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Roessler Titan Alpha

About the Roessler

The company founder Erich Roessler started his gunsmithing career in Austria at only 15 years of age and was later promoted to department head of weapons assembly, the job he held until 1996, when he founded his own rifle manufacturing company Roessler Waffen Austria. It could be said it became a family-run company after Erich's son joined his father to help him with manufacturing and processing of mechanical weapon components and the joint effort paid off, as the production and sales of their products kept growing. At the end of the 1990s they began working on the development of Titan 6, which was based on an idea of high-quality bolt action hunting rifle, which could be more affordable compared to the other rifles because of high in-house production knowledge of the founder.

Titan 6 was introduced to the market at the start of 2002 and immediately impressed the public and also other rifle producing companies with the quality and precision of the rifle, even more if you take the price into consideration and thus the rifle spread throughout the Europe like a wildfire in the next couple of years. The incoming orders grew so much, that the company had to expand to Kufstein and so did expand their sales of the rifles throughout the whole world. In 2012 the company presented a new model, Titan 16, which had the same characteristics of high quality and affordable price, with a different focus, as this one was more focused on the driven hunt.

Roessler Titan Alpha Rifle Review

Roessler Titan Alpha is a hunting bolt-action rifle with three locking lugs locked directly into the barrel and is therefore considered as a very safe weapon from this perspective. This rifle offers the user the option to change the barrel and thus significantly increases usage flexibility. In addition to RH version, the LH version is also available. The rifle accepts magazines with 2 to 5 rounds. The receiver is made of high-strength anodized aluminium and is available in black or silver colour. The mounting surface has four holes, 2 at the front mounting surface and 2 at the rear mounting surface, just like Titan 3 and Titan 6.

Titan Alpha

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Titan Alpha

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Roessler Titan Alpha is chambered for:

  • 6,5x55 SE
  • .308 Win
  • .30-06
  • 8x57 IS
  • .25-06 Rem
  • .270 Win
  • 7x64
  • 7mm Rem Mag

Barrel length for 7mm Rem Mag is 610 mm long, while for all the other calibres the barrel length is 560 mm.

 

Roessler Titan 3/Titan 6

A: 21.9 mm
B: 110 mm
C: 21.9 mm
BHU: 0 mm
Fi: 6-48
R1: R17
R2: R17

Which rifles have interchangeable mounts

Roessler Alpha shares the same mounting surface with Roessler Titan 3 / Titan 6 and Savage Axis with the same radiuses along with 2 mounting holes at the front end of the receiver and 2 holes at the rear end and the same distance between these two pairs. This means all mounts made for Roessler Alpha will also fit Titan 3 / Titan 6 and Savage Axis and vice versa.

Another rifle with similar mounting surface is SHR 970 of Swiss Arms company (which is now called Sig Sauer). SHR 970 has the same radiuses as Titan Alpha on the mounting surface of the receiver and the same distance between the mounting holes in each group, but the distance between the two groups of holes is shorter. This means that two piece mounts, which are meant to be installed on Roessler Titan Alpha will also fit SHR 970 (and Titan 3 / Titan 6 and Savage Axis) and vice versa, but one piece mounts won’t fit SHR 970, because of the different distance between the groups of holes.

Our recommendation for mounts

Fixed mounts:

The perfect fit for Roessler Titan Alpha would be these MAK rings with bases.

Detachable repeatable mounts:

There is a lot of choice for Roessler Titan Alpha repeatable detachable mounts and you can’t go wrong with any of them but if we would have to point one out it would be ERAMATIC pivot mount.

Picatinny rails:

We would recommend ERA-TAC Picatinny rail, as it is affordable and made of aluminium, which is ideal from mechanical perspective. More about that in our article:

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Introduction

In recent years we can observe that a trend of Picatinny rail has become widespread and global. It is driven by the NATO standardized rails, more commonly known as the Picatinny rail standard. Picatinny rail being the New Jersey Arsenal that developed it in 1995.

These mounting options are revolutionary. The biggest and best advantage being that the Picatinny rail can be used its entire length and not bordered to a few pre-designed slots like for example the Weaver rail standard was before.

The other main advantage is the ease of use and interchangeability. If a product is meant for a Picatinny rail design it will fit all Picatinny-rails, no matter the manufacturer or date of production.

Picatinny/Weaver Rail

Picatinny Rail and Weaver rail profile

Design

The Picatinny rail is almost exclusively crafted from a single piece of metal (in some cases aluminum). In this manner, the axis of the Picatinny rail is perfectly straight and aligned with the axis of the firearm. Therefore the rifle scope which is mounted onto this kind of configuration is certainly aligned with the rifle / gun and the trajectory of the ammunition.

Weaver rail design on the other hand is usually manufactured in two separate pieces, greatly increasing the possibilities for the axis to be crooked, overlapping, and out of line.

It is always harder to align two separate pieces to a third line than it is to align one piece to another. In this way, the lapping of two mounting rings on a single-piece Picatinny rail is no longer required.

The single-piece rail will assure that both rings are perfectly aligned to each other and that no unwished stress is transferred to the riflescope.  

Picatinny compare to Weaver Rail

The Picatinny rail itself is an evolutionary step forward from the older Weaver rail. The main difference between Picatinny rail and Weaver rail is the spacing of the slots. Picatinny rail design has them evenly placed exactly 5.23 mm from one slot to the other, 3 mm deep. For this reason, the mounting options are repeatable and the same as other firearms using the Picatinny rail standard.

Interchangeability was a major driving force in the development of the new standard as different NATO armies need to be compatible with each other.

Weaver rail has 3.8mm wide slots and these slots can be placed anywhere on the Weaver rail and in any number that the producer wished.

Advantages of Picatinny design

A big advantage for using the Picatinny rail design is the ever-present recoil stop. Furthermore, the manufacturing of the rail is not very technically demanding and can be done without the use of state-of-the-art machines which greatly reduces the cost of the finished product, making it very affordable.

The Picatinny rail is easy to mount and usually, this type of configuration does not transfer negative stresses and forces from the fired weapon to the rifle scope.

In addition, the Picatinny rail with its very long useable surface works well for mounting longer rifle scopes or to achieve optimum eye relief.

The durability and toughness are other big pluses for this solution.

Manufacturers of Popular Models

A majority of the Picatinny rings are fixed, but a number of best rated European manufacturers (EAW, MAK,..) have, in recent years, put a lot of effort into the development of detachable ring with100% repeatability, with which it becomes easy to remove the scope from the weapon without the use of tools.

No re-zeroing is needed with such mount options, but these models tend to be expensive. 

Weaver and Picatinny Rings

Picatinny rail and weaver rail share one more thing. It is possible to use the Weaver ring and the Picatinny ring on the Picatinny-rails, but it is usually impossible to use the Picatinny ring on the Weaver base. The reason being the above-mentioned positioning and spacing of the slots.

  • Picatinny mounts have a 5mm recoil stop that goes into the rail slot and since
  • Weaver rail only has 3.8mm wide slots such rings do not fit on Weaver rails.

Due to this reason, the Picatinny-rails are popular and prevailing on the market in recent years and eventually, these options will completely oust the Weaver rail from the market.