Go the CMP route.
Shoot a highpower match with a loaner if need..or an AR at best.
Doesn't matter what you score.
Join the Garand Collectors Association or your local CMP-Affiliated club....for $20 annually.
Fill out CMP paperwork, get it certified. Add $519..shake, stir, bake at 350 degrees for about 5 weeks...if you pass the NICS check....
CMP Garand will arrive via FEDEX Overnight TO YOUR DOORSTEP.
My Service-Grade was a Fall-1943 Springfield with a matching barrel in a rebuilt stock.
The stocks a WWII Tiger stripe!
The 1943 Springfield Bayonet I found fits it perfectly...It shoots flawlessly with 50 year old surplus...and I bet much more accurately with current-match grade ammo.
Oh yeah, it's all US Made and gunsmithed, and checked out, and safety-fired before it left the CMP.
Springfield Inc. today uses an Australian Lithgow Receiver, mixed USGI parts, and a new stock with a price-tag at almost twice the price.
WHY???