I suppose that will work for a while but, and please don't take this as criticism of your work because it's not, it won't last. So far on the nine I've dealt with the rear sight mount was so feebly sweated onto the tube that I barely had to give it a twist by hand to break it off. They're all inconsistent, though, so maybe you got one that is more stable.I ended up having to weld rails onto the ones I wanted scoped.