22 Short, as well as ... 1885 had a decent run—from 1885 until 1920 with some 140,000 rifles produced. It has been copied by several offshore gun makers, but Winchester reintroduced it in ...

The year was 1878, and Browning and his brother were making these rifles by hand at their shop in Ogden, Utah. A few years later, an executive from Winchester visited Browning to purchase the design.