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Originally Posted by CH4
You are correct
Other than the bore size, the 17-6 and 16-4 are identical and came with square butt combat stocks
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Not exactly correct...
More than half the 17-6’s have the combat stocks and full lug barrel, but the first “likely more than one third” of the 17-6 looked exactly like the 17-5 and 14-most, with the standard ribbed target barrel and goncalo alves target stocks.
My 17-6 is of 1988 vintage, a BBJ-prefix, and it is the earlier, more traditional style.