Chiappa Triple Threat at the Range 

Doom guy has just confirmed his next purchase

Ian gets sooo many bonus points for the last few seconds.

Person: Hey Ian, wanna use Birdshot, Buckshot, or Slug? Ian: Yes! that made my day

Say some gangsta is dissing your fly girl. You just give em one of these.

You look so genuinely satisfied with the one-liners at the end.

"that will ruin your day, several days, 3 days! *grins*" -Ian

Pretty cool, but I think I'll wait for the quadruple threat....

I believe I know the ultimate role for this shotgun: being the best possible gun for places like the UK and Australia which have tiered licenses or separate licenses for shotguns and rifles. Basically in the UK on a shall-issue shotgun license you can have up to 3 shots loaded in the shotgun at any one time, any more than that and you have to get a Firearms License which requires, among other things, long standing club membership, a specific reason subject to great scrutiny, yadda yadda. Yeah it sucks, but the saving grace is that air rifles and shotguns can still be owned by those who aren't landed property holders (no kidding you get an FAC as the firearms license is called by default for owning rural land in most cases). So you could have a double barrel, but at the cost of the extra round which you could have in a semi or pump action. You can't have a detachable mag, so therefore this is the fastest firing shotgun you can legally own, because you can certainly jam 3 rounds in that faster than a Remington or whatever with 2+1 capability. Plus its extremely cool and seemingly extremely practical for game shooting and messing around (responsibly and legally!).

4-1/2 years later and the price has gone up. Chiappa's MSRP is $1955.00.

'Triple threat' sounds like a super soaker name

$1,500? good thing you made a video, damn right it'll be a forgotten weapon pretty soon.

I dont know how but i think Ian enjoys his job.

The Luftwaffe triple barrel, two 12's and a 7mm were always impressive to me.

I think the biggest advantage is that you can have more fire power in places like Australia that outlawed pump actions.

Ash: alright you primitive screwheads! Max: *laughs in thunderdome* Doomguy: *ominous silence*

By the way, there is an old seven barreled smooth bore flint-lock gun for use ship-to-ship (nock volley gun). It fired all seven barrels at once. It was known to break shoulders, so it never became very popular in any navy.

This shotgun makes my credit card finger itchy ....

I could see one of the biggest advantages is having the max shell count allowable for bird hunting. You're just as effective as anyone with a semi auto. If the price drops to $1,000 and they offer an ejector I'll buy one.

always interesting and entertaining and I'm not a big gun guy - 3 barreled shot guns, flamethrowers , what next ?( Hi I'm Ian and this is a Polaris SLBM from the1960's) - thanks Ian

The Chiappa Triple Threat is priced at just above $2,000 USD on their site currently. Didn't go down in the least lol

It's actually pronounced "Kiappa" and in italian means "ass-cheek". lel

Chiappa stated the purpose for a 3 barrel gun was to those who prefer a break open design but still wants the maximum number shots for waterfowl. I too want one but not at the current price in this configuration. I would like a barrel selector and possibly ejectors. From what I have seen on line the barrels always fire left, right, upper and that resets every time you open the action! If you where able to control whether to fire the top barrel first it might make a low cost drilling of sorts with a rifle barrel insert. However those change I fear would drive the price completely out of reach.

When I first saw these, I thought they were gimmicky. Now that they are seriously for sale and not just showing off how odd they can be...I still think it is gimmicky, ha, but I must admit I did not expect all those nice features. It seems it will be a collector item only, but have some function as well. A functional collectible if you will.

that continuous grain after the brass is fine quality work right there! so nice

Use an adapter with the third barrel and you can use rifle or pistol rounds. Makes it quite versatile for hunting.

The price is reasonable considering the number of parts + the complexity of manufacture + regulating three barrels. The brass spacer in the stock is very clever. Fun review! Keep up the great work!!

Loved the blooper reel at the end of this one. lol

Ian, The akkar and Chiappa Triples basically exist to get around some countries gun laws prohibiting pump or semi auto's. They can be seen as a gimmick, but do serve a surrogate purpose to get around draconian laws. Hence why, in Australia, there are lever action shotguns and these triples about.

Three shots of 12 ga as fast as you can pull the single trigger, short barrels, pistol grip. I can think of a few scenarios where this could be really useful. A lovely simple gun, no pump-action or semi-auto to mess up, and 3 shots is a charm! _And if you can't stop a threat with three 12ga you are fighting Thanos!_

Very expressive the way how you went very fast on shooting !! Well done!

Interesting story, my great grandfather had a custom drilling rifle made for him (three barrels). Before WWII ended, he was certain that Rommel would conquer Africa, so he had a custom dangerous game rifle made for him. If I remember correctly my grandfather told me that the top two barrels were .600 N/E, and the bottom was 12ga. Unfortunately the rifle was confiscated after the war, and that is considering that he was an officer.

