• bionicjoey
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    9 months ago

    You couldn’t easily reload one of those bad boys while prone.

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      9 months ago

      The moment breach loaders became available Prussia used them to absolutely destroy Austria-Hungary and their muzzle loaders in battle.
      This shows that the soldiers back then where limited by technology not their intellect.