Based on Browning patents, it was made from 1915 until 1977. On one occasion, when he needed to resolve a problem in camp, Selby remembers thinking his Woodsman was the gun for the job.

John Moses Browning invented yet another in the long list of firearms to his credit in 1914. This one was a semi-automatic rimfire pistol design, the Colt Woodsman, that lives on to this day in ...

Browning designed more than thirty firearms, with the Winchester 1885 single shot rifle, Remington Model 8, Browning Auto 5, Colt Woodsman, Colt 1903, Colt 1911, Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) and ...