Just went to a gun show in east-central Indiana today and saw at least 4 M1 garands under 800 dollars, and an M1a at $765. Had I had the money, I would have picked up the M1a.
Seems like prices are verrrrry good as of late, and if you are in the market to either get started with your weapon preps, or if you need to do some last minute weapon preps, I'd start checking out these shows.