Rail mount options/opinions

Gidday Guys - I have a couple of rifles that "cross-over" from hunting duties to casual level PRS shooting. One is a laminated stock, the other synthetic

It would be good for range shooting to have some ACRA rail to use but it's how to install it. Put it on permanently - is it a finger biting, clothes ripping curse like picatinny? How long, for competing the full length of the fore-end is probably best?

Maybe use UIT/ Anschutz rail (which is inlet flush with the stock) and adapter nuts to attach the ACRA rail as required?

Maybe a combination rail, mostly ACRA but with a short picatinny at the outboard end?

Thoughts?

sounds tacticool....

That's what I'm trying to avoid on my hunting rifle!

I Think you could mount an arca rail quite flush with stock by inletting below where the rail would sit. Nothing like a Picatinny which sits proud of the stock.
rails like this. https://ozarkprecisionnz.co.nz/produ...nt/arca-rails/

An arca shouldn't be too finger biting/catchy. some of the nicer ones have a smoother edge that isnt too bad to hold. I have a henderson one that i dont use but has a smooth finish.

It only needs to go full length if youre planning on clipping in to a tripod. i mainly use the front end of my arca for bipods or clipping on a plate bag for tripod rear in PRS.

depends on the stock for mounting. making an anchutz rail sounds overkill surely there is a way to drill and bolt it on?

Hope that helps anyway.

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Originally Posted by Micky Duck

sounds tacticool....

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I’m pretty sure it’s an adaptation from the camera world isn’t it, so hardly tactical.
More evolutionary or adaptive.

I think the Mtn bipod fella has an Arca attachment bipod in prototype phase…..

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Originally Posted by zeropak

I Think you could mount an arca rail quite flush with stock by inletting below where the rail would sit. Nothing like a Picatinny which sits proud of the stock.
rails like this. https://ozarkprecisionnz.co.nz/produ...nt/arca-rails/

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From what I can see online the Ozark Henderson brand ones are favored by US hunters ( but that still doesn't mean much haha)

i epoxy fill the edges on my arca when fitting to the tikka 260. made for a flush smooth side. used the 2 sling mounts in the stock to fit it. made a 300mm and a 200mm.