Zincwarrior
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Rifled musket is a term used at the time as well.If it did not have a rifled barrel, wouldn't it have been a musket? I thought if a firearm was a rifle, by definition it would have a rifled barrel.
I may be wrong and I am too lazy to google it. But I know my fellow posters here will know the answer.
A non 1850s era rifle usually only loads once or twice a minute. With a Minie Ball variant and cartridged paper rounds we're looking at 4 aimed shots a minute.
Typical military muskets had three small balls and a larger ball for a type of tiny shotgun.