I had one for a while, a 12 gauge Italia if I recall correctly, and liked it very much. It was nicely finished, although the wood was somewhat plain. Worked reliably the entire time I owned it. One of the nice features was that you could cock both hammers with one motion, which allowed me to shoot low gun skeet and cock the hammers after I called for the bird. Got a lot of "how do you do that?" type comments, since few of the guys at my club are sxs shooters and even fewer shoot hammer guns. I foolishly sold it when in the thrall of some other gun I couldn't live without. I now own an I. Hollis 10 gauge hammer gun and an Austrian 16 gauge hammer gun, neither of which I'd ever have considered had not the Bernardelli experience been so much fun.