Help with my pistol party poker

[Kingcreek]

I’m having 5 guy friends out to my house for a pistol party. Varying levels of skill and experience.
I told them to bring $10 cash each and I’m smoking ribs for after the shoot.
What they don’t know is that it’s not for the food and beverage.
I want to put a deck of cards on the target wall. They will have to put their gun on the table in one of 6 numbered boxes. Roll a dice to shoot a different gun each time.
If the cards are placed close enough to each other, a miss or no card is unlikely.(giving the less skilled shooters a better chance). I’m thinking 7 shots for up to 7 cards, best hand of 5.
Maybe some cards face up? Majority face down?
No upping the bet, just best hand of 5 for the pot.
I have plenty of other paper targets to shoot first.
Beer and ribs with sides after the guns are parked.
I just wanted to throw some friendly competition in.
Any thoughts?

[Tuco]

How early can I arrive?

[Kingcreek]

It’s kind of a casual retirement party for one friend. He won a pistol in a charity raffle and has been out to shoot once last year. Doesn’t own another gun. I don’t want a game that puts him or the other novice at too much disadvantage. Everybody has their own handgun(s) and ammo.

I might bring out the M1a Bush Rifle and some tanerite and let everybody make some noise with it. I have a bunch of range banger ammo for it. It’s fun to watch people shoot it. It’s heavy enough that recoil is not bad but with the Smith Ent. compensator on it you get a big blast and ball of fire.
If we shoot just handguns I might have the 629 Classic and some target loads.

[Tuco]

It sounds wonderful. I can't think of anything to change

[Kingcreek]

I ran the idea past my wife and she says have a “prize” instead of asking them to pony up for something they do t know about. I can see her point.
I am now looking for some kind of prize or something. So far, no ideas.

[Kingcreek]

I laid out a deck of cards spaced 1/2” apart and played with some face up. It looks like 12 face up cards especially if it’s outside border would make it interesting. If a 3 is showing and a shooter already has 2 3s he might be tempted to go for a known card but on the outside if they miss it’s 1 less card towards the best 5. Another shooter could also try to “claim” a card and deny it to another.

[griz]

They do that in side matches at Cowboy Action shooting.  It's a fund raiser, entry fee is minimal, as many entries as you want, and you get five shots at a deck stapled face down on a backer.  Best hand wins (IIRC) half the entry fees, the rest for charity.  The one I shot in had the cards spread fairly far apart, so misses did happen.  Even two shots on one card happened.  But the range was very short so hits were easy for any competent shooter.  It's fun.