LeftHandGuy
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Once again Dave I can only agree with you. No amount of Ferguson rifles would have changed the outcome of the war, indeed I don’t think it would have much mattered if Ferguson had taken his reputed opportunity to shoot Washington. Battlefield success is less important in wars of national self determination than the will of a population to resist a government whose legitimacy it has rejected. But I digress…
Had the Ferguson rifle’s operating mechanism been executed in a more robust manner then I think it’s likely that screw-breach loading flintlock rifles might have seen wider military adoption. It’s an intriguing thought anyway….
Had the Ferguson rifle’s operating mechanism been executed in a more robust manner then I think it’s likely that screw-breach loading flintlock rifles might have seen wider military adoption. It’s an intriguing thought anyway….