The Low Wall version was intended for less powerful cartridges like the .22 Short, as well as the pistol cartridges of the day—.44-40 WCF, .38-40 WCF and .32-20 WCF.

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 ...