Thank you once again Ian for your great reviews, body of knowledge, and just being you too :) As a suggestion for the wood screws, I would bore the receiving holes with fine-threaded sleeves with good scoring on the outsides for grip with the epoxy (whatever)to set them in, and use an appropriate bolt (philips/slot type) instead of the screws. Just a wee thought from my pea-brain. Actually it would not take much for the manufacturer to upgrade an obvious weakness like this, and it would not cost much for them to do so in my honest opinion. Does this make sense? Anyhow, cheers Ian! Great review as mostly always :)

"Hey Ian, you wanna use birdshot, buckshot, or a slug?" "YES!" C:

If you want to take the stock off repeatedly I would simply drill out the holes for the wood screws, fit threaded inserts and use bolts instead rather than drill an extra hole in the pad. Triple barreled break guns are fairly common in continental Europe but they usually have two shotgun barrels and one rifle barrel. They cost a bit more though.

I like this guy. He gives an informative assessment of the weapon and what to expect followed by demo. No bullshit, no endless digression from the topic, just spot on specs and demos. Thumbs up. And an awesome shotgun. Ordered one just off this demop :-)

So the perfect "gun" for a Three Gun match ?

My wife: Why do you need a shotgun with 3 barrels?! Me: 'Cuz sometimes you got to shoot 3 Mofos, and some times you got to shoot 1 mofo 3 times.

Watched on 14.Nov.2017 litteraly lying on the floor almost dying of laughter from those last 20 seconds or so, absolutely couldn´t hold myself, awesome

Seems to me that it's intended as a waterfowl gun, since waterfowl shotguns are limited to three rounds by an international treaty.

How do the barrels work? Which barrel gets shot first and is there any way to change the current barrel with some sort of selector switch? Really cool gun thst looks really high quality. Great video like always! Keep it up!

Loved the bloopers!

I have one of these for my girlfriend's side of the bed (I have a 590 on mine), since it's utterly simple to use and there's almost nothing to know besides point and shoot. Loaded with three Aguila Mini-buck rounds, it's a fairly soft kicker that offers three no-thought-required rounds that spread out to about the size of a softball at home defense distance (with cylinder choke) and carry about the same energy of most commercial .44 magnum loads and won't blast through a bunch of walls and cause even more problems should the worst happen and it have to be used. I got a pretty good deal on it at $700 used in perfect shape. I like it.

Would be a great hunting shotgun for Swedish conditions since you're only allowed to load up to three shells when hunting. Barrel might be a tad short though.. Either way it looks like an awesome and dependable shotgun

I think if i owned this gun i would paint the high vis front-sight black everywhere but the two round surfaces (if it is a fiber optic containing sight the light only gets in at the two ends so that it wouldn't decrease visibility) because i think the gun is not bad looking except for that orange tip which makes it "cheap" looking. Also, the idea is nice and the trigger sounds like it's really good for follow up shots, but i think having at least two triggers would have been much better because it would have allowed you to choose for exemple the two side by side barrels with your usual buckshot and a slug in the upper barrel, or even two loads of n°9 birdshot and a third with n°8 or n°6 in case the bird is a bit farther, having the trigger work barrel per barrel removes what could have been a really nice and desirable feature.

1: I'm your Huckleberry. 2: You fire three shots or only 2? 3: This is my boomstick! 4: Eenie meenie miny moe!! 5: On the third day, God created reloadin! (my favorite xD) 6: We should have shotguns for this kind of deal! 7: I got three guns, one for each of ya! 8: Rule three, triple tap! 9: Joe biden says fire two blasts!

Saw a Chiappa Double barrel Side by side .410. Super light weight. Really cool. Might end up getting one.

Love that ending! Lol

Really rocking those Air Force ABU's. I didn't know they came in a left-handed version.

Load two buckshot and the third middle tube as a slug, dutch load break action and you'll be much more accurate with the slug if you load the middle tube with it since there's no offset. The takedown stock makes this gun for me, it makes the gun as short as it can legally be with three quick shots capable and no reliability issues of a semi-auto. Wax slugs and cut shells would work out of it.

You could easily put threaded inserts in the screw holes and use machine screws. I wonder if the removable stock could give it the ability to put a stock on to accommodate for different sized people

These guns are actually made by Akkar in Turkey for Chiappa

I would not have missed the opportunity to light that thing up one handed. I did it once before with a friends pump action fitted with the Pachmayr fore end and pistol grip.

Cool freaking shotgun, loved the end montage.

You should really make more videos at a range, shooting some guns. This is the best way to familiarize with a weapon, imo.

"It may be a little bit difficult to pinpoint what the purpose of a 3 barrel break action is" Omar Comin!

It's a beautiful piece. And that brass band in the stock just begs for engraving, something like "From my loving wife, on our 10th Anniversary" or "Sic Semper Tyrannis".

