doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com V. Bernardelli Serial Numbers

I would not have known that either. And I majored in foreign languages, and am pretty good on what's spoken where. I probably would have thought Serbo-Croatian, which was the majority language in what used to be Yugoslavia. And apparently is widely spoken in Slovenia as well.

When we got involved in Bosnia under Clinton, in the mid-90's, the military had a lot of Russian linguists but relatively few Serbo-Croatian linguists. Fortunately, S-C is quite close to Russian. So the Defense Language Institute created a special course to transition Russian linguists to S-C. The unofficial name for it was "Turbo Serbo".

You would think that the interviewer would find that out before hand without asking the First Lady.

She should have answered her in Italian, then switched to German, then switched to Ukrainian and all the rest of the languages she knows fluently and watch Van Susteran's head explode.

"Jani, its not that young, BC is 1993"

Thanks, that sounds more what I expected. I bought the gun second hand from Germany about a decade ago.

And speaking about the First Lady, I live not far away from her birthplace. And I speak Slovenian too

With kind regards,
Jani

Jani. that's great!!

I'll bet a lot of tourists visiting to see her home these days.

Van Susteran looked nervous during that interview and a little intimidated by the First Lady.

Back to the Bernardelli. The gun in question #85000 was made in 1965. Appears to be a side plated box lock with 27 1/2" barrels. 2 3/4" chambers and choked .028 and .039. Straight stock, splinter forend with sling swivels. Bright finish side plates. 75% engraving.

The gun was purchased in Italy and brought here by the young mans grandmother. Trying to determine the model now. If it were a US import of that era I would say a Gamecock Premier. But having been purchased in Italy I'm not sure.

With the exception of the two boxes of shells the young owner fired a couple weeks ago I would guess the gun was stored away upon arrival here and never used.

Dennis