Garand<\/a>\u00a0gets credit for being the first successful semi-auto combat rifle. That\u2019s only partially true. Sure, the M1 Garand was widely successful, but General Manuel Mondrag\u00f3n, a Mexican General and Arms designer, beat Garand by about 30 years. Mexico adopted the Mondrag\u00f3n Model 1908 in 1904, making it one of the earliest semi-auto rifles ever adopted by a military force.<\/h2>\n<h2 id=\"h-the-mondragon-and-the-mexican-revolution\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Mondrag\u00f3n and the Mexican Revolution<\/h2>\n<h2>If you\u2019re familiar with Mexican history, you might know that 1908 was a turbulent time in Mexico, and by 1910, the country was in full revolution. The combat that spread across the country meant that the Mondrag\u00f3n Model 1908 would get a baptism by fire. The Mondrag\u00f3n became the first semi-auto\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gatdaily.com\/tags\/rifles\/\">rifl<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/gatdaily.com\/tags\/rifles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">e<\/a>\u00a0fielded by the military and used in combat.<\/h2>\n<h2>Mexico contracted with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gatdaily.com\/tags\/sig-sauer\/\">SI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/gatdaily.com\/tags\/sig-sauer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">G<\/a>, yep, that SIG, to produce the rifle. By the time the revolution started, the Swiss factories had only produced 400 rifles. The revolution saw these rifles disbursed for testing, but the Mexican military wasn\u2019t impressed. The rifles had a high failure rate that has been blamed on the poor quality of ammo issued by the Mexican military.<\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/gatdaily.com\/articles\/mondragon-rifle\/\">RTWT<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70837 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Rifle.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mondrag\u00f3n rifle \u2013 The First Semi-Auto Combat Rifle &nbsp; The\u00a0M1 Garand\u00a0gets credit for being the first successful semi-auto combat rifle. That\u2019s only partially true. Sure, the M1 Garand was widely successful, but General Manuel Mondrag\u00f3n, a Mexican General and Arms designer, beat Garand by about 30 years. Mexico adopted the Mondrag\u00f3n Model 1908 in 1904,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3786,5445,13890,6446,401,24],"tags":[9380,8579,12236,9057,7088],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74194,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74191\/revisions\/74194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}