Winchester often branded guns with Ranger to denote affordable varaints offered at stores like K-Mart. Such as the 120 Ranger or Ranger 1300. These guns were no frills versions of the normal catalog variants brought in at a price point conducive to being sold in discount stores. The 1300 being a pretty damn good pump for the money.
And then the other Rangers, well, Marlin, Mossberg, Stevens, Savage, and a slew of other companies would make no frills versions of their guns for sale at the local hard ware store, Sears, Montgomery Ward, Roses and the like. And they would be stamped with whatever the buyer wanted, usually something different than the previous year.
A lot of the "off brand" .22 bolt guns are well made but not very expensive.
They kind of went the way of the dodo bird with the Gun Control Act of 1968.