Period correct '74 Sharps Buffalo Rifles?

[Don McDowell]

If you're into such a mess that something is going to tear the paper on a bullet, you're going to have bigger problems than that.... Sort of reminds me of the argument that you shouldn't carry a rifle butt forward in a saddle scabbard because it might hook a small tree or something and break the stock,, broken stock at that point is going to be the least of my worries.