The challenge is to finish the first challenging stage as quickly as possible.
Getting captured takes so long that it has no use at all...
For the rest it's indeed a matter of spending bullets wisely in time.
UPDATE: I completely missed that I had a missed shot in my previous run... so updated with an improved version.
Noxxa: Replaced submission file with an improved version by the author.
Noxxa: Judging.
Noxxa: Accepting for the vault.
Ilari: Dumped, encoding.