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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: rogwar on November 25, 2014, 07:05:16 AM
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It's a story worth knowing if you have any interest in history. Would love to shoot a real replica some day.
Have you heard of it or shot one?
http://www.11thpa.org/ferguson.html
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vb_Yo_ELC48/TJa0LXGzxWI/AAAAAAAAgKw/v8HLxTxL04k/s1600/My+Ferguson+18.jpg)
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It's faster to shoot a regular muzzleloader.
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I've seen it on some documentaries. Tales of the Gun I think.
Glad the Brits decided to not adopt it.
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I see where one at Christies is selling for 38k ( it's an off caliber model original ).... Even the replicas now a days are going for 4k +
I've seen an original at the national park museum in Morrisville Nj. Apparantly there's only 2 surviving guns of an original 100 brought over to the US by Ferguson during the war, both in museums.
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It's faster to shoot a regular muzzleloader.
How do you know this?
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How do you know this?
Written in the link. "Ferguson found that the rifle was able to be reloaded more rapidly than any other weapon"
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How do you know this?
It was loaded from the breach.
http://youtu.be/CACM0YDhbUY?t=7m
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Written in the link. "Ferguson found that the rifle was able to be reloaded more rapidly than any other weapon"
Exactly my point.
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The link is wrong. The Ferguson was much slower to load particularly as the rifle became 'experienced.' It was one of the first types that offered breach loading, was a terrible breach loading design, and it would not have been very successful in actual usage. It is a fact that the only Ferguson rifles actual made were known to foul quickly, which would make them useless after five or six shots. Ferguson rifles made today might be a bit different, but I would put a Hawken Rifle up against one any day. Not quite contemporaries, but there is a reason that fifty years later they were still muzzle-loading.