No I don't plan to mount them that far forward, I like the longer sight radius. That being said the picture above isn't a really accurate depiction of the sight picture that I have when using the sights, in fact with the front sight mounted at the end of the KMR 13 and the rear sight at the back of the receiver the front sight hood nearly fills up the aperture. If a person wanted to mount these on the handguard I'd probably advise having the rear aperture opened up because as it sits it is between the small A2 aperture and large one so it could create some difficulty in picking up a good sight picture if they are too close together.