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If you wanted to spend $639, you could buy another Canon hood for the 500 II, and cut it down to the length you want. If you work carefully, the carbon fiber should cut OK with a fine pitch hack saw blade. You may even be able to take the rubber rim off the hood and glue it back on the front of the cut down hood. But that is not something I would ever spend the money for to carry either of my big lenses.
If the main concern is for when the lens is in the backpack, you probably should make some protector that can live in the backpack, and that accepts the front of the lens. A padded flat plate with a rim or edge of some sort sticking up to keep the lens centered may be easy to build. Or just a padded flat plate that the front of the lens rests against would protect the front, but could stay in the backpack as you extract the lens. If you work it right, any plate type solution should function either with the normal hood on and stored in the reversed position, or with the hood not even on the lens.
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