Apple Shot

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Your volunteer stands down range with an apple on their head. Shoot the apple off. Every apple you hit moves you to the next stage, where you find a less accurate firearm in your hands: from a 12.7 mm rifle on a bipod at 300 m, through hunting rifle, carbine, lever-action and pistols, to buckshot and a flintlock musket.

How to play

• Aim by moving the mouse (click Aim first to capture it), or drag on a touch screen. Arrow keys make fine adjustments.
• Hold your breath with Space, Shift, the right mouse button, or the Hold button. It steadies your aim for a few seconds; hold it too long and your aim gets worse.
• Fire with a click, Enter or F, or the Fire button.
• The shot goes where your sights are when you click. With a scope it goes exactly there; with other guns it lands close by, spread by the gun and your trigger pull.
• Wind buffets your aim: the sight gets pushed downwind and wobbles with the gusts. The flags and the wind reading show strength and direction.
• Nerve: a clean miss costs one nerve. Run out and the run ends. Hit the volunteer and it ends at once. Every fifth apple gives a nerve back.
• Earn brass from every run and spend it on permanent upgrades: steadier hands, deeper lungs, a smoother trigger, steadier aim in wind and extra nerve.