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Average length of time required to obtain "factory letter" from Cody after submitting ser. no.
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clarence
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October 20, 2019 - 1:53 am
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And Colt, too, if anyone happens to know. 

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Cody letters take about a month.

Bob

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The Colt Archives takes significantly longer than Cody.  Our last Colt letters took about 6 months and we’ve had some take as long as 8-9 months.

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The three I have gotten in the last year have been right at or near 30 days

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Mark Douglas said
The Colt Archives takes significantly longer than Cody.  Our last Colt letters took about 6 months and we’ve had some take as long as 8-9 months.  

Not outrageous; beyond outrageous!  Considering, especially, how “little” these swindlers charge for their “services.”  I’ve been waiting “only” three & half months for one for a modern S&W revolver.  It’s a con game, but the chief blame falls on the factories which sold their records to the con artists who now control them.

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October 20, 2019 - 12:58 pm
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Whaaat?

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The Colt letters I got last year took over 4 months.  The 3 Colt letters I am still waiting for are now about 5 1/2 months.  They are more than 2 times the cost of a Cody letter too.  Cody is busy and there is nobody at Colt that knows how to research the archives anymore.  

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i’m at a little over a month wait for my Cody letter.   The last one i got was delivered 1 month to the date of payment.  

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