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I was in the market for a new gun preferably a .357 or a .44 that has the old style look like a colt 1860a authentic cowboy gun. I would like something with a 6" barrel or longer. The only things I could find were replica cap guns. I'm not even sure if they make anything like this but I think it would be cool to own one.
 
The only thing I can think of is a Cimmeron 1871 trabsition revolver. I'm not sure what calibers it comes in.
 
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Not sure if they make them in a 6 inch but the New Vaquero has the look you want.
 
I was in the market for a new gun preferably a .357 or a .44 that has the old style look like a colt 1860a authentic cowboy gun. I would like something with a 6" barrel or longer. The only things I could find were replica cap guns. I'm not even sure if they make anything like this but I think it would be cool to own one.
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What gun's do you own?
 
??? Most "old west" style guns were/are Single Action (SA). (Yes there were a few DA that didn't go over well--mostly due to design/execution flaws "back then").

Also to the other poster's question--critical, again are you wanting an old Colt-style gun or one with aged or antiqued finish? There are a gazillion models/manufacturers of the former--among them, in no particular order:
-- Colt itself with its time-honored SAA design, priciest. (No antiques made, just new look)
-- Uberti (sold through "itself," Cimarron and Taylor's)..also antiqued versions sold.
-- Beretta (actually made by Uberti, a subsidiary now of Beretta)
-- Pietta (sold through EMF)
-- US Firearms (USFA) - second priciest. Also antiqued versions sold....and of course
--Ruger Vaquero (to 2005 and New Vaquero (2005 to present). Different internal workings from the Colt-based designs, and very hardy pieces. No antiued models, just new-look.

...and several, as suggest above, of the "aged or antiqued" look, including Cimarron's ( www.cimarron-firearms.com ) Uberti-made "original finish" available on several of their models, including the Model P ('73) and earlier replicas of percussion and (modern-modified) cartridge conversion guns (51s, 72s etc).

You mention 1860--do you literally mean 1860? Otherwise, the most popular "old west" gun over the years is the Colt 1873 SAA design. Remington joined the fray with its 1875 and 1890 models, and Smith & Wesson with its break-open "Scofield" model. These were all preceded by 1847 Colt Walkers, 1851 "Navy" and 1860 "Army" Colts, 1858 Remington, 1872 "open top" Colt, etc, etc. BUT the '73, aka Model P, aka Single Action Army or SAA, aka, Peacemaker, etc, is far and away what you see most (and 99% of TV and movies have portrayed).

EDIT: all of the cartridge guns fire modern-day (post 1900 or so) "smokeless" powders OR old-timey blackpowder. Just 'cause some like to shoot the BP--especially in old west reenactments--doesn't mean that modern-era guns can't shoot smokeless and is what most do. If you see a modern-day Colt SAA-design/replica gun that's described as "BP frame," it simply means it has some design features that are characteristic of that pre 1900 era gun.
 
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I was in the market for a new gun preferably a .357 or a .44 that has the old style look like a colt 1860a authentic cowboy gun.
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Double action for sure nothing black powder
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One or the other my friend!
Colt had some double action revolvers in 1877, and on but I don't know if anybody makes a modern replica. May be some out there somewhere, but I think they would be very hard to find.

1860's Colts were cap and ball black powder guns. The first cartridge Colt revolver was the 1873, and they didn't call it a Single Action Army for nothing!
Many modern replicas, and near replicas of that "Cowboy" style are available. You might want to rethink the double action thing.
 
??? Most "old west" style guns were/are Single Action (SA). (Yes there were a few DA that didn't go over well--mostly due to design/execution flaws "back then").
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As noted, if the goal is something that looks like an 1860 Colt, it won't be double action. The 1860-vintage Colts were still open-top frames. Any that take metallic cartridges are copies of conversions, because Colt's first cartridge revolver (other than a brief run on factory conversions) was the 1873 Single Action Army (which was, of course, single action).

The Italians offer clones of the open-top conversions, but I don't know if they are offered in either .357 Magnum or .44 Magnum. I doubt it -- I don't think an open-top frame would stand up to either load.
 
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First off i want to thank all of you who commented yall have been a big help


On the gun above i have some questions its the 1858 new army conversion so that would be a single action cartridge revolver or black powder
 
The most useful/least maintenance gun with that older cap & ball/percussion look is the 1872 Open Top--in .44 Special (in modern Italian replicas). I don't CAS, where the '72 gained its re-newed popularity--but I believe with its lack of a topstrap (as the name implies) folks ony shoot BP or low-power .44 loads in this as well.
Clint Eastwood used an 1851 Navy cobbled up conversion that allowed him to shoot blanks in one of this "trio" of Spaghetti Westerns (Good Bad and Ugly). The other two movies he shot a 5-1/2" 1873 Colt SAA (or Italian replica thereof). Cimarron sells versions of both as their "Man With No Name" guns. The modernized 1851 Conversion shoots .38 Specials, while the '73 shoots .45 Colt (other nearly identical 73 models are available in .38/.357, .44-40 and .44 Special as well).

None of the older style conversions shoots .357 as far as I know. .44 Mag is a limiting factor as well on the Italian western replicas, only available from Uberti as the 1873 style "Callahan"--with a 6" barrel (unique length for an SAA-based sixgun) and unfluted cylinder--characteristic of the old cap & ball revolvers as well. This gun also is unique in marrying the longer 1860 grip to the "regular" '73 SAA cylinder frame.
 
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On the gun above i have some questions its the 1858 new army conversion so that would be a single action cartridge revolver or black powder
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YES!

Not meant to insult, but you really need to do much more research!

The 1858 Remington was a cap and ball black powder revolver where loose black powder, and ball were loaded into each chamber of the cylinder. A cap was then placed on the nipple on the back of each chamber. Is that what you mean by black powder?

The conversions made at later dates converted the revolver to shoot black powder cartridges like the 1873 Colt Single Action Army. Still they were black powder guns.

Today's replicas of cartrige revolvers are made to shoot smokeless powder cartriges, but you won't find a conversion replica in 357 or 44Mag.
 
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