WI: Where else could the Ferguson rifle be manufactured?

[A Piece of History]

The Ferguson rifle was designed by Scottish officer Patrick Ferguson, but it was not adopted by the British Army due to it being too expensive to produce and it also took too long to produce. 200 were built, but the rifle was soon replaced by the traditional Brown Bess musket.

If the rifle was too expensive to be manufactured by the British, where is the most likely place to produce the rifle (or a breech-loading rifle in general) where cost or length of production wouldn't be a issue?

 

[jczak97]

You'd probably need a place with decent manufacturing capabilities. I could see the Dutch possibly developing something with it.

I don't think it could really become a true main battle musket/rifle until manufacturing replaceable parts becomes mainstream. It would most likely stay in the role of a skirmishers/light infantry role till then.