Sustained fire - Baker flintlock rifle

2/95th Australia re-enactor demonstrating sustained fire with the Baker rifle. Ball cartridge, patched with cloth, aimed shots - 13 rounds in five minutes. Two and a half rounds per minute is about the rate of a smoothbore. Rate of fire is not a reason to prefer smoothbore over rifles. The “soldier“ firing is an experienced re-enactor but his skill level would be no more than would have been achieved by a British rifleman in his first year in the 95th Regiment. Of course in this trial, no-one was shooting b