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The same general idea is why not a single army in 1770 would take a rifle over a musket. Not even the American army when and if it had the choice it used muskets. Muskets over rifles of those days was like a semiauto instead of a bolt action in wWii. Must faster firing over time. No contest. The armies were not stupid or dense and did not therefore saddle themselves with obsolete weaponry. What is good for a hunter taking a few shots is all wrong for a soldier firing many rounds over a long time.
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Get to 1780 and see military forces adopting an air rifle:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girandoni_air_rifle
Just think about how long it would take to transfer out an air cylinder on one of those things. But it was quite the terror weapon in its day.
Jimro
January 16, 2016, 02:12 PM
