Dirty South KAMO BBCOR Review

The Kamo featured Dirty South's proprietary composite materials and unique connection technology. Limited to BBCOR certification, it offered a slightly end-loaded feel that appealed to gap-to-power hitters looking for something different.

The Dirty South Bat KAMO is a single piece composite bat. That is, it is made of one piece and out of a material that, to the layman, might best be described as a plastic. Composite barrel bats are not new to the industry. Some of the best we've ever hit have a composite bat. But the DSB Kamo is unique in that it is made of a single piece instead of two. DSB claims the KAMO's impressive feel is created by a unique composite built with a softer feel. We don't know have any particular insight to the manufacturing process of their composite versus another companies, but our experience with the bat did feel kinder on our hands than we first expected. In fact, of the 6 hitter we had use the Kamo BBCOR not a single one of them complained about hand sting.

On the market today the only real competitor to the Dirty South Kamo BBCOR is the Mizuno Power Carbon. Both bats are monster barrels on a single piece composite bat. Both feel great when you square one up. However, in terms of swing weight the Power Carbon is much lighter. Considerably so---almost 8% which is just about the difference of an Inch. In terms of swing weight you'd compare consider the 34 inch Power Carbon to 33 inch Kamo. Both the Kamo and Power Carbon are first year iterations (meaning they have no predecessors). The other bat, which the Kamo reminds us of, is the Combat Maxum. The Maxum, you recall, is a single piece full composite bat. Combat went defunct and was absorbed by Easton. You can still find a few of the older models floating around. Some are still new in wrapper. Also, new for 2019, Louisville Slugger upgraded their Catalyst into a bat called the Prime One. This is a single piece composite bat. However, it does NOT come in a BBCOR version.