Please excuse my ignorance in this.
Does no one offer an standard front sight base without the front sight?
From my perspective, I would gladly pay for this. Otherwise, my options seem to be to take to an armorer/mail to ADCO to shave down my existing front sight base or put on a low profile gas block with a set screw (not that this is a problem). I would happily choose to re-use my pin holes for an option that does not involve any more modifications to the barrel.
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