If attacked by several men at the same time, take a fresh one for every shot, hit or miss, and then you can begin to take only those not already hit.
This is the only way to keep the lot off and prevent being attacked by the rest while you are fighting one.
Get your back against a wall or something if possible so that they can only get at you from in front.
Taking a fresh one for each shot is my experience in big-game shooting when you come on a lot which are all shootable.
If you pick out one and he does not drop to your shot and you pump several more shots into him till he does drop, you may find afterwards that you have wasted shots on an already dying animal, and let others within range escape.
As an instance of doing everything wrong and being praised for it, the following quotation from a daily paper is hard to beat.
The writer of the article evidently approves greatly of a woman firing at random into the darkness when she hears a suspicious noise.
Even if the noise was made by burglars outside, she was just in the best position in the lighted window, to get killed. An innocent man might plead he was shooting her in self-defence.
A pleasant neighbourhood to live in when a woman shoots at random into the night when she hears a noise!
Below is the article in question omitting names. The passers-by as well as the lady must have had an “exciting experience.”