Well he sells them for $1450 for a complete rifle on his web site. He can only make 50 a year that way.
Your best bet is to find the cheapest crappiest field grade and he will do his mini-G magic for $575 (conversion + parkerizing everything) and 21 business day turnaround.

I have a franken-Garand about to go off to him and his products are SOLID.

Oh .... and he makes a 35 Whelen Garand. Something about a 9.1mm battle rifle that just gives me a shiver
[Disclosure: No financial stake, just one SERIOUSLY happy customer]

I also have an M1A and love it as my hog hunting gun and badass plinker but would I like to have an early 40's garand that would be a historical piece of gunnery and american history.

Buy a Garand and my vote is for an older one.

When I get that Garand for myself it will go on the wall under a pic of my grandfather. I will most likely buy a WW2 1911 to go next to it.

The 2 greatest guns in american history!!!! (in my opinion of course)

if you don't care about collectability I'd personally get the scout. I'm more of a purist when it comes to m1 garands.