Hi Jim, gave Andy Horvath a 17-2 and he's making it into a 32 long. Cutting the bbl to 5" and using a Weigand interchangeable front sight base. Re-bluing the gun and calling me to pick it up. Hopefully it will shoot good. I have a B square scope base that I could attach to it to shoot to eliminate the old eye sight. It would help to see how good it shoots. Larry