[tomzz]

Part of the problem has to have been recruiting practices then prevalent. You had an age in which a battle amounted to lines of men walking up to within fifty yards of eachother and blasting away with muskets; obviously IQ was not something you wanted in a soldier at the time. You wanted him just bright enough to carry and operate the simplest kind of firearm, and no brighter.

That obviously would not have worked with a technological marvel like the Zarandoni rifle. Austria would have had to scrap its entire military as it existed and developed a citizen army.

[Shimmer128]

ping for later. I love history, plus my husband sells these things (high powered air guns) I don't pay any attention to them usually, so I don't know most of what you're talking about, but it's interesting to me because of Lewis and Clark.
Now the boys, they'd understand what you all are talking about right away.
:)

[freedomlover]

You had an age in which a battle amounted to lines of men walking up to within fifty yards of eachother and blasting away with muskets; obviously IQ was not something you wanted in a soldier at the time.You had an age in which a battle amounted to lines of men walking up to within fifty yards of eachother and blasting away with muskets; obviously IQ was not something you wanted in a soldier at the time.

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LOL