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Mass production. Something you also have to remember is that when the Ferigison rifle first came out the way things were mass produced was not by assemble line with a lot of specific tolerances. Rather they were made by a bunch of different small shops by hand (remember, we're still not...

I'm not really? As to why they still have a ramrod you still needed to smack the ball once or twice with it to make sure it was set against the powder and to make sure there's no air pockets in the powder. Further it is a necessary tool for cleaning and swabbing the barrel. Note here how fast...

It's rate of fire is lower than a muzzleloading musket like the Brown Bess, but that's in large part because you took a lot of shortcuts when loading smoothbore muskets because there was no reason to carefully load them since they were highly inaccurate. What you need to be comparing the...