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Bag Riding a Foundation Stock [How?]

I have a Foundation Genesis II that I absolutely love, yet, I'd like to be able to also run it in my NEO and with a conventional rear bag. (Let's ignore the why for now; I'm sure there'll be a good reason!)

For the front, the idea would be to fit a 3" bag rider to its ARCA rail. I've found several picatinny to bag rider solutions, though no turnkey solutions for ARCA. I could either attach a pic->ARCA adapter for the above route, or hob out a piece of delrin and mount from there.
Yet, surely there's a 3D printed solution or something out there for sale... If so, it's beyond my googling powers. Thoughts?

Now, the rear bag is where things seem to really get tricky. The Genesis II's rear-end has a flat, 1.5" wide bottom, which quickly flanges out to ~1.75".
Oh, and the stock has a butt-hook cutout to further complicate matters.

I don't know where to even start for this part. Rear bags are pricey items to buy on a lark, let alone there not being many options with 1.5" ear spacing.
Perhaps I'm going about this all wrong and should try and fabricobble something together. It is a 6BR after all, so I don't exactly need a CheyTak sized runway.

Any community wisdom to help solve this predicament would be greatly appreciated.
The less plastic or wood shavings I have to explain away, the better!
 
Was thinking about this the other day. Someone out there should be making front bag riders that are direct mount for ARCA.
You could buy a picatinny bag rider and use these two items to attach it to the ARCA rail:
ARC-CLLArca Clamp (KRG)
KRG-4SLOTKRG 4-Slot Rail (Aluminum)
It is NOT an inexpensive route to take and IMO it will put the rifle riding higher than I like for it to be.
 
I run my foundation mg2, with a Sinclair forend adapter quite a bit. I couldn’t come up with anything for my arca rail that I liked, so I just take it off and use t nuts in the foundation rail.
 
cobble some delrin flat stock, attach to the rail, if your just looking for results, I cobble all my junk but I'm just lookin for results
 
Call josh at protektor and tell him what you got and he will fix you up. Be sure to mention you will be cobbling up a bag rider for the front and need extra height in the rear. If it was me id get him to make a proper bag for the forend without any extra stuff to fit your current rest. I dont like having center of gravity that high adding on accessories
 
There's a lot of ARCA adaptors out there. Remember these are primarily photographic mounts and have been adapted for rifle use. The industry to look at is the video, using modern still/video cameras. There are a few specialist shops, even in the backwaters of New Zealand and often these will stock asian made components, which will do the job nicely. There are certainly "flat plates", designed to attach cameras to ARCA ( remember, rifles use ARCA inverted - it is often mounted on the tripod with the camera on top), which can be drilled to attach a bag rider or already has holes. Check out online camera stores - this quick Google at B&H photo in NYC bought up a host of adaptors -
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?Ntt=arca&N=0&InitialSearch=yes&sts=ma&Top+Nav-Search=.
 

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