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>>17779659
the whole RoF thing doesn't even make sense anyway when you consider troops were issues with 100 or fewer rounds, most pre WWI rifles had magazine cut offs and were intended to be fired in single shot and I don't think you even see clips or box mags until the mid 1880s. the french lebel used in WWI had a tube mag that didn't take clips and you couldn't quickly reload it, the krag didn't take clips. And I don't think you see any rifles with a box mag in wide use until the 1886 manlicker and 1888 lee medford and 1888 mauser
it wouldn't have been a major concern because modern artillery and machine guns weren't used en mass until WWI and most rifles, especially after the 1886 lebel could shoot way farther than pre WWI canons so most combat between the end of the US civil war and the start of WWI was literally dudes lining up like a km away and single loading and volley firing at other lines of infantry. and most of the conflicts at the time would have been minor see the spanish American war and/or vs natives in a colonial despite, see the bongs in africa and the philipino insurrections