After all have fired in pairs, each with each of the other competitors, the totals are added up and the one who has won the most combats is the winner of the medal.
If two or more have an equal score then these again shoot against each other to decide the winner of the medal.
It is not good scoring but quick hitting which wins.
A good hit counts no more than a bad one; a hit in faster time than the other shot, wins.
Winners are not the same men who win at deliberate shooting. Target shots seldom win, it is the lightning quick shot who wins, even if he cannot hit a smaller target than one eighteen inches broad by five feet high.
The whole art of this shooting is to be able to keep from missing by more than three inches either side of your aim, not caring what your trigger-pull is, or how it varies for each shot.
As to elevation, that needs no attention; you cannot miss over or under a five-foot target.
Bring up at top speed putting all the attention on not jerking to the side should your trigger-pull happen to be one of the heavy ones; aim slightly more to the right than the actual centre of the figure to allow for an occasional pull to the left with an extra heavy trigger-pull.
It is the very hard pulling pistols which give almost all the misses.
Men in constant practice in such competitions are in the best training for a duel or for self-protection.