My dad bought me a Stevens 311A for my 13th birthday. I had been using a 20 gauge single barrel Winchester 37 belonging to my uncle for the past 4 or 5 years. Mine has (yes, I still have it!!!) 26 inch barrels in 12 gauge, choked IC and Modified. I killed a lot of birds, squirrels, rabbits, snakes, and one pig-stealing bob cat with mine. A sturdy gun, no doubt.

Wyobirds, you mention an "earlier" model than the 311 with better wood, the Stevens 511?? I thought the 511's were actually the successors to the Stevens 311s and were marketed under the Savage name??? The only 511's I have ever seen were in fact marked as Savage and the wood on them was not nearly as good as the wood in my 311A.

Perry M. Kissam
NRA Patron Life Member