(02-06-2015, 03:51 AM)Nako Wrote: RE: MusketsI agree.
The average for the British army during the napoleonic wars at least was 3-4 shots a minute with a brown bess musket. And that was for a trained soldier, recruits were usually as slow as 2. With Rifling (i.e. a baker rifle), it was even slower, a rate of 2 shots a minute being the high end.
With the Baker rifle, it depended on how well the Rifleman shooting it could do. Since a lot of the men using the Baker were Greenjackets and Kings German Legion, and not normal infantry, they could get up to 3 shots a minute, pretty rarely more.Â
Yeah, though, someone just starting out with a musket could probably take more than a few minutes trying to figure out how to reload it.
