As long as it is accurate enough for what you want to do, you’ll be fine. Unless you’re shooting bench rest or F-Class, getting 1 MOA or better is good enough for just about any other type of target shooting. I went down a long rabbit hole of “tinkering” with gear and reloading until it became a “chore” to go to the range and try to get consistent “one hole” groups. Once I finally convinced/reminded myself that going to the range is supposed to be fun, I settled on a factory 6.5 Creedmoor and .308 round that got me consistent (+/-) 1 MOA groups from prone and the tripod, I stopped chasing the reloads and settled in with the gear that I had
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I find that mastering difficult tasks is fun, once mastered or close enough, you have achieved your goal, and then, when you can do it on a regular basis, it just becomes work. I was in love with my precision SPR for a long time because it took me a good while to learn to shoot the 0.3 MOA it is capable of. I got a lot of mileage out of that “affair”. Now it gets shot maybe twice a year, that’s on a good year. There were years I didn’t shoot it at all.
Don’t knock tinkering too much either. Yeah, it can get expensive, but only if you let it. Tinkering is essential in learning about firearms in general, but you can get real specific too. Like me with triggers for a while, I was messing with various single and two stage triggers. Understanding how they work, what they are made of, how to improve them, to me, that was fun.
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All good points. I don’t knock tinkering at all because, as you said it’s how you learn. My big mistake was mentally adding up all of the money spent before I settled into a build. I went through a bunch of custom builds and modifications to those custom builds (and optics , so many optics (and rings and mounts) 
) before I found a found a factory built “precision” rifle and optics .308/6.5 combo that fit my 80% use case (all of that tinkering was probably necessary for me to figure out what my “why” is).
I went through the eternal tinkering and upgrading back n the day with radio controlled cars, I used to race RC-10s. At some point, the only original component was the chassis, lol. RC10s were the “stripped lower” for racers at the time. All the swapping of tires, shocks, suspensions, controllers, servos, motors, gears, etc etc, it added up fast.
HaHa Scorpio. I’m going through that with my grandson now.