The air turned pricklier than a cactus out on the prairie at Hunstanton before the band went silent, like the honky tonk player stops and dives for cover in the Westerns when the lead's about to fly.

I reckon this might just end in trouble... A cheating cowboy before he got caught in the act (Image: Chris Bishop)

You bin messin' with my man..? Well you'd better be ready to draw lady (Image: Chris Bishop)

Back to back, the rivals get set for a dual over a cowboy's heart (Image: Chris Bishop)

A crowd gathered in the normally placid seaside resort, where the crime rate is normally lower than a snake's belly to watch the ladies draw their six guns before both missed and decided to beef up their firepower with a pair of shotguns.

Then they agreed there was a better target sipping whisky at the bar, before the cheatin' varmint settled his tab by trading in his spurs for wings.

A cowboy swops his spurs for wings in a cloud of gunsmoke (Image: Chris Bishop)

A stray bullet holed a barrel on the bar, just like in the Westerns (Image: Chris Bishop)

As the smoke faded, the two women agreed a........

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