Winchester 1885 High Wall (top) and Winchester 1885 Low Wall images courtesy NRAMuseum.org Some gunners—usually younger ones—come down with a case of the vapors at the mention of John Moses ...

A few years later, an executive from Winchester visited Browning to purchase the design. A deal was struck, and in 1885 the first firearms of the Browning-Winchester collaboration started rolling off ...

The Winchester rifle’s next big jump came in 1886. ... That’s when John Moses Browning, America’s greatest gun designer, entered the Winchester’s story. In 1885, ...

Winchester 1885 Rifle Current production Winchester 1885 Traditional Hunter High-Grade rifle. Photo Courtesy of Winchester. The Model 1885 single-shot, falling-block action rifle was the first long ...

The rifle is estimated at $55,000 to $85,000 pre-auction. The auction for these presidential and other historic firearms is set for May 17 through May 19 in Bedford, Texas through Rock Island ...