Yeah, the dork probably thought it was tacticool since the 3- Gun competitors did it like that.
I thought about that, but decided to leave the scope I bought for the project and used halo ring fold down sights. I built my 5.56x45 for hunting. Very low profile on the upper, the only rail is on the upper out to the point where the barrel is screwed down. It has an unstained varnished maple stock and fore grip. 18” 8:1 twist heavy barrel. It fells like a rifle, and with #1953 Speer 70 gr. semi-Spitzer SP bullets it shoots like a hunting rifle.
After I finish tuning it, I might put the scope on it. the front optic is 50mm. But I have not yet determined whether I want to do that.