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4 rounds a minute is doable historically (which is what you are looking at here) with either a smoothbore musket or a rifle with mini-ball. The whole reason we were using rifles in the civil war was that Claude Minet's invention of the "mini"-ball brought the reloading time down for them. Otherwise they would still be weapons for skirmishers.
Evidentally some of the more experienced soldiers in the revolutionary war and napoleonic wars could shoot 5 shots in a minute and reload their muskets on the run. That must have been something to behold.
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