Now that's weird...  so match results aren't important, because they're just good shooters who happen to use something else - and presumably are able to make a non-optimal combination shoot better than other shooters using the ideal combination that shoots better anyway?    If the fast twist is detrimental to best accuracy,why would those top shooters be using it?  After all, they would want any and every edge possible.  I kinda find it hard to believe that they would intentionally handicap themselves and still be able to win.
The goal of serious testing is to be able to shoot better in serious competition.  it is not a goal in itself.  Better BC's and less wind drift do seem a relevant goal.

Yes, and even there we see a tendency towards faster rifling twists - like 1 in 16.  Whereas in the old days 1 in 20 or 22 was considered good enough.   
There's different way to get to a same result, true.
Also - maybe the 45-90 has won lots more LR matches, but consider - it has also lost a lot more, if you look at the bottom of the score sheet...

In other words, if we we remain happy with the status quo, we'd still be shooting smoothbore matchlocks...  Sometimes one has to kick the holy cows.

All good points but as Clarence says, you can't compare schuetzen with LR.  There are similarities but stability is measured to 200 yds. in Schuetzen and 1000 in LR.  The west coast & SW shooters have it over most of the rest of the country in that they can shoot so much longer in the season.  If somebody is shooting 250's with a fast twist .25, it's probably because he shoots every week and has made a study of it.  If somebody won a mid-range match with a fast twist 38-50, it was maybe due to less recoil or his ability to read conditions. (In other words, experience)  I looked over NRA scores from last summer.   In LR Nationals, only one person shot a .40 cal and that was a woman.  Nothing else smaller than a 44 and only one of those.  
If you look at scores from the past years, of both schuetzen and BPTR, you can take the top 6-8 names from each venue, and most of the time those names will always be at the top with just a few position changes whether they're using a fast twist or not. It's because the person knows his rifle and how to read conditions.  Bob

Agree long range is not Schuetzen.

So looking at the 2014 NRA Championship results. BPCartridge Rifle & BP Silhouette rifle,

Were were all the fast twist 38 shooters ? Not a half dozen 38's are listed in all the equipment surveys.

Boats

Top 10 each match Target and Cartridge Rifle Iron and Scope, 30 shooters total National Championships best shooters in the Country

One 38/50 All the rest 45's

Spend money for barrels and molds based on one guys results ?

Not Boats

Au contraire, our Belgian friend.  There is a well known west coast shooter who has been pushing fast twist since I've been in the blackpowder game.  How many shooters jumped on his bandwagon and now have a bunch of safe queens that don't see the light of day?  Let's go over some of his ideas.  "The 32-40" can do everything, even to a 1000 yds".  Using a bullet 1/2 the length of a pencil  and water quenched.  How about this list? The 35-40, 35-55 for silhouette 38-70, 38-72, even the 40-82 for LR.  I have yet to see any of these fast twist hot rods win a large event.  The 38-50 and 40-50 have had some success at distances to 600 yds. but that's what they were designed to do in the beginning.  If you watch some of the for sale sites, there have been quite a few rifles, barrels, and bullet molds for sale that have been designed by this guy.  That tells me a lot.