Strange question--carnival shooting gallery guns?

I'm another of the older crew who remembers when they were .22s. In fact, many years ago my late father managed to locate an old Browning auto .22 short. It had lain on the carnival counter for so many years the checkering was worn off one side of the stock!

I still have that little .22 short in my collection; it shoots no more than "okay", but is a blast mostly because of many decades of memories.

One year, I bagged two giant teddy bears in the same day. Got lucky on one, then realized if I got one for my niece, I had to get one for my nephew as well. Took about 2 more tries to do that. I've never done it again.

So... what are the ballistics like on one of the shoot the star guns?
I always figured it would be a blast to shoot something besides paper.

I tried the shoot the star game a few times, my girlfriend has a giant yellow duck now. Great fun for kids. The worst I saw was overseas, the game had a tube loaded spring piston rifle you had to cock each shot. The targets were nylon string. One end was tied to a spring overhead, the other to something expensive like a massive wad of cash or Nikon camera. Break the string to win. The trick is to find an almost broken string and get lucky. I dropped over $100 on that game, no wins but I saw other people get lucky. I was settled on that camera. The staff was not happy that I could hit the string everytime but it was a new string....

Last time the fair came around I got sooooo close. Took my time and worked to points of the star and then circled as mentioned above. The barker saw I had a plan and started chatting me up while I was shooting to distract me.

He laid down the cut out peice of paper and rubbed it flat. A single red fiber no bigger than a freckle denied me a giant tweety bird

I'm not bitter though. I've been saving my pennies for the Fair this year!

I hated those things. I think I played the "shoot out the star" game around five times. I almost did it once. In fact, I thought I had won, but there was just the very tip of one of the star points remaining. It was like the size of the tip of a needle. I was po'ed! Never played again. Those things spewed the pellets so erratically that I seriously doubt a professional shootist could do it without getting extremely lucky.