APOC 战斗胁差 Dragon King Tactical Cutlass review

Hi everyone, welcome back. Colton with The EnBlaved Reviews. We have the Dragon King Tactical Cutlass here. This is an Angus trim design, very simple design, single edge blade, slightly swept back here, a little bit of a false edge on the back as well, take some weight out of it, take a look at some specs on it, take some up-close looks at it, and of course we'll do some cut testing. Let's get to it. Overall length 29 and three-quarter inches all the way from the end of this here with the lanyard hole to the tip with the false edge that we're going to take a look at in just a moment. Blade length itself, single edge blade like I said before, very thick, very sturdy blade, and then you'll see it comes to a false edge on the back here. That's also to reduce weight so that when you're slashing with it, it creates a little more velocity into it. With this blade itself, we also have a micarta handle and it's pinned together. It's got little screws together, it sandwiches it. The great thing about this blade is it's one single piece, so all the way from the short hand guard to protect your hand from thrusting, from your hand sliding up the blade, all the way down is one piece. And then brilliantly designed, they've sandwiched this together, that way you have a grip on the handle and then they take the screws and then put it together. So you have a full tang, you have a full tang single edge cutlass here, that way you can slash with it with proper training. If you're doing cut testing, you have that available to you. If you prefer to have two hands on it, you also have that option. You'll notice that if I have one hand on it close to the guard, I can slide that hand on there. You also have that for the double force grip, even if you wanted to brace on the back there. Also noticing the Dragon King logo on here, right by the little swept hand guard, you'll notice that protects my thumb from sliding up just about a little bit here. It's not a very pronounced hand guard, but enough to protect the forefinger as well. All right, we're looking at a 9260 high carbon steel here. You'll see this black coating on it. This black coating is allowing us to prevent a lot of rust on here. So if you're working with this in the field, using it for bushcrafting or anything like that, you have this protective layer, that way the blade is less likely to corrode. You have an overall weight of one pound, 15.8 ounces. It actually doesn't really matter. It's just between one and a half and two pounds. It's usually a pretty standard size and standard grip for a single edge sword like this. Properly balanced, has a good slash to it. Feels actually pretty good in the hand. I don't work with a lot of cutlass, but this one actually feels pretty good. It's a very adaptable blade. Like I said before, the grip, we have that micarta. Wraps very nicely. Not a round handle, more of a flat one. So you'll see the knuckle lining is right in line with the blade edge. Excellent handle with that single edge or that's something that's double edged as well. All right, so we also have a kydex sheath that comes with it. Two options for the belt loop. If you want to wear it a little bit lower or a little bit higher, a little bit closer to the belt here. It's more of a vertical carry, which is not something I'm usually used to. I'm used to more of a 45 degree carry for the draw, but if it's something you prefer, I would suggest more of a nylon belt. We have a vast selection of belts here at ColtonMathen.com. You can just go in the accessories section and you can definitely find something that will fit this belt as well. It's a very common size, so you can just look for a common width on the belt, about one inch to one and a quarter. This will be able to accommodate that. Obviously anything skinnier will also accommodate that as well. This is a hard plastic. It's a kydex here, so we have that flat black on here. That way it doesn't collect moisture as much. Then we also obviously have the belt loop. This slides out. Drawing this, obviously be very careful. There's no seam, so it's all plastic, but when you're drawing it, you have the option to pull a little bit. Notice there's a little bit of a click. When I take it out, obviously don't do it like this when you draw it. I'm doing this only for the video. Then if you click it back into place, just a little bit of a click here. Most of the retention is about right here on the guard. That sandwiches it together. As I click it back in, that's about all you get. I wouldn't run with this upside down. It would be highly dangerous. Also, I'm not going to demo that because it's dangerous. You'll see it locks back in place. Keep it with the handle up. It should be just fine. What I want to do now is do some close-up looks of the blade outside of the scabbard, and then in the scabbard. It comes with a kydex sheath, also with a belt loop on it. We'll do some close-up looks outside of the scabbard now. Then we look at the blade. See what you think of it. From here, we do some cut testing on this blade. See how this tactical cutlass does on the tatami mats. Let's get to it. This is exactly why they do the false edge here. You'll see the moisture on here. You'll see the moisture where it caught. This is a very common place at the very last six inches of the blade that you're going to have the maximum amount of percussion here. If you have this extra thickness on the blade, which is great for durability, if you had it on the last six inches of it, it's less likely to pull all the way through without a lot of effort, a lot of dragging of the blade. You'll see when I slash through this, because these are soaked all the way through, and you cut all the way through this, and you pull the blade through, there's just simply less blade to go through on there. It actually felt really good. If we take a look at the other side of it, the other side is a clean cut. We did sharpen this. These come sharpened, a factory edge, but we add a sharpening service to show you the potential of just a little bit of a touch up on a blade can do. Excellent cut here. See a very clean cut, and then we'll do a little bit of close-up to see what the blade looks like after the cut test. Noticing there's no damage to the blade, still allowing a very pronounced cut. All right, so we finished it off. See a diagonal slash. This split a little bit because it's a little bit dry, but you can see the diagonal cut all the way through. A little bit frayed, but you can see still did the job, popped that all the way through, and got the cut to work. All right, so there you have it, the Tactical Cutlass by Dragon King. You see the plastic scabbard, the Kydex scabbard they have with the belt loops. Awesome. Good amount of retention to it as well. We saw the blade in action. We saw some close-up looks at the blade with the black powder coating to protect it from rust and corrosion. We have a micarta handle, flat grip as well, three studs to keep it in place. Full tang design as well. Very solid blade. If you enjoy this blade, you enjoyed seeing this blade in action, go ahead and comment below. Let me know what you like about this blade. Let me know what you want to see in the future. We're now taking more requests on blades, so feel free to get active in the comments. I'll be more than happy to start getting more blade reviews too. Subscribe to the channel, like this video, and I hope to talk to you soon.