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In the EARLY 1800s, rifles were muzzle loaders. To load one of those- you would open your cartridge box (pouch on a strap across your shoulder) and withdraw a cartridge- a lead bullet attached to a thin paper tube full of gunpowder. Holding your rifle with the muzzle up, you would BITE the end of the paper (spit it out), pour the powder down the barrel, give the butt a THUMP on the ground to settle the powder, insert paper and lead bullet into the muzzle. Draw you ramrod from the hole under the barrel, and use it to ram the bullet all the way down in the barrel. Remove the ramrod, put it back in it's hole (for when you need it again). Cock the hammer of your rifle, and place a percussion cap on the nipple. If you were not ready to shoot right away, lower the hammer to the half cock notch. When ready to shoot, raise the rifle, cock the hammer, aim, pull the trigger. If it sounds complicated- it was. A very skilled rifleman could fire 3 shots a minute. By the LATE 1800s, rifles used self contained metallic cartridges like the ones in use today. You placed those in the magazine of the rifle, operated the bolt to cock the weapon and chamber a cartridge- a pull of the trigger would fire it. The rate of fire for those was MUCH higher!
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Ask a gunsmith.
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Professional soldiers do no not. Actors may.
Does a 357 rifle have a strong recoil?
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