I've owned 4 different .17s. Couple TC barrels, a 700 BDL, and an LVSF. All I have at the moment are a mountain of components and the take-off LVSF barrel. My LVSF wasn't all that accurate though it was the first of the 4 to do decent-ish with the Hornady bullet, the others preferred the Remington bullet by a lot. Mostly shot VMAXes in the last contender and the LVSF.
I have an action now. I have the LVSF stock. I don't know if it is worth re-mounting that factory barrel, it's probably half gone and wasn't all that accurate, but it's a good template for a replacement.
In the BDL, my load was 25.2 grains of IMR 4320 with the 25 grain Remington bullet. The manuals have backed off of that a good bit now. I shot some of the best groups of my life with that bullet in that gun.
