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That's a British drill manual, for an army that was able to regularly get off 4 aimed shots a minute, so....I'm sorry, but you're just wrong. Whipping it up into the air away from the crowd is not "the right direction". You cannot properly aim a rifle swinging it around like that. Also, It...

Yes, you will at least need to take a moment to aim, but a few seconds is far from unheard of. Drill manuals of the period are extremely clear on this point, soldiers are always to load, present (read: aim), and then fire. The practice you're using, where the guy whips the gun into the air and...

If you're firing through smoke, your accuracy is going to suck no matter what you do and what gun you have, but you will still have to take a moment to actually point the gun in the right direction or you'll never hit anything, which the guy in the video was not doing. Also, it's not really...

Wiki says about a hundred. No idea how that compares to conventional muskets, but I suspect that given it's fire rate, there's a decent chance the thing would get fouled into ineffectiveness mid battle.

I'm going off of what S'stak has said regarding it's capabilities, since I believe he's got a fair bit more knowledge and experience with black powder firearms than I do. And yes, if you are firing completely unaimed shots (even musket armed troops spent a few seconds to aim, despite the limited...

While @S'task makes a good point in comparing the Ferguson to the contemporary rifled muskets, it occurs to me that he also hinted at the reason why the Ferguson rifle was a technological dead end. Yes, it was faster to load than contemporary rifles, but it's only going to keep that edge for a...