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I have found one or two but they didn't really appeal to me, I have the models, and terrain, I just need a ruleset good, easy enough to understand and fun (and preferably free) lol

Blackwater Gulch is good. I also play Legends of the Old West by Warhammer Historical, although you will be hard pressed to find rules for that at a cheap price since it is now OOP.

I recommend "Aces and Eights".
Aces and Eights is an excellent Old West RPG with a highly detailed combat system. We use the combat system from the game for Old West skirmishes in my club, and find it works well. Combat in the game is broken down into one tenth of one second rounds. This sounds horrible, but in practice it actually works quite well and we've played games with up to ten players, each controlling a single character.

The best part about it, is the "shot clock" system that is used to determine hits and locations. The worst part about it is that I seem to get shot in the head every time I play a game!

Here are some tutorial videos to show what I'm talking about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zaZ0vBVTpI&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoKeLwqfIG8&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXKNb54fax4&feature=relmfu

TR
Who shot his wife in the chest with a shotgun the last time he played A&8!

Blaze of Glory is wicked fun, especially if you have more players and somebody willing to referee for called actions and things.

I recommend Blackwater Gulch also!

I've heard great things about Blaze of Glory, and I'd like to take a look at the rules, but I haven't been able to track them down. I may have just panicked and totally failed at internet searching that day.

The problem that I am having is that "Blaze of Glory" is a phrase used in the titles of many, many wild west games. In terms of miniature games, there's "Six-Gun Sound: Blaze of Glory," and "Legends of the Old West" which some helpful individual apparently paired with the phrase "Blaze of Glory." Is 'Blaze of Glory' one of these games, a different game with a "Blaze of Glory" subtitle, or a game simply titled "Blaze of Glory?"

 Necros wrote:
I recommend Blackwater Gulch also!

I am going to throw down on this one too!

Gutshot, by hawgleg was pretty in depth.

http://www.hawgleg.com/whatsGutshot.asp


Its pretty detailed. (thats putting it mildly.)

 Grot 6 wrote:
Gutshot, by hawgleg was pretty in depth.

http://www.hawgleg.com/whatsGutshot.asp


Its pretty detailed. (thats putting it mildly.)

Thanks for linking to that. I'm working on a wild west game myself and I've ordered a copy to have a look at a decent (looking) rule set.