Mr. Emory Hackman in his website hackman-adams.com says "With the Spencer the ammunition was gone before the fight was over," and, "Regiments with rapid fire repeaters in the Civil War had to be shunted aside in the major battles." He contends that running out of ammunition was a habitual problem. He also said that the repeaters generated so much smoke that unless there was a strong breeze the enemy could move up close to the repeater shooters because they (the repeater shooters) were essentially blind.
He also said "The cratridge could be successful in the wide variance in barrel bore diameter shown below [52(.540 to.555)] because the bullet had a huge hollow in its base same style as the Minie ball first used in the .58 Springfield musket.
Question: can anyone document any of this???
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