i saw a couple of really slucky mismash garands in cabellas last fall, at about 2k a piece. they may have been dreaming.a lot of the current garands in recent years are coming home from other parts such as greece, etc. Then there are the danish guns with the VAR barrels which are really good shooters.
If you didn't really want the historical aspects etc per se, cmp was selling new build on a real garand reciever i think for about 1100 or so. but new wood, new barrel, new park, and everything working right.


THE BIRTH PLACE OF GERONIMO