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Four is considered great with a muzzle loading musket with sub optimal low accuracy ammunition and a huge advantage over three. With the Fergusson six is very achievable in volley fire with full bore ammunition and you can begin firing at further ranges. Even one extra volley completely throws...

If you're spending a few seconds aiming through opaque smoke you're not getting four shots per minute and that still sucks compared to six. He had it pointed in the right direction and wouldn't be using undersized balls in a smoothbore which would suffer terrible accuracy. It's not magic he's...

Four is phenomenal for a smoothbore with undersized rounds a hobbyist managed almost seven with full bore rounds do you even have eyes. A few seconds becomes a moment. Carefully aiming becomes "in the right direction" which he absolutely was. God your arguments are shooting around so fast from...

If you take "a few seconds" to aim when in Volley fire you're not getting any four rounds per minute you're firing as fast as you can through a dense cloud of smoke. You're also firing balls undersized for the bore most likely without wadding meaning your accuracy is going to be comparatively...

So first we compare it in speed to volleys of undersized wadless balls fired haphazardly through clouds of smoke in formation and go "it loads slower" then when I show it actually loads faster in those conditions we say "oh well then it wouldn't be as accurate as a rifle if they did that"...

Seven shots on the minute is doable with a Fergusson what are you guys even talking about.

Why are you comparing it to other breach loaders when it should be compared to muzzle loaders.

It gives huge benefits the only issue they couldn't get around is cost