Simplicity and timeless design has kept the Winchester Model 1885, Browning's first rifle, ... with some 128 patents awarded to him for everything from a single-shot rifle to a variety of semi ...

Photo by Rab Cummings What were you doing when you were 23 years old? John Browning, that industrious bugger, was designing a falling-block action for single-shot rifles. The year was 1878, and ...

A stock was made that was a melding of the Model 1895 Winchester-Lee and the fore-end design from the Model 1885 Target based on a custom stock of the Single Shot target designed in 1908 by ...

They had little trouble recognizing the advantages of a repeating firearm over a single-shot rifle. Two of the best known Winchester products are the Model 1873 and the Model 94, brainchild of ...

The Winchester Repeating Arms Company’s Model 1866 was a refinement of the Henry rifle that used a new loading gate in the receiver and a wooden hand guard. No longer would the rifle have to be ...

Let’s begin with the really important stuff: XPR doesn’t officially stand for anything. I checked. The people at Winchester needed a name for their new rifle and rather than “Ralph” or ...

A pair of Browning Model 1885 single-shot rifles were also engraved gifted to President Ford, along with a pair of Ruger No. 1 single-shot rifles engraved and gold inlaid by James Meek.