Check out this old photo!

[rangerider7]

These Carransa soliders were getting younger and younger during the Mexican Revolution in 1916.

[CEMENTHEAD]

The boy on the right....is he holding a Winchester 94 rifle? Looks too long for a carbine. The othe seems to be holding a Mauser of some sort.....dunno.

Cool picture. Thanks, Tom

[Buck Elliott]

Yup... Looks like a Mauser cavalry carbine and a '94, all right. you can see the rifle-style magazine tube band a few inches back from the muzzle.

If those kids are much over 13, I'm buyin' your first round tonight...

[Ysabel Kid]

Holy youngins' Batman!!!

[gundownunder]

Child soldiers, they used them then, they used them long before then, and in Africa they still use them now.

It seems to me the ammo in the bandoleer on the kid with the 94 looks too long for a 94.

[Old Time Hunter]

It seems to me the ammo in the bandoleer on the kid with the 94 looks too long for a 94.

That is probably because the kid is so small.

Then again, it looks like an 1895 to me and I do not notice a magazine tube under the barrel or extending from the fore stock.

[FWiedner]

Not arguing that child soldiers have been used since there have been soldiers, but I'd be curious whether or not this is a case of playing "dress up".

Lot of "adult" soldiers in uniform standing about.

Maybe they thought it would be "cute", like putting little sailor suits on toddlers, or dressing lil' Bubba in full camo.

[J Miller]

Playing dress up or not, the one on the right is holding a Winchester Mdl 94 rifle, and the ammo in the bandoleers is much too long for it.

Joe

[Gun Smith]

I believe it's a model 1895 Winchester. Look at the tapered forearm.

[Buck Elliott]

I believe it's a model 1895 Winchester. Look at the tapered forearm.

Part of the forearm is hidden behind his trouser leg. And that is definitely NOT a '95 receiver.

Probably 7X57mm ammo in the bandoliers.