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another issue to consider, is the 66 Yellowboys didn't have a wooden forestock, and the modern clones didn't either ....which can become an inconvenience as the barrel heats up.
The Winchester Model of 1866 certainly DID have a wooden forestock. It is the 1860 Henry that did not. While the term "Yellowboy" certainly may have been later regularly applied to the Henry, its most common assignment (perhaps the origin) is to the Model 1866, especially the carbine version (a full 75% of Model 1866's were carbines) so favored by the Native Americans in defense of their homeland.