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

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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

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By the way good luck with your neighbor's Cobra, sounds like a great gun

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