I want a break action shotgun with so many barrels its called the "fucktuple threat"

The "third shot" in tombstone from that double barrel was the second shot from a different angle. If you look at the scene a couple of times you will see its the same dude going down in the same way in the second shot as the "third shot" but the second shot is him getting hit from the front and the "third" shot is the same guy getting hit but from the back. It's a poorly placed double take for a drama but it isn't actually the major discontinuity that some people see it as.

This gun is now in the nearly forgotten category: The importer has gotten any for over a year.

5:58 that little smile conveys so much joy.

The styling is kinda weird... that skeletonized action release lever just seems like it doesn't belong

What's the firing order and why no optional sling connection on the butt?

"Yes." lmao that delivery

I miss this old intro

At first glance it looks like a 40mm M 79

Haha this was amazing! I honestly thought having a three-barrel shotgun would be ridiculous as soon as I seen it. Adds quite a bit of weight for just one extra shot. After watching this and seeing its features though, I really want one! Not enough to put down a grand and a half though... maaaybe $700-800. Even a grand would be pushing it I think. I mean, I got my 1896 No.1 Lee Enfield for that much which is over a century of awesome while being one of the first 8000 Lee Enfields ever made in history, and my Dec 1941 M1 Rifle for less than that. Also, I once had a crappy Marlin Model 50 12 Guage bolt action Goose gun which had a 2 round detachable mag. 2+1 for around $150 as apposed to 3 for 10x that much... Yeah, definitely over priced.

The price for the triple threat has actually increased....

That thing is just perfection. Home defense, target shooting, hunting too - it's just great!

8:14 "Joe Biden says fire 2 blasts" I died laughing

the little 'out takes' at the end are the best.

so if god created reloading on day 3 does that mean he created stripper clips on day 4?

Do you know what company made shotguns for Sears an Roebuck?My uncle has one.Double with a single shot .22 on top center.

Dat end montage tho

I suspect there is a fair bit of hand labor in the assembly, soldering the 2 barrels and the third barrel together and regulating them to throw the patterns near each other. So i doubt the price will come down much. Neat design though, and some good features.

So... that pistol grip only version isn't an AOW?

Dude, which one of the three barrels shoots first ? If you have just one round, in which barrel 'll you load it to prevent you from pulling the trigger one or two time for nothing ? Pardon my english, I'm french.

$1500 is to much and will the gun's undoing. Too bad really since it's an interesting idea

Here is a practical not gun related tip. If you find yourself in a situation, where the screw holes have just been gnawed away from the wood, get an match or two, snap it in half and stick both of the halfs in the hole. If the secrew still feels a bit loose, put some more matches in. You can do this also with chemical fillers, if you happen to have some at home.

these things still havent went down in price. which is a shame. they would sell alot more and make more money if they lowered it down alot 600-800 would be fair but 1,500. theres ALOT better guns on the market and alot better break action shot guns, maybe not one's with 3 barrels but you have to ask your self, is that third barrel really worth triple the price. i say no. i think thats were they was going. triple barrels so triple the price lol.

I love the sounds of this gun doesn’t sound like a normal shotgun

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Brings a smile to my face, just like BRRRRRRRT!

This is a very fun gun to shoot from the hip, and after a dozen rounds you can hit a target at ten yards with at least one shell.

I'd rather have 7 mossberg 88s

in 20 years Ian will be a feeble old man reviewing this shotgun for a second time

"joe biden said fire two blasts" has not aged well

'The price will probably come down' *looks up price* "$1955" *video was uploaded 7 years ago* oh no

“Joe Biden says fire three blasts!” God, how that stings today as of 2020.

This guy is like the beard of knowledge for forgotten weapons. 👍👍👍

I think I found my ideal home defense shotgun.

If only it had a mechanism/select fire option for all 3 barrels at once. One of the strengths of the double barreled shotgun was being less comparable to a semi auto and more akin to one or both. Imagining 3 spreads, slugs, or anything inbetween firing in unison would be magnificent to see, even if the recoil might be a bit tight.

no way to fire all barrels at once?

Looks like u had a little too mutch fun whit the takes on the end there mate ^^, (Keep the vid's rolling, doing great stuff!, Love from Sweden!)

or you could spend the same amount of money on a tricked out VEPR with every gizmo in the book, or buy about six cheaper double barrel coach guns, or get a marine super 90...

The intro and the outro: brilliant!

BOOMSTICK

The shells hitting the ground is so satisfying

The "Joe Biden" mention had my laughing way too hard. Keep up the Fire!

The reason most SxS coach guns are 20" because of the people who want to chop the stock down to a pistol grip. It gives you the extra 2" so you don't need that extra wood behind the pistol grip to make up the mandated 26". Personally, I still chopped my Stoeger Coach Gun back to 18-1/4" because I have no plans to chop the buttstock down to a pistol grip.

These guns remind of me of stargate atlantis. The satedan military rifle is also a 3 barrel shotgun, one on top, 2 below. Wooden stock aswel. probaly coincidence

This is nice thanks for taken em to the range dudes