Fair enough. My 17 Rem is a H&R Ultra Wildcat and although it sports a 1:10 twist it will not shoot 25 grain Vmax at all. They keyhole and I'm lucky to hit an 8.5x11 target twice out of ten shots at a hundred yards.
Actually the bullets I shoot are not even as slippery as the current Hornaday HPs, they are the last of about three thousand of the Hornaday/Remington 25 grain HPs that Remington used to sell bulk packed in lots of 500.
So I would also apply my advice regarding the 204 CZ American to the 17 then, and get more than one opinion. But that being said you would not want a gun like my Ultra Wildcat that weighs about five pounds. You would burn the throat out of it in a good day of shooting.
