Microtech Combat Troodon Hellhound Tanto OTF - Overview and Review

what's going on YouTube metal complex here and today I've got a really really fun knife overview slash review to do with you guys this is my own personal micro tech combat Troodon not just any combat Troodon though as you can see there this one's got the hellhound blade this is a knife that I've been wanting to get my hands on again for a long time if you guys have been around for a while you'll know I used to have a micro tech combat Troodon back in 2014 way before I started the channel and I just it was like the quintessential like super supreme double action OTF and OTF had just recently become legalized in Kansas where I live was so we could carry him so I was like oh my gosh I want to get my hands on one of these and then I had it for a little bit and then stupidly sold it and I've been kicking myself ever since so an opportunity presented itself where I could pick one of these up and also the same time the exact finish and blade shape that I was really lusting after and in a steel that I was really lusting after so I went ahead and picked this guy up it is very expensive we're gonna talk all about it before we get into that I just want to let everybody know if you have been enjoying my content for a while or if you're brand new either way if you'd like to support my channel I do of course have a patron you can check out my patreon the link right down here in the description we do do once a week patreon exclusive videos that are really really fun what are they all about you can find out if you decide you want to be a patron but we do do those those are awesome I also have stickers available at the $3 tier a metal complex logo sticker as well as my metal knight helmet sticker available at the $5 tier but even the $1 tier you know would mean the world to me and it'll grant you access to those once a week videos I always have a goal going on so once we hit the certain certain mark I do giveaways so you can read all about that in the the information there on patron I urge you to check it out on the support would mean the world to me anyways let's go ahead and get a measurement of this big guy this is a big knife the combat through it on is the big one there's a there's a micro tech Troodon which is a smaller guy the micro tech combat Troodon which is a really big guy overall length from tip to the end of the scale is just a hair over 9 inches I don't know if you guys can see that there from the angle that's you're at but from tip to scale you're looking at just barely over nine inches if you want to count the glass breaker you call it nine point three I don't know why you'd count the glass breaker but there you go blade length on this guy from tip to scale you're looking at three point yeah three point seven five 23.8 inches maybe on blade yeah maybe three point eight inches cutting edge you're definitely looking at exactly three point seven five inches this is a big knife let me start this off this is an OTF and OTF is not going to be legal for everybody you need it if you're considering purchasing this knife there's a lot of red tape sometimes with ordering and shipping things in some states it's legal to own them but not carry them in some states it's not even legal to own them so make sure you check your knife laws and make sure you check your knife logs in terms of length in some places it's completely legal to carry an Onan OTF but not one with a certain blade length so make sure you check it's very very important how about we do some size comparisons up against the Ontario rat model one rat one is coming in at eight point six inches overall so a little bit some a little bit smaller there I guess I can do up against the we did this in the the infidel video I'll do it for this one to up against the benchmade infidel the benchmade infidel is coming in at about the same overall length maybe just a hair shorter it's like eight point eight and she's almost nine inches overall so there it is up against the end bench made in Israel hinting they're at a battle video coming this weekend we'll be doing a direct battle between the micro tech combat Truitt on and the benchmade infidel how about up against the sweater coat did I do the Spyderco p.m. - well here it is again if I did in Spyderco p.m. - coming in at eight point three inches overall how about up against the bench man group Chilean or in this case the Ritter ho we're ho coming in at eight inches overall how about up against the bench made bug-out bench made bug out coming in at seven and a half inches overall how about up against the Spyderco para three spider cooker three coming in at 7.25 inches overall so we've established this is a big knife renault TF even this is a big scary OTF i think it's one of if not the largest double action not single action like the halo six that's a single action Oh Tia I think the micro tech combat Troodon is one of if not the largest double action OTF knife out there what are we looking at for action it's extremely powerful this has got to be the hardest firing and my original one was like this too it fires very hard the spring is stiffer than some OTS that I've handled some people have an issue of pushing that forward in my experience it's all about the angle a lot of people try to push more down some people try to push more up and it doesn't it just doesn't yield results if you push directly in the angle you know the way that this is designed and then up it really it fires just fine it is going to tear up your fingers a little bit because of the traction there that you're gonna get with the texturing but I think this knife was really designed to be carried by a soldier one who's probably gonna be wearing gloves in which case the texture is really gonna help you out the materials we're looking at 6061-t6 aluminum and we're looking at cts 204 P which is the same thing as 20 CV or m390 but it's named by carpenter pretty thick and there's a lot of steel internals on the the chassis in the rail system so for weight we're coming in an unsurprising 5.6 1 ounces I'm honestly surprised this thing doesn't clear 6 ounces this is a big knife it's a heavy knife for most people who can carry and OTF there's going to be a lot of reasons not to carry