Old West: Shotgun pellets and missed targets

[Crakkerjakk]

Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

They missed for all possible mechanical purposes. This is the GURPS equivalent of arguing that a successful, damaging attack in D&D doesn't need to actually represent being injured, which never actually worked over there and is even worse in GURPS.

Yeah. I cannot state too strongly how opposed I am to the idea that "hit" or "miss" are abstract terms instead of what people actually mean when they say hit or miss in English.