I've had my 617 6" for a couple months now and really like it.

It's a very substantial piece of metal; it looks great; I find it very easy to clean; and it equals or exceeds the accuracy that I can achieve with my favorite BuckMark. The only thing I'm not fond of is the very heavy trigger in DA mode (I haven't measured it, but it's the heaviest of any gun I have), which is unpleasant after a while. Thus I tend to shoot the 617 mostly in SA mode.

However, much to my surprise, I have been able to achieve just as tight groupings in DA mode as SA, and it got better the more I practiced.

My particular 617 did come with one unusual characteristic that I described in another post on this board.