this guy that are far beyond weight but if you really want to carry a big double action OTF that's got a lot of blade the carry profile on this considering it's basically a big long rectangle I mean it's thick but it's a big long rectangle 5.6 1 ounces not that bad it's not a weight that I shy away from you guys know that my weight limit kind of maxes out at 6.5 more emphasis on carry profile and I'll tell you this right now the profile like I said not too bad considering some knives that have some awkward carry profiles like the pair of two and pair of three are often not complained about though again this is much thicker in the body you're gonna have more stuff it's it's kind of contoured it gets really fat there in the handle so in terms of the profile it's not going to bother you as much but the weight combined with the thickness of the body might bother you if you like to wear basketball shorts or you like to wear really thin pant really tight material pants this isn't gonna work if you were you know regular jeans everyday regular cargo shorts every day you're probably going to be okay or I imagine if you're an actual soldier then this probably wouldn't bother you either anyways let's move on here we have a super aggressive blade shape one that is as far as I understand exclusive to the Signature Series and what is the Signature Series as far as I can tell it's a production combat it's a production Microtech knife but it has the special logo and it has the signature on the pocket clip I don't know if he hand-ground it hand grinds the Signature Series or if he has some sort of specific involvement and by he I mean Tony Murphy own I don't know I believe that hellhound blade shape was designed by him and his son as far as I understand it it is exclusive to the Signature Series knives and these Signature Series knives cost more money I can't tell you exactly why that is III think there is something special about him and I wish that I knew exactly what it was I looked and I couldn't find anything so if somebody knows or somebody can clarify please let me know down in the comment section I know this is stuff that I really should know before I do the review but review is more so on the knife itself you know in any case check down there somebody can clarify somebody always correct me but if you want this blade shape you are gonna have to bump up to the Signature Series there's a lot of different blade shapes that these things come with you know standard level you can get the dagger blade you can get a drop-point blade you can get a tanto blade you can get the do they do I think that's it there's there's four or five blade ships you can get standard and then the Signature Series has a couple of interesting ones and then customs you can get whatever you want but they offer a whole bunch of different finishes as well this is the standard tumbled finished you can also get of course satin you can get apocalyptic you can get the dlc mikrotik knives have been around for a while and they are still in my opinion they are still the kings of the ultra high-end US production OTF world if you're looking at if you're wanting like the best of the best you're gonna get some argument here or there you're gonna hear a lot of my protector overpriced truthfully in my experience I've hand out a lot of really nice OTS Microtech really seems to you know my protect and then arguably you know the benchmade infidel for the for the us stuff those are the big you know they're really like the big companies I guess you know protec makes the site openers but those are the micro tix really the most prominent OTF maker so I guess to let you know for what it's worth that's what I think there but lots of different options they've been around for a long time so there's usually a sort of a pick your flavor kind of thing on this particular one we do have like I said it's kind of a satin flat and then you've got these the tumbling marks they're down on the blade this super aggressive tanto here with this sort of sweep down up by the tip we have some speed holes in the blade that are really more aesthetic just like the fuller than anything else you do have some functional jimping back here I mean if you really had to bear down on it you know you totally could do that I I don't fault this knife at all you know for having the jimping on the blade I think a lot of people would say oh you know really you should only be bearing down on the handle now I think that the way that these OTF sar made you absolutely can bear down on the blade if you want to in terms of blade thickness on these Microtech knife it's never you know or I'm sorry these ot F's they're not really ever gonna be very thick because the whole blade has to go in and out of the handle so you're probably looking I'm gonna guess 120 thousandths yeah about a hundred and twenty thousand s there on the blade which means and as the potential to come down to a very thin edge the way that this is ground this tanto very prominent flat that runs about ninety five percent the length of the blade and then you you have this small area to drop down to the cutting edge it is sharp but both you know a tanto that's got a completely straight edge and also one that's not really ground a way to accentuate slicing tasks this this is not a performance slicer this is I'm not going to say it but it does have one obvious function for a soldier I guess and then it's also just sort of a tool of convenience it is an OT f that looks really wild and crazy and then it's going to it's made out of CTS 204 P steel which is an excellent steel for it so for the geometry it's going to hold his edge for a really long time the advantage to a tanto is not only in strength especially this one with this enormous flat but you also have two completely separate edges so that's nice you can kind of use one for scraping or opening packages and then you can save the main edge for some of you or maybe you're heavier cutting tasks there's nothing in the cutting path but gunk will definitely collect inside of these holes which is not excellent because the blade goes in and out of the handle so sometimes you might be carrying debris from those holes back into the handle in my experience and from what I've read OTF even when gunked-up