Stevens 311 SXS

[tops]

Then I discovered Parker shotguns. Turns out I can hit with Parkers. A 16 ga. Parker on the O frame is a delight!

I always thought Parkers were too chunky and until I saw an O frame 16 ga. I have never saw but one and it got my attention but I was too poor to own it. You are blessed to own one and saying it's a delight is an under statement. Larry

 

[JoeDice]

Stevens 311

Very nice model 311 . The wood grain of buttstock is impressive for a 311. My very first shotgun at 13 years of age was a 12 gauge 311 30 inch choked mod/ full but I still felt fortunate to have it . Bought for me at a local shop for $65 by my dad . I was with him, when he bought it. Mine must have been a lower grade
no checkering and it had a " blond " stock refinished I'm pretty sure
But I got some pheasants and rabbits with it.
Respectfully
JoeDice

 

[Hair Trigger]

Then I discovered Parker shotguns.

I discovered them several years ago. What I discovered was I couldn't afford one.

I'd love to have a nice Parker, and a nice A.H. Fox.

 

[CajunBass]

I discovered them several years ago. What I discovered was I couldn't afford one.

I'd love to have a nice Parker, and a nice A.H. Fox.

My grandfather had a A.H.Fox (with Krupt steel barrrels he was quick to tell you). 30" full and full. And he had a 20 Parker that he had sent back to the factory to have automatic ejectors fitted. I just lusted for that Parker. Still I think the prettiest gun I've ever seen. The Fox was his deer gun when I was hunting with him. I saw him kill many a deer with that gun and number 1 buck. I don't think I ever saw him hunt with the Parker, but my uncle used it from time to time when rabbit hunting. I suppose he has them both now.

Back to topic. The first gun I ever picked out and paid for myself was a Sears-Roebuck double 12. 30" Mod/Full. A Stevens 311 rebranded as Sears-Roebuck. I picked it out of the Sears wish book, and my mother called Sears and ordered it for me. A day or two later a Sears truck dropped it off at the house. That was in the long gone pre GCA-68 days. I guess I was about 15 or so. I had worked on a tomato farm all summer for $5.00 a day to pay for that gun. Still kick myself for selling it.

 

[merl67]

I have one in 12 ga used to have one in 410 I foolishly sold that one....

 

[Old Corp]

Have a Springfield M5100 - basically the same gun with different markings.
- A 12 ga. with 28" Mod/Full and choked VERY tight!

 

[Rubone]

Here is my 311 20ga (middle). Also an L.C. Smith "Field Grade" in 20ga and a Rossi "Overlander" in 12ga. My only other SxS is a Western Arms (Ithaca) in .410.

 

[Charlie Foxtrott]

I have a few of the.

I used to buy them when I saw clean ones for a couple of hundred bucks. I just had a couple of sixteen gauges cut down for house/truck guns, very handy. Nothing says go away better than the business end of a two barreled scattergun. Oops these are my model 24s, not sure where the pics of the 311s are. Anyway, the Winchester model 24s are cool also.

 

[rockquarry]

I bought a new 311 12 ga. years ago. Nothing fancy, strictly utilitarian, but a rugged, well-built shotgun that would probably last a lifetime of heavy use. I just never could come to like a side-by-side.

 

[Oscar Zulu]

My first shotgun was a .410 311 choked full and full. My dad cut it down for me and refinished the wood. Killed my first Pheasant, Quail, Duck and Goose with it. Still have it.

OZ