Figured I would make a more official thread for these mounts now that I am a sponsor. I will be very thorough but if you have any more questions please shoot me a pm or email.
The past few years I've had missed shot opportunities due to the terrain not cooperating for shot positions. I glass off a tripod so I designed an adapter to allow me to quickly put my rifle on my tripod for a shot.
There are saddle type options but they tend to be clunky and heavy. With a stock mounted option it's quick and lightweight. Other options have long lengths that add weight and aren't as strong.
Currently I have a titanium option that is only 1.7" long and mounts to Arca Swiss tripod heads. It's weight is .87 oz.
The second mount option I have is meant for a forward mount and incorporates a picatinny rail section for a bipod and also a sling stud in the rear tucked up behind the arca dovetail. It is made out of 7075 aluminum (more detail on that later) and weighs 1.1 oz.
Both of these designs can be ordered with 10-32 or 1/4-20 fasteners, and I include tee nuts for mounting to your stock. Bolt spacing on the Ti version is 1.2" with one side being slightly slotted to allow for locational error. The arca+pic version will accommodate bolt spacing from 1.2" to slightly over 3".
Currently both mounts are available with a flat bottom, but I can make a run of radius bottom or mounting on more rounded style stocks. With the materials I am using though, a flat bottom mount on a rounded stock will not warp or distort because of use.
For surface finishes, the Titanium mount can be garnet blasted (a full grey) or I can flame anodize them which give a pretty cool multicolor finish. The arca+pic mount comes in a bead blasted aluminum finish.
I enjoy working extremely tough materials and don't like to compromise strength to reduce my costs. This is why I have chosen Titanium, and 7075 aluminum. Most people are familiar with why titanium is so popular for lightweight options. It has a strength to weight ratio of around 250 kN. For aluminum, the industry standard is 6061 aluminum, because it's decently strong and quite affordable. When compared to 7075 though, they are night and day. The strength to weight ratio of 6061 is 115kN and 7075 is 196 kN. So 7075 is on average 1.7 times as strong as 6061.
Playing around with one of my rifles on the tripod using the arca+pic mount, you can use it with the bipod legs deployed and go from a steady shot on the tripod, to prone on the bipod in 5 seconds.
I'm currently designing versions to work with outdoorsmans heads and then manfrotto next.
Pricing for the ultralight Ti arca rail is $65, and the arca+pic is $55, shipped CONUS.
The past few years I've had missed shot opportunities due to the terrain not cooperating for shot positions. I glass off a tripod so I designed an adapter to allow me to quickly put my rifle on my tripod for a shot.
There are saddle type options but they tend to be clunky and heavy. With a stock mounted option it's quick and lightweight. Other options have long lengths that add weight and aren't as strong.
Currently I have a titanium option that is only 1.7" long and mounts to Arca Swiss tripod heads. It's weight is .87 oz.
The second mount option I have is meant for a forward mount and incorporates a picatinny rail section for a bipod and also a sling stud in the rear tucked up behind the arca dovetail. It is made out of 7075 aluminum (more detail on that later) and weighs 1.1 oz.
Both of these designs can be ordered with 10-32 or 1/4-20 fasteners, and I include tee nuts for mounting to your stock. Bolt spacing on the Ti version is 1.2" with one side being slightly slotted to allow for locational error. The arca+pic version will accommodate bolt spacing from 1.2" to slightly over 3".
Currently both mounts are available with a flat bottom, but I can make a run of radius bottom or mounting on more rounded style stocks. With the materials I am using though, a flat bottom mount on a rounded stock will not warp or distort because of use.
For surface finishes, the Titanium mount can be garnet blasted (a full grey) or I can flame anodize them which give a pretty cool multicolor finish. The arca+pic mount comes in a bead blasted aluminum finish.
I enjoy working extremely tough materials and don't like to compromise strength to reduce my costs. This is why I have chosen Titanium, and 7075 aluminum. Most people are familiar with why titanium is so popular for lightweight options. It has a strength to weight ratio of around 250 kN. For aluminum, the industry standard is 6061 aluminum, because it's decently strong and quite affordable. When compared to 7075 though, they are night and day. The strength to weight ratio of 6061 is 115kN and 7075 is 196 kN. So 7075 is on average 1.7 times as strong as 6061.
Playing around with one of my rifles on the tripod using the arca+pic mount, you can use it with the bipod legs deployed and go from a steady shot on the tripod, to prone on the bipod in 5 seconds.
I'm currently designing versions to work with outdoorsmans heads and then manfrotto next.
Pricing for the ultralight Ti arca rail is $65, and the arca+pic is $55, shipped CONUS.
