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Is it possible to create a safe flintlock variant of the Springfield model 1865/66/73 "trapdoor" breech-loading rifle w/ 1780s level technology? Would it explode or just be ridiculously expensive? Or did the level of technical precision needed to create such a weapon simply not exist prior to the 19th century? (Without severe ASBs, like intervention by time traveler.)
In the same vein how far removed is something like the Sharps Rifle from the 1776 Ferguson Rifle? Would it be possible for some hybrid/derived 'in-between' model to be manufactured that would lead to the Sharps &/or "trapdoor" rifles being created early?