True story: back in the 80’s, my buddy found a gun shop in NoVA that had gotten in several crates of M-1 Garands. Not sure where they came from: South Korea, were CMP disposals, or what. Four to a crate, varying conditions, as is. Covered in cosmo and wrapped in plastic, $100. We figured that if we could build two good ones out of four beaters, we were kings. They sold out before the two of us could scrape together the C-note to buy a crate. What a missed opportunity.
Those were probably South Korean, they were pretty beat up.
Springfield Sporters also purchased a quantity of Garands from Colombia around the same time...they had been bought for cash back in the 50s, so there were no Lend-Lease/MAP issues with them, unlike the South Korean ones.