About this project
A Personal, Volunteer Effort for the M1 Garand Community
USRIFLECAL30M1.com is built and maintained as a personal labor of respect for the history, data, and people connected to the M1 Garand.
This site takes substantial time, technical effort, and ongoing operational cost to run. It is created and supported voluntarily, without financial backing, institutional sponsorship, or paid staff.
Independent and Unfunded
Hosting, development, maintenance, moderation, and research support are handled personally and voluntarily.
Advertisement-Free Site by Design
This site contains no advertising. It does not display ads, accept ad placements, or use ad networks—and it never will.
Community-Centered Purpose
The mission is simple: preserve and share useful data for collectors, historians, researchers, and future enthusiasts.
Accuracy, Errors, and Responsibility
Some records are incomplete, ambiguous, or derived from legacy sources. The correct response to that reality is collaboration: identify issues, provide better evidence, and improve the record together.
Constructive corrections strengthen the site and benefit everyone. Disparaging the project or its owners does not improve data quality; informed contributions do.
How You Can Help Improve the Data
- Share verifiable corrections with clear serial references and context.
- Submit additions and updates through the site workflows where available.
- Provide source quality details so changes can be validated responsibly.
- Encourage others to contribute facts, not friction.
A Shared Standard
Respectful, evidence-based collaboration is how this archive becomes more accurate over time.
Help keep this resource useful, trustworthy, and available for the next generation of collectors.