12 "Easy Steps" To Loading and Firing A Flintlock Rifle - By: JoAnn Graham, 2009-03-07

A skilled flintlock rifleman could get off three shots in a minute. That's twenty seconds to reload and fire the next round. But a platoon of cavalry rushing at that rifleman on horseback, or an army of infantry bearing down on him at a dead run could cover a lot of ground while he was going through the laborious, twelve-step process to reload and fire his flintlock musket. How did they do it!

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