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I thought about it, but be careful. As listed in the description, these are former drill rifles and so the barrels have a pretty good chance of being trashed. Since they raised the price it's not as good a deal. For $400 it's worth taking a chance, but at $500+ you can get one for a similar price at a gun show but with a barrel you can see. I saw 03a3s and 1903s at the past couple of shows for $575-$600 in nice shape with great bores, you could probably talk them down to close to the CMP price.
The rifles at the CMP store at Camp Perry were REALLY beat up. I left empty-handed.