The WestPoint 911 is actually a house brand of the Savage Model 511,,not of the Stevens 311.
WestPoint was a housebrand sold by Ace Hardward I believe.
There was also a Springfield 511. WesternAuto Stores sold the Springfield 511 as a Model 4xx something.
The 511 is an even more utility version of the 311.
It's a non-(quick) take-down version in that the forend does not detach in the normal pull/snap off effort and then the bbls pivoting to detach them from the frame.
The forend wood is attached to the bbl rib by the screw thru the bottom of the forend.
You remove the forend wood by removing the large screw on the bottom of the forearm.
Then under that on the short 'forend iron' you will see a round pin or rod surrounded by a coil spring sitting lengthwise with the bbl's. The spring is quite powerful.
You have to pull the coil spring back and move that rod to the side taking the spring and contact tension off of the frame and cocking arm. The bbls can then be removed from the frame by opening the top lever and tipping them down.
With out pulling that spring back and moving the rod off of the frame contact, the bbls will not come off of the frame.
The pin is what cocks the hammers when the bbls are opened.
Not easy to disassemble/TD,,even more not easy to get back together!
But that's the 511. It's own special cocking set up, bbl attachment, forearm, ect.
Same internal pivoting hammers and coil mainsprings as the 311's though.
Most people never take them apart or think they are some aftermarket modification to the original common TD system like in a 311.
A Westfield MA address on the frame is 1960 and onward mfg.
A ser# is Dec/1968 and on.
I really don't know when they stopped mfg them. Sometime in the late 70's or early 80's I would make a guess.
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