In 2007 I won an on line auction for a 1999 223 #1V for $500 + $43 FFL and shipping.
If I owned a few hundred guns, that would still be my favorite to shoot.
What every they want for that #1V, pay it, and enjoy shooting that rifle.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps