Looking at the J Stevens Catalog No. 50, in the cartridge description section, it's interesting to note that the catalog illustrations of the long straight cigarillo shaped .22-15-60 (introduced in 1896 according to the catalog), .25-21-86, .25-25, and the .28-30-120 cartridges all having the word STEVENS suffixed onto their respective catalog cuts, but the bottlenecked 25-20 carries the suffix CENTRAL FIRE without the STEVENS. I’ve often wondered if this seeming discrepancy in the catalog was due to the earlier Maynard’s having chambered the bottlenecked 25-20 single shot cartridge. I have seen Stevens rifles chambered for the 22-15-60 cartridge having the 22-15 SS barrel marking. In the WRA catalogs issued in 1886, the model 1885 rifle section lists the .22 WCF as one of the available chamberings, but when you go to the ammunition section of those same catalogs, the catalog cut shows the cartridge listed as the .22 WINCHESTER SINGLE SHOT , not as the .22 WCF. Those WRA catalogs show the .22 WINCHESTER SINGLE SHOT cartridge loaded with 15 grains of black powder and a 45 grain lead bullet, so it might have also been called the .22-15-45 cartridge, or maybe the .22-15 SS cartridge. In 1890, WRA shows the .22 WINCHESTER SINGLE SHOT cartridge was now loaded with 13 grains of black powder and a 45 grain lead bullet, so it could then have been called the .22-13-45 cartridge, or maybe the .22-13 SS cartridge. In 1896, Stevens says they introduced their straight walled .22-15 SS cartridge. The WRA catalogs, in the ammunition section, continue to show the .22 WINCHESTER SINGLE SHOT cartridge up to and including Catalogue No. 78, dated Jan 1913. In 1914, WRA Catalogue No. 79, in the ammunition section, the catalog cut shows the .22 WINCHESTER CENTER FIRE cartridge.
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