Magazine follower

[Major 2]

I noticed aside the major differences between my older Brass Henry & my new Steel Frame the magazine follower.
The new gun has a  rubber snubber or bumper of sorts fitted in to the brass follower , the older guns part is solid brass.
I'm assuming this is an effort to reduce the hard hit, should one lose grip on the follower during loading.

Seems I read somewhere newer guns had this , I wonder when they started to ad this feature ?

[Coffinmaker]

Major 2,

Dunno.  All four of mine have the little rubber baby buggy bumper in the follower.  The oldest one goes back quite a ways.  Just in case your curious as to how it works, it DOESN'T.  Just finished some major "body and fender" work on a customers Henry.  He dropped the follower down on an 8 round stack.  No injury, but he did have to change his shorts and I had to make the magazine look like a tube again.

Hanging on tight to the follower is the only way to load.  The little rubber piece may satisfy the lawyers, but the cartridges don't see it as a hinderance to a magazine discharge.

Coffinmaker

[Halfway Creek Charlie]

My 2006 Henry has the rubber baby buggy bumper too.

[Major 2]

I can't seem to find a date code on my new Henry... It's most likely a 2007
the other with the solid brass follower is marked [BH] or 1996....