I got a H&R last year as a Service Grade less wood, $325 delivered. I swear it looks like it's never been fired! Every single part is HRA correct or recognized sub, throat erosion measures zero. I put it in a new walnut stock it looks like a brand new rifle, albeit 45 years old. Shoot like a house on fire.
That's the CMP lottery, not everyone's is that nice. I got a Danish Garand last year, every part was from a different mfgr - VAR barrel, Winchester receiver, Springfield bolt, BM & BR (Italian) parts scattered throughout, European beech stock. Rifle looked like it had been dragged down a rocky road from Schleswig-Holstein to Copenhagen behind a speeding Volvo. But it cleaned up nicely, everything works, and off hand it'll hold every shot inside a 6" black at 100yds. I'll order another Dane before the year is out, most are much better, many have almost new barrels and the Danish VAR is considered one of the best GI Garand barrels ever made. -- Kernel