While I agree with your latter statement of a slower landing approach, I don't necessarily agree with the first "lawn dart" part. Moving the CG back 1/2" would still keep me in the recommended CG range indicated on the plans.

Our flying field is very small, if fact the standing joke at our club is, "If you can fly at our field, then you can fly anywhere"... My final approach is with the throttle cut gliding in, and I do flare at the end to bleed off speed, but this Tiger is still coming in just a tad too fast. I'm comparing its landing speed to the other two Tigers that I've had. I think many fliers building or assembling their planes (ARF's) set their CG to one spot within a range that is recommended on the plans and don't experiment by moving it a bit forward or back . They just live with how the plane handles and make adjustments to their flying style.