Rhino Time: Chiappa’s 10mm 60 DS Beast

Feet can be a pain in the well, you know…

A couple of years ago, I had to buy some new tennis shoes. Normally, no big deal. Pop into Kmart and grab a pair. Done. But my feet were giving me trouble. So someone talked me into going to some schmantzy athletic shoe store where they analyze your feet and recommend the ideal shoes for whatever is ailing you.

They ran me through a battery of tests (lasers, phasers, tasers, antimatter mass spectrometers, and I think a TSA scanner to make sure I didn’t have any four-ounce liquid containers. At the end of all this, they brought me a pair of shoes and said, “Try these on.” I did. And it changed my life. They looked like double-wide gondolas, but boy, were they comfortable!

Today, I had a similar epiphany but was able to skip all the probing and body scanning. I tested a new Chiappa Rhino. It looks somewhat… OK, a lot, non-traditional, but boy was it comfortable to shoot. Yeah, I know. These aren’t new, but somehow I just hadn’t yet crossed paths with one. Their new 10mm beast was a great excuse to rectify that omission in my catalogue.