Losing at the Shoot Out the Star Carnival Games

We have earlier discussed how all carnival games are fixed. They can be won, but generally the money you put in is much more than the value of the prize you get out. This year St. Anthony's Italian festival(warning crappy flash interface, for a festival?) had no Wack-a-Mole! and no Bowler Roller! It was a fun carnival game desert. So I tried the Shoot Out game and then got out of there.

To win the Shoot Out the Star BB gun game you have to remove all of the red star from the card. Every single bit of it. This turns out to be hard to do. I am sure I will have commenters tell their winning Shooting Star stories, but for my part, I always leave some bit of red.

This one has a lot of red gone, but a lot left.










This one almost has it all gone, but almost only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades and thermonuclear warfare.









I know to never use the sight because they are all messed up. What's the secret? Does anyone know?