Getz Barrels

[Mariner]

Hello, I was wondering if anyone has experience with Getz barrels. Are they good quality and do they shoot accurately?

 

[Grenadier1758]

I have a Getz barrel on my Derringer rifle. Its 50 caliber tapered and radius grooved.

Yes its accurate.

 

[Rudyard]

Getz barrels have a good name I gather current ones are produced in less numbers than in Don Getz time but all I've used where exellent
,Rudyard

 

[martin9]

Got two here....good barrels

 

[Larry (Omaha)]

Hello, I was wondering if anyone has experience with Getz barrels. Are they good quality and do they shoot accurately?

My scratch build Hawken has a Getz 75 cal with round bottom rifling. Good barrel! No issues!

 

[rich pierce]

Good barrels. I’ve used half a dozen.

 

[pooch156]

I have one on my .50 caliber Isaac Haines. Good shooter.

 

[Mariner]

Thank you everyone for all the info!

 

[Art Caputo]

I have one on an early Virginia style rifle. 38”, round bottom groove. One of my most accurate rifles!

 

[Grenadier1758]

I really should have made the following disclaimer with respect to my Getz barrel. I have had the barrel for about 40 years and have been shooting the barrel for the last 10 years. It took me about 25 years to finally get the Derringer rifle completed. Work and family can slow construction down.

 

[bldtrailer]

my getz barrel at 50yrdsthe gun to the left

 

[R.J.Bruce]

I had two longrifles built using Getz barrels with round bottom grooves, and factory coned muzzles. Both were flintlocks, with hand assembled large Siler locks. One in .50 caliber, and one in .62 caliber. I ordered both barrels with 1:48" rates of twist.

Both barrels shot extremely accurately out to 100 yards on targets. With my lousy eyesight, offhand, at 100 yards, on any given day, aged 25-47, I could expect a 4"-5", 5-shot group. In the hands of a good offhand shooter with excellent eyesight, both of the barrels were capable of putting 5 shots under a 50 cent piece at 100 yards.

From a bench, which I seldom shot from, both barrels could keep 5 shots under 1" at 50 yards, all day long. Most of the time, 5 shots looked like one ragged hole, if the bench shooter was doing their part.

Ball diameter for both barrels was 0.005" under bore diameter. Patch material was thick enough, I never measured its thickness, to completely fill the grooves, imprint the weave of the material into the lead ball, and push 99.9999% of the spent fouling down onto the new powder charge when seating the new patched ball. This allowed multiple repeat shots, ad infinitum, without needing to ever clean the barrel.

For shooting targets, the powder charge for the .50 caliber barrel was 70 grains of fffg black powder by volume; and for the .62 caliber barrel it was 75 grains of fffg black powder by volume.

If I had hunted back in those days, I would have had no issues using those powder charges/balls/patch material combinations to deer hunt with. Only thing needing changed would have been moving to an animal-based lube, instead of spit.