Actually most pistols back then were very bad a hitting their targets from range with miss fire, which is one of the reasons why I have Briggs using a pair of sawed off double barrels, usually the paces were shorten down, and my favorite duel was the family guy duels 

one was a duel where they slapped each other when the man was finished counting and said turn.

the second was Willam hole in the torso verses a guy that had a large block like torso, the block guy missed and began moving around back and forth.