Thanks for the tips! I will ditch the extended choke for a flush choke. I think I can remove the rear iron but the front iron looks like it might be welded to the barrel. The rear sight looks like it’s the heaviest one anyways. My concern about losing the irons though is the red dot getting washed out with the light on. Who knows, maybe under the stress of the situation, I wouldn’t have the presence of mind to revert to the irons anyways. I’ll give a try!
The pressure pad for the light won’t fit through the m lock so I could thread it under the mag tube. It is hard wired from the pressure pad to the light cap. I think I would have to cut slits through the hand guard between m lock slots in order to snake the wire through. I’m not sure what that would do to the structural integrity of the hand guard.