Springfield M1903, Northern value

Around 20 years ago, I collected Springfield M1903s and most of it's variances, overall well over 100 items. One of my sons got seriously ill and I was forced to sell them off to pay the bills. This coupled with the fact I was getting burnt out on collecting just U.S. arms, I just plain stopped for awhile and just stuck to the gunsmithing. Things improved and I started collecting again but with the focus now set on milsurp, seems that in this area it's far more affordable and just plain fun. At a local sw=how this weekend I was looking at the Springfield 03's and was stunned by the asking prices. Is this the same in the northlands? would an 80% gun go $1,500.00??SDH

$1500 is expensive even in the USA. As I understand it, they can be had in the $200-300 range through the CMP still.

Up here a truely nice 1903 is about a $600 gun most days, less if messed with in any way. 03A3's are maybe $350-400 or so.

They are not particularly common north of the line. They do turn up from time to time, of course, but there does not seem to be any great quantity of them. I've been looking for a bubba'd A3/action thereof/even a receiver to make up a simulated A4 without much success.

At the Tulsa show in October there were scores of '03's. The vendors had settled on $600-800 as their asking prices.