Chiappa Rhino Review

Steve Johnson
by Steve Johnson

American Rifleman have gotten their hands on the Chiappa Rhino Revolver and posted a review of it online.

While the U.S. market has never shied away from “ugly” guns as long as they’re reliable, accurate and easy to shoot—just look at the success of Glock—Norton questioned whether the North American market would embrace such an “unorthodox” design, even though it was innovative. With his heart on the pulse of the American market, Norton suggested a few profile changes, including a snub-nose variant, and prototypes were turned around almost immediately.

Heh.

The Rhino at SHOT Show.
Steve Johnson
Steve Johnson

I founded TFB in 2007 and over 10 years worked tirelessly, with the help of my team, to build it up into the largest gun blog online. I retired as Editor in Chief in 2017. During my decade at TFB I was fortunate to work with the most amazing talented writers and genuinely good people!

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  • Tim Tim on Mar 18, 2012

    Purchased the DS and it continually misfired due to failure to rotate the cylinder. I returned it to the gun store where I purchased it and was told it would take two weeks to get it back. It is now going on five weeks. Still no news about the problem or when I'll get my gun back. I'm very disappointed in the poor performance of the pistol and especially the total lack of customer service. I will never buy another gun from this company and will try to get my money back and purchase a different pistol.

    • Mike Ferguson Mike Ferguson on Apr 27, 2012

      @Tim Good luck getting parts from these folks. Not even their distributors can get them and no-one not even Chiappa seems to care, what a way to run a company. Just think what someone could do that was service oriented.

  • Joey Joey on Apr 30, 2013

    is a 357 rhino 200ds a good gun for a woman

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