HAHAHA Kurt, yes indeed it's mainly the length of pull, I bought that rifle and my little Shiloh 45-70 used, have no idea if they're factory LOP, both wear slip on leather with the appropriate thickness recoil pad inside, when I shoulder a rifle with a good face plant on the buttstock, I don't want to struggle with trying to get behind the front sight, that cures it.
Plus, hard crowding 60 years old, father time may be stealing a bit of sharpness from my eyes, all my other Sharps rifles have no leather or pad on them, they must be factory LOP, I can manage that for clarity so far, that 50 cal 700gr grease groove bullet would let buckets of blood out of a buffalo, and no, I wouldn't test it in a swimming pool either.
