Ricochet Shot confuses me significantly. The wording seems to suggest that it applies to every attack once you take the feat, but the fact that it a) has the one-action symbol, and b) has the concentrate trait seems to imply that it’s supposed to be it’s own action that you have to go out of your way to do (and this can’t combine with other special actions, like Quick Draw. I’m just really confused about how this feat is intended to be used.
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I agree with Dubious Scholar in more ways than one. Both my initial reaction, but also my confusion after reading the feat a bit closer. Still, I think I have a pretty good idea of what might have happened now.
My first instinct is that it's probably missing "Make a ranged strike with a firearm or crossbow", but then again, it also mentions the firearm or crossbow part lower down, which it wouldn't have to do if this was supposed to already be covered earlier. But also, the wording is as if it's describing a discrete action when it uses words like "from your ranged attack" rather than "from your ranged attacks" or something similar.
Though, I think what seals it for me is the wording in Ricochet Master where it says "when using Ricochet Shot", which is the wording Paizo uses for actions like these. Moreover, since the prerequisite is Ricochet Shot it would be pointless to say "using Ricochet Shot" if it's a passive.
I guess at the end of the day my opinion is based more on what would have to go wrong for each interpretation to be accurate. For it to be a special action all that really needs to be missing is a reference to making a ranged strike. For it to not be an action the visual of the action (something that's much more noticeable than inconsistent wording imo) would have to be wrong, the wording would have to be a bit off, and even another feat (Ricochet Master) would also have to be written in a way that's inconsistent with other feats.
That's the way I see it, anyway.