Hello,
Has anyone gotten their hands on the new M-LOK rails from Troy? What are your impressions? I’ve been holding out on replacing my VTAC Alpha rail with an M-LOK handguard, and I’m fond of the way the Alpha rails attach to the stock barrel nut. I’d like to know if these are the same and how much they weigh. I’ve also emailed troy as well, I’ll post any response I get.
I just tried to order a 13" one yesterday and they emailed me to say it wouldn’t ship until the end of May. 
Makes sense that there are not a lot of reviews yet, seems they will take a while to get out there. I’m glad you replied, I wasn’t aware of your company and you have some awesome M-LOK mounts on your website.
Thanks! Regarding the rail system: I handled a few at SHOT Show, and was hoping to use one for pictures with our products, mainly because it has the 45 degree mounting locations. I’ll probably snag one when they are finally released. Kind of annoying that Troy doesn’t have any kind of live inventory on their site.
They told me the same thing but not until after i ordered it.
First I’m hearing of the Troy MLOK rails. Will these use the standard barrel nut like the Alpha series, or something proprietary? Can’t tell on their site.
As far as I can tell it looks like the screws are in the same location, so it hopefully uses the standard barrel nut. It would be really smart for them to do it this way, so that anyone with an older Alpha can swap out to M-Lok.
I contacted troy a few weeks back and they said it does use a standard barrel nut and the 13 inch comes out to right about 11.5 oz including all the mounting hardware and has the same OD as the alpha. Im pretty sure it has 4 mounting screws instead of 3.
A review when you get one would be great. I’d replace a standard alpha rail as well if it’s more or less the same with mlok slots. In the m lok vs keymod, I’m putting my money on mlok.
If you were asking me for a review i dont really post reviews but i will for sure let you know what i think about it after ive had it for a few days. If its the same as an alpha but with mlok and 4 mounting screws instead of 3 then I already know ill love since the alpha is still by far my favorite rail. When i emailed them they said it would ship around the same time that slippers posted above so it shouldnt be too long.
That’s good enough for me. The ability to put some low profile rail covers on it (I have the vtac alpha) would be awesome for extended shooting without gloves.
Ill get some pics up too when i get it. Im pretty sure the MLOK version is also a tad bit lighter than an alpha rail of the same length.
Yeah that would be great. Probably about the weight of the vtac alpha and almost the same look.
I’d like to bump this thread.
Any reviews? Pics? Etc.
I’m interested in this rail.
Derek
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This looks like the closest I’m going to get to an MLok BCM KMR.
I’ve given up on BCM caving on this any time soon, which is to bad. I’d really rather the BCM route existed.
This has the right profile and layout with 7 faces of MLok, like the KMR has with keymod.
I’d like to give the carbon fiber version a shot. Hopefuly combined with a V7 titanium barrel nut this could come close the the weight of the KMR, which i consider its most valuable asset. If not for its liw weight I would have replaced them with geisele mk8 rails which I think is amazing, i only wish it was 4-5 ounces lighter.
I’ve never had a troy rail, but I’m excited to give this one a try.
I see you’re looking for 7 mounting surfaces but have you checked out the ALG rails?
http://algdefense.com/ergonomic-modular-rail-v2-m-lok.html
They don’t offer 7 surfaces but do offer off set mounting slots. I’ve also never read about mounting issues with them, as I have about Troy rails. In fact most people who have them seem to say that they have one of the best barrel nut/rail interfaces on the market. They are also slim like the KMR and cheaper than the Troy.
I have had many recommendations for the ALG rail based on my above statements. While having never handled it I don’t love the looks of the mounting systems, and especially don’t like that the machine flats onto a round rail. I like that troy instead of doing that to their round Alpha rail they made an octagonal extrusion. It looks nice and clean.
With this weekends 20% off sale from Troy I couldn’t pass up grabbing one of these 13" Mlok rails for 160$. I should have it tomorrow based on living a couple hours away from them, unless they don’t have it in stock, either way I’m locked into the pricing.
If I like it, and troy releases a carbon version I will pick that up to replace this with. Looking at the weight of the 13" carbon alpha rail, 6.8oz and the V7 titanium barrel nut .78 oz. for a total of under 7.6oz. The 13" BCM KMR is 7.7oz so, this would be exactly what I have been looking for to replace my KMR with. The nice thing about the carbon is its lack of heat absorption, I have over 2.5 oz of rail covers on my KMR do to heat soak in high round count drills at classes, and secondly to hide the ugly key mod, The carbon would save me extra weight only needing to run a vertical grip and no covers.
So my order is marked back-ordered, but I am locked into the price. I’ll wait patiently I guess.
KAC is releasing an MLOK URX4 this year.