Honor of Duelling?
A little background on duelling, to distinguish what happens here from the practice in the antebellum South and other areas. The code duello set very specific rules for conduct of a gunfight. The aggrieved party went and often challenged his adversary either by strikimg him with a glove, or throwing the glove on the ground in front of him. "Throwing down the gauntlet." The challenged party had the option to accept or decline. If the duel went off, both parties would have their seconds inspect the weapons. Once all was accepted, the parties were positioned back to back and the person officiating would count off ten steps, at which point the adversaries would turn and fire. One shot, that was all. Because the weapons employed were .69 caliber smoothbore single shot pistols. Also, the challenged party would have the option to apologize to his challenger for whatever wrong he committed to cause the duel to begin with. Also, if one party fired and the other did not, the party not having fired had the option to decline to fire his weapon.
Now look at what we have here. No option not to accept, usually a vast disparity in weapons, and what seem to be entirely random results. If you get jumped, but your town doesnt have a mortician, you dont even get the option to go get your money back. This practice, although colorful and in some respects reflecting of the flavor of the old west should be called something other than duelling, because as above the two practices bear scant if any resemblance to each other