I've stopped doing 6x5's because it's just not that relevant anymore. The Tikka shoots nearly everything +/- 1/2 an inch. I don't know if you did this month's CoF -
https://nrl22.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/NRL22_OCT_COF_SM.pdf
CCI SV would have hit almost everything except -
1/4" at 35 yards, I would give CCI SV a 75% chance to hit all shots, which I ended up missing 1 of my shots on.
On the paper target where you're scoring by bullseye is 1/2", Of the 6 shots (60pts) that were in prone and not on a unstable barrel, I scored 52 of 60 points. I gave up hitting the bullseye where I should've and scored on the 8 ring a few times. My group on paper was about 2/3", his was a touching clover, easily showing 1/4" at 50 yards. If I had shot my Eley Tenex, I know for certain that I'd grouped a whole lot better than CCI SV. Now that was only an 8 point difference. Oh sorry, his = Vudoo in MPA shooting Center-X.
I ended up losing that match by 30 points, ~ 3 shots. So yeh it could make a difference getting back my 1 miss on the 1/4" target at 35 yards, and maybe making up 8 points on the paper target. But if I'm just doing this for fun, does that warrant a 4x cost from CCI SV?
I guess the same can be said, does the MPA $1000 chassis, provide a 2x value over the KRG Bravo? I don't think so. But there were some stages where I think having an arca barricade stop probably could've given me maybe 2 hits that I missed. I'm not playing for $ so is 2-3 hits per comp worth that $600 investment? Or paying 2x the ammo, worth the 18 points I lost?
I ended up with an overall score of 356 / 500. ~7 hits per 10 shot stage. Out of the 15 misses I had, I'd attribute 2 to ammo, and 2 to maybe having a better rifle with some wonky positional stuff, and the rest were just hard / fundamentals.
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Though, now that I've said all this stuff... I did just buy a new $325 barrel to eek out what realistically might be 20 more points... was that worth almost the cost of a new rifle? Probably not...