About 10 years ago, CMP, or was it still DCM then..I forget, had a lot of M1D rifles they put up for sale using the lottery system. Your name went in the hat so to speak and if your name was drawn you sent in your paperwork and the rifle showed up at your doorstep a month or 2 later. The rifles were complete packages with scope, flash hider, sling, and cheekpiece all for the dastardly price of $650. They did the same thing for a limited # of M1903, M1903A3 and M1903A4 (sans scope) rifles around the same time. A later lot of M1Ds was sold first come, first served for $1200 or $950 for AL NG SF rifles that were missing an item or 2. Now, pretty much anything of this type goes thru the CMP auction bringing a MUCH higher price.
Everything is starting to jumble together. Didn't they do a 3rd lot of M1Ds in the past few years for around $2K?
Around the same time-period of the M1D lottery, they did a sealed bid-style auction for ~40 M1C's.