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How many shots can be fired in 1 minute from a black powder rifleman?
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∙ 12y ago
I believe that in the era when they were using the Brown Bess musket, the British Army expected its troops to be able to fire 3 shots per minute. Of course the Brown Bess was not actually a 'rifle' since it was smooth bore. Still that gives a point of reference. This refers to firing a flintlock, loading from paper cartidges containing a measured charge and a ball. Of course a Winchester 1873 rifle is also a 'black powder rifle' - it's a rifled long gun, and it was certainly made only to shoot black powder. Now that, being a lever action repeating rifle, in the right hands easily fires all the shells its magazine will hold in much less than a minute - indeed I seem to recall seeing a video of someone firing ten shots from an 1873 in less than 2 seconds. So a really slick shooter (and loader) might get off 300 shots in a minute from a lever gun. There's obviously a big range, then, depending what type of 'black powder rifle' you have in mind, and how adept the shooter is.
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