MLok weight attachment

[Bigragu]

I grabbed this photo from one of the members selling his Panthera gun. Is it my eyes, or can someone tell me if for sure when installing an MLock weight onto an ARCA rail, that it indeed renders attachment of an ARCA ball head useless at the portion of the rail directly under the weight, as this picture shows?

Or do the weights(two, opposing)protrude out sideways enough that the rail will easily drop onto a fully open ARCA ball head without the need to jossle the rail onto place on the ball head?

 

[qball]

Sure looks that way to me.

 

[Kgphotos]

I made my own weights that attach to the Mlok on my Saber tactical chassis for my Crown. I made the weights short enough that they don’t interfere with the arca rail. I made a post about them a while back. I’ll look for it and post a link later.
Kenny

 

[Kgphotos]

Here is that post where I made the weights.

Adding weights to rifle’s forend to increase stability.

I have been wanting to try adding some weights to the Saber Tactical chassis on my Crown MK2. I thought it might make the rifle a little more stable on the bags. The chassis has M LOK slots available for this purpose. The weights I found online were all more expensive than I expected. I just...

www.airgunnation.com

Kenny

 

[Smok3y]

I grabbed this photo from one of the members selling his Panthera gun. Is it my eyes, or can someone tell me if for sure when installing an MLock weight onto an ARCA rail, that it indeed renders attachment of an ARCA ball head useless at the portion of the rail directly under the weight, as this picture shows?
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Or do the weights(two, opposing)protrude out sideways enough that the rail will easily drop onto a fully open ARCA ball head without the need to jossle the rail onto place on the ball head?

Looks that way to me too, but I canNOT confirm personally. There was another view somewhere that has an ARCA bipod attached and it looked like it would probably interfere as well.

Looking at the Saber Rail, their rail appears to have the Mloks higher so the weights won’t interfere, and they were probably designed with that rail in mind.