The design was quite revolutionary, and was seen at the time as a simple breach modification to weapons of the time period to accept metallic cartridges instead of the traditional powder, ball, wad, ram rod and percussion cap which consumed time during loading procedures.
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While the sources do not give any indication as to the rate of fire attainable by the average soldier, it is known that it was higher than for a muzzle loading musket roughly four rounds a minute and most probably lower than the contemporary German needle gun's 10 to 12 rounds a minute, since the " kammerlader " has a more elaborate loading procedure.