it still takes a lot to actually get the blade to to not deploy micro Tech's you know what I mean if you watch videos that are however many years old it's like somebody's user Microtech from like 2010 and they're like I don't fail every now and then usually that's a product of just it just needs to be cleaned out a little bit and it's generally fun these things are super resilient and they can handle a lot more abuse than people think are they going to be as dependable as a titanium frame lock I'm trying to do it let me just get my finger up can you use them as hard as like say a hinder XM 18 no I don't think so but I think you can I think a lot of people would be really surprised exactly how much abuse these knives can take you know there they are there are soldiers out there who use them and there are plenty of examples online people actually carrying and using these OTS for for tasks that I think a lot of people would be surprised by so it's something to keep aware of the blade does come in and out of the handle and by the way it locks up even harder than my original there's the slightest amount of movement that's almost nothing they've almost got all the play where it's out of these but there's a little bit no rattle or anything like that but I just really I'm very very satisfied it's got such a satisfying oh that noise that it makes it's just there's nothing like the the noise on these large combat Troodons all Microtech sound awesome but these big guys man that feels good and there's even some recoil you know the amount of force that it takes to throw that blade out there BAM God it feels good really like that can't emphasize that enough if you've always wondered is it satisfying to deploy no TF yes is it more satisfying to deploy combat troodon yes I've handled a lot of OTS this thing is awesome it's the reason I went back and bought it probably pay too much money we'll talk about that here in a little bit like I said the body is 6061-t6 aluminum that's fine that's kind of the industry standard for OTF knives I love Marfan's signature logo it's very similar to the custom logo the sort of it says it's kind of got an S and it's got the am around the dagger it looks really really cool you do unfortunately have proprietary hardware listen proprietary hardware does suck it keeps you from getting into it this is the type of knife that you probably do want to take extra measures to keep clean and those that those pieces of hardware are stopping you from doing that as far as I understand micro Tech has an excellent warranty it takes them a little bit to get your knife back to you but they have a great warranty as long as you don't mess anything up you're not trying to mod it you're not using the knife in the way that it wasn't intended you know if something happens they're gonna take care of you so that kind of balances it out for me you know the fact that it's made in the USA and it's got a good warranty I'm not gonna try to get into it but I know some people would I think that's a good balance considering they've got a great warranty and they'll back their stuff up I'm happy with that some people aren't gonna be but I'm happy with it this is the new texturing that they've got going on on there they're sliders switches this one seems to be a little bit easier to operate than my combat troodon back from 2014 I can tell you that some people are still gonna have a problem with this I handed this to my wife and she's like nope I don't like it I'm making it look really really easy but I've practiced with it my hands are stronger than my wives but she was like no I hate this I can't get it to work so some people are just not going to enjoy that I do like the aesthetics of how this texturing on the button looks I think that's nice I think that's in a good place I prefer the switch to be over here after handling the infidel but it's not really that big of a deal and I know people are gonna say you're a direct tactical advantage the poignant when the buttons right here because your hands are whatever I don't care about that I think it looks nice it's not overly obtrusive and it takes a lot of force the ploy they set people always asked me there a chance a little deploy in your pocket no there's not a chance that's going to deploy in your pocket it takes a lot of deliberate force to get that blade to fire out I am NOT concerned with that thing going off in my pocket and in any case well I wouldn't doubt that it would leave a pretty serious mark in my leg and possibly more no it will not go through whatever you hold it up to just like any other OTF out there you hold this up to a surface that blade is gonna derail and you're just gonna you're gonna have to reset that's everybody knows about that I don't need to demonstrate it that's just how it is if you want to see it you can watch it on the infidel video actually did it with that one six body screws you've got some texture lines this is really comfortable to hang on to the pocket clip is a little bit of a hot spot but as far as the handle goes there's some slight contouring there's also a nice sham frame all the way around the edges everything is just nicely done also the seams here everything meets up perfectly you are definitely going to get a precision made very you know lots of attention paid to production item this is this is very very well made I know people you know like the Lightning OTF for 30 bucks or you can get this brand for that you're right and you know you can but if you really want the real thing and you want to make sure that it's made well tolerances are tight you don't have that bling if you're a stickler for blade play and you hate that every OTF out there has blade play the combat true it on at least these 2019 models which this definitely is a it says February 2019 May and they are so close to not having any blade play much less wiggle than the infidel really really like that new glass breaker that I like a lot better than the old pokey one these look a little bit better in my opinion they've got a little ball bearing up there actually they didn't have another style like a spiral tip it had a ball bearing at the end I think that's the one that mine had but I think even before that they had like pointy ones and those sucked this