Cobra Question

Photos, photos my friend. Not making light of the op's knowledge but, like I stated, mint to one person may not be mint to you. Someone may say mint and the gun looks mint but the gun has aftermarket stocks on it and that person may not know that because the stocks has Colt medallions and he thinks they are original. It may have been refinished and he doesn't know that either. A lot of buyers don't know this and is why they come to forums. There are a lot of members here who have great knowledge of these Colt revolvers. Most of them won't post a value without seeing pictures and maybe that's why there is not more posts. I'm sure there would be more than one response on a value if there were pics. If a person says mint and the gun isn't mint then sure, it's on him. It is what it is but why would someone ask the value of a mint gun if it was 80%. Again, I'm not saying the op doesn't know what he's talking about because I'm sure the gun is mint. I've gotten pm's saying they agree about having pics. It doesn't matter if one agrees with me or not though because I'm giving my opinion like every forum member does when they reply to a post. That's what a forum is for. If he can't get pics of the Cobra then so be it but, I'm sure if he asked him, I don't know the value of this Cobra and would like some guys on the Colt Forum to see it I'm sure he wouldn't mind a few pics. No serial numbers have to be used or viewed. If he says no then so be it.

My point is members here like to see good pics and his thread would probably get more than one response which would benefit the op and help him to determine a close value of the gun. So hotrod150, why don't you give a value on the gun without seeing it and if the op does get pics and posts them, lets see if your value will be the same after you see pics. On Colt-SL's response he states depending on condition. At "truly mint" expect it to be on the larger end of the spectrum so his posted value could very well change to much more than $500-$750 once he sees it. This way he can determine if it's truly mint and give his opinion. He may see dishing, rounded edges, aftermarket stocks, Non period correct stocks, a buggered screw and a number of other things that someone else might not notice. And oh, the above pic is just to throw a little humor in the mix and not to criticize anyone.

I personally don't understand why the OP got so agitated? I actually think I got an infraction for much less imo on another forum lol. I have seen many people post the various "thread useless without pic jokes" everywhere. I have had it done to me several times and just laughed. Chris (mafd2) has always been eager to help everyone on here and has ALOT of knowledge about Colts and probably one of the absolute top on Original post war Colt Stocks.
I will say I have been collecting guns for awhile myself (not 45 years by a long shot considering I'm that not old lol) and most consider me a "condition or NIB freak", and of the guns I've seen advertised as Mint, usually only about 10% are lol. Some are horribly misadvertised. So I can understand Chris's concerns and trying to give an accurate estimate. Some just don't like to give an estimate without pics to try to save the OP from getting burned on possibly a non-original/not correct gun. Actually I've seen alot of respected people and even books state Mint as 99%/+ (99% or better). That is why I like to use the percentages instead, and look for those "100% NIB" guns. Actually no gun is truly perfect imo if you get the magnifying glass out (which some do lol), but I'm not that bad. If you give a gun a good going over inside and out, you will always find a little something eventually, but most guns out of the factory weren't absolutely flawless either, like having just a tiny blue spot worn at or inside the crane or ejector rod, light turn line on cylinder, etc. All the time I see NEW Colts, never sold at retail, lying on tables at gun shows by dealers or in showcases at gunshops which I would not buy because of a "light handling mark" or what I usually call a scratch.
HOWEVER, the OP says the gun is 100% so I think that is enough to go by as long as the gun is 100% factory correct and he knows that. I think Colt-SL nailed it, probably $650 to maybe $750 tops imo without the Original Box. In the Colt world, the original box means so much, which is why the POS's sell all those trashy fake boxes for 100 plus a pop. Thankfully it hasn't started in the S&W (my other passion too) market much, other than a bunch of fake labels floating around on original boxes, just not original to that gun.
By the way good luck with your neighbor's Cobra, sounds like a great gun.

big_gus said:

I get the nod for worst grammar in this thread for sure .

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Hear ya go. Don't get mad now!

Yea Josh there was a little bad grammar on the pic but I didn't write it. I got it off of the S&W forum. Don't shoot the messenger lol. Maybe I should've used this one