Bernardelli Hemingway Deluxe

About the Bernardelli Hemingway Deluxe

The Bernardelli Hemingway Deluxe is the upgraded higher grade of the Hemingway side-by-side double-barrel break-action shotgun built by the Italian gunmaker Vincenzo Bernardelli of Gardone Val Trompia. Mechanically identical to the standard Hemingway, it is a traditional English-style upland game gun on an Anson & Deeley boxlock action with automatic ejectors, offered across 12, 20, 28 and 16 gauge with 2.75-inch chambers. The Deluxe grade distinguishes itself with finer, more extensive game-scene engraving on the coin-finished receiver and side plates, and higher-figure select-walnut furniture with an English straight-grip stock and slender splinter forend. Double triggers are standard with a single selective trigger available as an option, and it was frequently offered as matched two-gun gauge sets for the discerning bird shooter.

Named for the novelist and avid bird hunter Ernest Hemingway, the Hemingway became one of Vincenzo Bernardelli's signature English-style upland doubles; the Deluxe grade lavished finer walnut and richer game-scene engraving on the same fast-handling boxlock gun before the historic Gardone Val Trompia firm closed in 2017.

Bernardelli Hemingway Deluxe specifications

Deluxe is the finer-embellishment grade of the Bernardelli Hemingway line, differing from the standard model in wood figure and engraving rather than mechanics. Produced until Vincenzo Bernardelli ceased firearms production in 2017.