The lowest cost L39A1 rifle I have seen sell in the past 5 years went for 1,200 dollars. With the poor economy I would see a complete rig with sights going in the 1500 region on gun broker. Calfed, if you are looking for a clone or a AJP built up rifle, these do sell for less, on the order of 750 to 850 dollars. Joe Salter had a No4 MK II eqivilent rifle with the Enfield hammer forged barrel made up into a close to L39A1 type rifle (you would have to add a cut down forend to get the rifle correct for around 750 dollars. A similar rifle with a nice target stock but with the L42 front sight went for about 685 dollars on Gunbroker recently.

If you do not have the cash for the real thing you could put something together very close for around 750, as long as you are willing to do a little stock work yourself to make the forend and front handguard. You don’t even need a Enfield barrel, buy a good Krieger Palma barrel with the .297/.307 bore dimension and assembling it using any Fazakerly post war action. I did one for a friend using a beat up MKII forend, made the metal insert for king screw and made the hand guard buy mating two No 4 rear hand guards together, I have enough of the one guard to complete two more guards. Except for the markings and the front sight base, you could not tell it apart.

The problem is that L39A1 rifles are not that common, I think something like 384 were imported by Navy arms and a few more drifted south from Canadaicon. Given that less than 1400 were made total, if you want the markings on the side of the action body there is no cheap way around paying the man.