Dovpo & Vaping Bogan Blotto RTA
Australia....I have a lot of friends..and family actually, that have traveled halfway around the world to visit this very large, wondrous land, yet.....despite their stories of just how beautiful this place is, and recommendations that I apparently 'need' to go there at some point in my life... it's one of the places on this little blue ball of wonder....that I have no intention of going to......Why?....Funny you should ask....(?). The answer is simple, because they don't want me to go...
And how do I know this?......Well.....let me put it this way, if they said "Please come and holiday here, we have Cuddly Ewok spiders, Fluffy Pillow sharks and Strawberry Sundae snakes that will bring nothing but joy to your life"....then yeah....sure, I'd get on that....but no...no, no, no, I feel a great lack of enthusiasm for sharing the same thousand mile radius...with anything named...oh I don't know, let's sayyyy...a Common Death Adder?......a Bull Shark maybe?....or how about a fucking Wolf Spider!?!...
I wouldn't even know what they looked like. I don't need to, they've been named in such a way that prevents me from ever wanting to find out....because...fuck that. The cherry on this inhospitable psycho killer cake came in the form of a brief 'warning' from one of my so-called friends who spent a few months out there....and I quote...."Yeah...you have to check under the toilet seat before you sit on it, in case a spider is sat under there waiting to bite your nutsack' ....
OK then....that's that settled....I enjoy the fact that I'm as far away as possible from any poisonous insect that would like to nibble my junk.....with the exception perhaps....of my ex wife.
Now....that's not to say I don't have a somewhat soft spot for our Aussie brothers and sisters. I grew up during the time when Neighbors and Home & Away were....well.....everywhere, Crocodile Dundee was most adolescent boys hero, and Kylie Minogue was still considered to be something of a munter. Yes....I think we've established how old I am already, but regardless of all those things, there are still two very specific areas in Aussie culture that I feel an almost....fuzzy...affection for. The first is their ninja level...almost Jedi-like mastering of the foul language, I mean...it's really quite beautiful, and almost identical to the UK in both clarity of meaning and lack of fucks given to anyone unfortunate enough to be in the firing line of this colourful curse ridden craft......And the second thing.....is a different four letter word that I hold very dear to my own heart.....'beer'.....they are apparently quite partial to the stuff.
SO.....what is a guy supposed to do when asked if they'd like to try out a beer themed RTA, co-designed and endorsed by quite possibly the foulest mouthed motherfucker on the planet, an Aussie no less...who has made his name by reviewing both vape gear AND the amber nectar, whilst swearing like a trooper with Tourettes ....?
Shall we......
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G'day my delicious dripping Dags and Dagesse's, back once again like a well thrown boomerang, much unlike a badly thrown boomerang that may or may not have travelled at an unrealistically fast pace in a perfect straight line rendering one of your lifelong childhood friends barely conscious and resulting in a 2 inch gash requiring 6 stitches directly above his right eye......not based on a true story...
SO, what do we have in store for you today then? who is this Australian foul mouthed fluffy thrower? And why should you care?...Well, you should care because today's offering is a device that....certainly over the last year....has become as rare as rocking horse shit. Once the staple diet of many a vape veterans daily arsenal, yet...in an industry that has shifted its focus towards smaller, more compact Pod systems and AIO devices, dual coil RTA's... at least decent ones...do not seem to appear as often as they used to, and when they do, they're more often than not designed by long serving top tier vape reviewers or...'Vape celebrities'....if you will, usually teamed up with one the bigger and better known vape gear manufacturers. And this device....is exactly that.
The manufacturer is Dovpo, a company responsible for some of the best devices we have seen this year, and the vaping 'A-Lister' is of course one Mr Sam Parsons, AKA, Vaping Bogan, an Australian Youtube Vape reviewer that has been consistently throwing out videos of himself swearing through the latest and greatest vape gear alongside some fine crafted 'loud mouth soups' since 2016. And at just under 160 thousand Youtube subscribers, and more Ecig-click awards than me (I mean wtf is that all about).....I think he's doing a rather good job. So let's get into it, as Dovpo & The Bogan invite you to 'sub-ohm your dicks & tits off' with their somewhat popular RTA....The Blotto...'you c@nts'.....hey...I have standards ( I know right?...Weird)
The Lowdown
Blotto....in case you were wondering, simply means 'pissed'....that's not the American 'pissed'...which means angry, unless you're one of those who gets angry when they're pissed...in which case you'd be pissed pissed and the whole thing just gets really confusing. The definition in Aussie terms is pretty much the same as the UK.....it means 'shit-faced'....several levels above being simply drunk, a state which I myself am not completely unfamiliar with. Imagine being on a night out with your mates and it's late, you've been on the sauce for several hours and you get to the point where you think 'man...I'm really drunk...I'd best call a taxi'...and then 'that' friend shouts "LET'S DO SOME SHOTS!"......well the result?...Blotto....because I don't know when to say no
Beer...it would seem, plays quite heavily in the grand scheme of things with the Bogan....I dig that.
The Blotto...in a nutshell...is a 25.5mm dual or single coil RTA with a 6ml (or TPD compliant 2ml) tank capacity, and on the surface is just like any other RTA. It works in exactly the same way as many before it, however.....as is the case with this particular RTA...the devil is most certainly...in the details.
Starting on the top we have a standard push fit 810 drip tip.....although it's not exactly 'standard', with it's stainless beauty ring collar and opaque frosted finish...
And it sits in the middle of a quick release top cap that takes its design from a beer bottle cap.....fucking love that...a quick quarter turn and the cap is off, revealing dual kidney shaped fill ports underneath a silicone sealed lid....
The fill ports are flush which is a slight bug bear with me but...when you see how the whole thing is finished you kinda forgive it.
Down the sides we have the large capacity bubble glass which has become almost industry standard these days, but it leaves a very nice space between your glass and the inside chamber, something that some RTA's before it have gotten wrong - you aint getting any trapped air bubbles in the bottom of this tank I'll tell you that much....and that etched Bogan's skull logo on the chamber itself looks rather...(ahem)....'bonza'
Along the bottom we have the adjustable AFC ring covering dual air intakes....
Only this time around, the Bogan has opted for the ring to be perforated. Why?.....Because it's pretty well documented now that this offers a smoother airflow.....like I said....'details'.
