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>>3916317
They were also designed as 'light' artillery and were really incredibly heavy.

I mean a rapid fire stream of .45-70 is amazing firepower, but it'd be heavier than everything else the player character could carry combined, including their own body weight.

The Turks thought of something like this for fighting the Russians once, pic related.
It's a Winchester rifle, but it has a real long barrel, a full length magazine tube running under it (I think maybe it held 15 rounds), and enclosing this, is a brass jacket which is filled with water.
The idea was to engage the Russians with long range rifles, then as they closed in, they would switch to the Winchester rifles and lay down rapid aimed fire, with guns that held many rounds and which stayed cool. This worked tremendously.

Emulate a gun like this, then rationalize away the magazine however (maybe the character stops to do a brief Goldeneye style animation every 20 rounds, or just have a straight ammopool), and when you hold down fire he just repeatedly pulls the trigger and works the lever really fast.

Imagine a rate of fire like this: https://youtu.be/-NmzF9pj9Yk?t=1m10s