Pay for the conversion you can't beat a s&b 5-25. Just my opinion. I've owned and sold a lot scopes in my time, the only scope that I ever regretted selling was the s&b 5-25. After trying to replace it with others, I just went straight back to it.
If a beast and a Dta is what you want then screw it. Do what you gotta do. Obviously if you had the money you would've kept it.
It's a very nice and rear pistol but all it's gonna do is sit in your safe. So get what you are going to use. Also I agree with the above it's too late bro.
Do AI scope mounts come in different hights, my problem is I have an Aw dovetail. I was running AI mount and it looked great with s&b 5-25 and the s&b 3-20 even the s&b 4-16 but it looks so funky with a kahles k312. Looks ridiculous. Pic incoming.