I wanted to get a nice gift for my grandfather...so I thought a M1 restored would be nice...FORGET THAT Shhh..er stuff.  The prices on those things have gone into space.  Can anyone tell me why/how they are worth so much now??? I think it's a nice weapon and will still get it, but my question is why are they so much???

M1 Garand rifle?
or
M1 carbine?

M1 Garand, I found some in the $1400-1600 range ones that were service quality were $800-$900...Anyone know of a good place to get one from???

]www.odcmp.com/toc.htm]....buy the real garands here!...

I have seen Garands at gun shows for 500 to 700 for a remanufactured WWII or Korea era rifle.

I saw some real excellent condition garands at a shop here for 700 something.

www.odcmp.com

As posted above, go CMP!  http://www.odcmp.com/Services/Rifles/m1garand.htm
It takes a little paperwork and you have to fulfill some requirements, but you can be assured to get a true service grade rifle in issuable condition.  For $500, or $400 if you don't mind one that was loaned out to the Danish.  No welded recievers or out of spec parts here!  
For a good M1 forum go here:
http://12.4.191.54/cgi-bin/guntalk/config.pl?

If you really want a nice restored and accurized Garand, Orion7 is one of the best.
http://www.m1garand.com/
Good luck.

Quoted: While M1's are brought up.  Is the "new" Garand from Springfield Armory any good?  I think I read, $800 for an all new parts Garand.   Is $800 way too much for a Garand?

I checked one out a gun show this weekend.  It looked good to me.  $800 is reasonable.  If it were an M1A it would cost $1100.

-SS