A Bersa Model 85 in nickel finish with original walnut grip stocks. A blued-finish variant was also available.
The otherwise-similar Model 86 featured a matte black finish and black synthetic grip stocks. 

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Sights :

.	Rear	- windage adjustable, notched blade, dovetailed into slide
.	Front	- staked onto slide

The Model 85 was rollmarked on the left side of the slide "(BERSA) S.A. RAMOS MEJIA, ARGENTINA 
MOD. 85 CAL. .380 ACP",  with the serial number just under that on the same left side, of the frame.
(The Model 86 was similarly rollmarked)



The legend "INDUSTRIA ARGENTINA" is rollmarked on the right side of the slide

Controls : (images are of the similar Model 83)



Parts Diagram : kindly refer to the similar diagrams of the Model 83 or Model 23

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The Model 85 was Bersa's first doublestack-magazine pistol, chambered in .380 ACP. It could hold up to 13 rounds in the magazine, plus one more in the chamber. As with other models in this generation of Bersa pistols, the Model 85 eschews an external slide catch. An internal mechanism is instead employed, wherein the slide is released from lock-back by pulling the slide rearwards.

Disassembly begins with switching down the disassembly lever to allow a full rearward pull on the slide against recoil spring pressure, until the slide leaves frame-rail engagement. The rear of the slide is then lifted slightly up and off the frame and frame-rails, and allowed to return forward, until fully off the the frame and the barrel. 

The Model 85 was in production from 1989 to 1994, its finish-variant the Model 86 being available from 1991 to 1994. Thence, a new double-stacker .380 ACP  pistol would succeed them in Bersa's pistol lineup, the Thunder 380 Super.

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