Want a Wild West six-shooter with lots of history? You probably can’t afford a genuine made-in-the-1840s Colt Walker, if you’re like most of us. But, a new offering from Cimarron means you can get something that will look just like the real deal.

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The Colt Walker, aka the Walker Colt, was the original big-bore revolver, a horse pistol built for fighting on the frontier. Designed by Samuel Colt with input from Captain Samuel Hamilton Walker of the Texas Rangers, the .44-caliber cap-and-ball revolver started production in 1847. About 1,100 were built; most went to the Republic of Texas for military use, with about 100 made for promotional purposes or civilian sales.

Compared to Colt’s earlier five-shot .36-caliber Paterson revolver, the Walker revolver was a real hand cannon. Contemporary accounts say the Walker was effective out to 100 yards. With a powder charge of 60 grains per cylinder and a nine-inch barrel, it was the most powerful revolver ever made until the .357 Magnum cartridge was developed.

Given these revolvers’ limited production numbers, as well as their hard use in frontier fighting, few survive. Very few people would want to shoot one of the remaining examples over concerns of safety, not to mention the potential ruination of an expensive investment. Lucky for us, the Italian firearm reproduction industry now makes copies of the 1847 Walker revolver out of modern materials. Cimarron is bringing a new limited-edition version of these revolvers that are built as replicas of the original made-for-the-Texas-Rangers production run.

Here’s how their website describes the new revolvers:

Celebrating the 1st 200 years of the Texas Rangers, Cimarron is producing a very special run of Walker revolvers duplicating the exact total production of the 1100 originals manufactured in 1846 by Samuel Colt. Each Walker revolver is marked as exact as possible to the original and have been aged to look exactly as a used original. They will be made in groups exactly as the originals were made, and marked with company and issue numbers as were the originals, starting with Company C.

So it looks and feels like the original, but the asking price is $869 instead of many thousands of dollars. For more details, check out Cimarron’s website here.