O'kay, I'm a youngin (33) but been around guns all my life. I watcha lotta westerns some new mostly old spagetti westerns with Clint in them, and always a DUKE western is good. I have never seen one that uses the saddle ring on a lever action winchester, mostly in a scabbard...sooo are these things just for looks or is there some use for them? How do they work? Just run a piece of leather through it and hook it on a saddle horn? Wouldn't that flop around a lot? I've rode a horse or two in my life and even been dumped from a flushing covey of quail...you shoulda been there...Sometimes I wonder how I made it to 33.....