Joe, I hate to disagree with you but I don't know of any Sharps with a draw bolt unless you are talking the 78. Does the 75 have one? News to me, but now that I think about it, I really do not know as I have never had one apart. But I don't think the Winchester lacks in quality because it is without one.
Where the Sharps (74) is superior to the Winchester is in history. The Sharps, after all, is the rifle that made the World safe for Winchester
And that sort of history is everything when it comes to single shots.
The hammer fall on a Sharps may be slow, but realistically only the rarest of circumstances is that difference going to be important. In offhand competition, that difference can matter, but I don't see any evidence of it elsewhere.
All in all, the biggest difference between them is just how much more does one of them turn you on relative to the other?
Me, I gotta have a couple of both. And a few Ballards to boot!
Brent