will definitely work as a glass breaker absolutely it's actually even optimally designed I feel like I really could break glass with this knife and I know it's it's weird to say but a lot of knives that are designed with glass breakers I'm like yeah there's one on there but I think it would be kind of difficult given where I would have to put my hands this knife do I feel like I could break a car window with it yeah definitely let's talk about the pocket clip by the way these screws go directly into the aluminum on the other side and I know some people don't like that after talking with Greg deckle from custom knives about exactly how much strength that setup has how many threads are required you know it's it's it's they want to get at least four threads in there and I would imagine there's at least four for each of those I have no problem with that whatsoever you're not gonna be AB screwing them often anyway because they're the Tri Wayne proprietary screws so basically what I'm saying is is I don't care and it also creates for a nice aesthetic backside the pocket clip is a true deep carry pocket clip which is great um I like the idea of having everything sunk into my pockets if I'm really actually going to carry this which by the way I know people are wondering are you ever gonna get rid of that no no I'm definitely not going to this is a knife that I have really kicked myself for and I know people like yeah right I I have been tormented since the day that I let my original go and I will not let this one go eventually I'll get out of the honeymoon phase with this and I will carry it and for that reason considering what it is even though it's totally legal for me to carry it here I'm very happy that it carries as deep as it does that's very nice the only thing that I don't like about the pocket clip is the bill this is going to get caught on something and I'm gonna bend it and then I'm gonna have to bend it back which is a problem because I can't unscrew this anymore there used to be holes here where you could stick a you know a piece of metal in there and you could turn it unscrew this pull of pocket clip off that's gonna be a problem if you ever want to bend it back you know but whatever no big deal all the way around this isn't excellent meaning if you want the biggest baddest most powerful OTF out there and you are prepared to spend what they're gonna ask you for this this is the one I'm gonna recommend the combat true it on absolutely now I'm a little biased we're gonna talk about some other elements when we do the battle if this video is way in the future check my channel and see if the battle check my battles playlist and see if it's up but yeah this is this is the one this is my personal favorite here's the downside of the knife even the base version of this the most basic version that you can is gonna run you at least four hundred and sixty-five dollars ouch that is a lot of money truthfully it's really hard for me to understand how they got anywhere higher than three hundred and fifty dollars on the standard version now this version is not the standard version this is a Signature Series and it has a special blade so it's gonna cost you a lot more I you sometimes you'll find deals sometimes you'll find retailers that are selling them for less I found a handful of extremely popular retails where these were available for six hundred and eighty-five dollars yes you heard me correct 695 dollars is that too much money yes why did you buy it because I really wanted it that's what it's gonna come down to I love I love the look of this so much and I was I told myself when the next combat Troodon comes along that's exactly the right one I'm gonna buy it and that's what happened I just really really wanted this it was exactly the blade I wanted exactly the finish it had the black handle by the way these come in a multitude of different colors like every color you could possibly imagine and I just wanted one I wanted like the most supreme crazy ultra amazing double action OTF there was out there in this and I paid too much money for it I I do think that these are overpriced but it's I can't deny they're amazing so no I cannot recommend this to everybody number one because it's an automatic knife and that's not legal everywhere number two they're unbelievably scary especially this this is the most aggressive knife that I have ever seen nobody is gonna be okay hey buddy you got a knife yeah sure nobody's gonna be okay with that not a single person who's not a knife guy is gonna not flinch at that that's it's scary it just is right but mainly because these are just way too expensive they're what I mean this this really pushed the limits of what I'm I feel okay buying but you know if this knife was 400 bucks I'd be right there on the edge of going yeah and yeah I could recommend it you know to everybody looking for an OT f but no I can't do that I do think that these are a little bit overpriced however people who are like okay I've got 700 to spend I've got 650 to 700 to spend I am looking for the most aggressive crazy you know well-built automatic knife out there I want premium materials if I buy this combat true it on am I going to be happy with it is it going to be dependable is it going to be something I'm gonna love sitting and fondling on my couch while I open it and close it and at the same time something that I can actually take out and use and really depend on yes a million times over yes but specifically for those prerequisites you know like you you have to already be on the ball field before I can recommend it to you so guys this is an awesome knife I I'm really happy that I finally have my hands on it you're gonna be seeing it a lot on the channel because it's gonna stay here forever so anyways if you enjoyed this video or at least found at entertaining please leave a like if you'd like to check out my other content I do of course have lots of videos of knives that are either expensive or inexpensive that I don't like so check those out and if you enjoy all my 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Channel: Metal Complex

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Id: m6_Pjf8LQ2U

Length: 23min 0sec (1380 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 13 2019