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Assuming there was some freelance mercenary/assassin/bounty hunter operating at that time, who had the option of choosing weapons from a number of nations what battle rifle do you think he'd have selected?

I believe the 3 main candidates would be:

The 1873 Springfield Trapdoor (United States)



The Martini-Henry (United Kingdom)



The Mauser Model 1871 aka Gewehr 71 (German Empire)



All these rifles were single-action shots. Meaning they could hold and fire only one metallic cartridge at a time.
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