DMM Dragon 2 Cams (new for 2016)

I was sent a few of the DMM Dragon 2 cams to review and thought I would share my thoughts with the climbing community. I found these cams to be far superior to other cams on the market for free climbing, though I have yet to try Wild Country Cams.

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Any questions? Feel free to shoot me an email at ilana@thrillseekersanonymous.com

Sounds like the "teeth" on the new Dragon are more than a gimmick. Interesting. Nice to finally see some independent testing of this cam!

Thank you for posting.

Nice. I remember being surprised when they discontinued the Dragons; now I know why. The extendable slings were always a cool idea.

For me, the biggest advantage of the dragons is the extendable sling. Granted, I only have a dragons as my red, yellow, blue doubles to my C4s, but I rarely ONLY extend using the dragon sling and end up attaching a draw to them anyway unless it's my first or second piece and there's ground fall potential. So MAYBE I take less draws, but it's certainly not taking one less draw per dragon cam, the sling just simply doesn't extend far enough.

Well, plus if you have to place any nuts...

The extendable sling would be nice on desert splitters where you know you're just going to be plugging cams all day.

I've never tried the Dragon cams but I do have the DMM torque nuts and like the extendable sling feature.
Though I agree that you (most likely) won't see a one for one reduction of draws. Draws don't weigh a heck of lot anyway and I always take a few more than I think I will need, just in case.

I'm gunna snatch up the old version for cheap i think, £42 per cam will be pretty sweet.

I have one of the new dragons and a couple of the older ones. They seem a little less smooth than a camalot, but I trust their placements. I really like the extendable sling. I picked mine up from gearx.com. I think the sale ended on the dragon 2s, but they still have the older model for a decent price.