Don Getz on the Blog

[smshea]

Nice work Don, Love the simplicity!

[smylee grouch]

I love the gun, and so do some of my Mason customers, if its a raffle gun are tickets available?          Gary

[rich pierce]

Real clean, as always.

[Don Getz]

Thanks guys.   I thought it turned out pretty well.  It has a 44" medium weight dickert barrel in 54 cal., super siler, and a
great trigger pull, weights in at just over 7#.    Extremely hard piece of wood, which is probably the reason my back is on the blink right now, it was hard rasping, even with those Nicholson rasps.   The top of the heel is shaped like a buttplate
with a band across the front edge.    I will have the gun at Dixon's, and will talk about it a little in my sunday presentation, along with a pre-shaped stock that I started with.   Will also have it at the CLA, and at Mac Spencer's Eastern Pa. show in Sept.    My Lodge came up with money problem so I built it for them to chance off, merely as a money
maker, just doing my good duty.   The ticket sales will be a low key item, I don't want to offend Chuck or anyone at the
CLA, so, you may have to ask about them.   If you want some thru the mail, send a message to me at "dggetz@nmax.net"
, thanks..............Don

[stuart cee dub]

I really enjoy these simple clean guns ,I especially like the fact Mr Getz retains the  sliding patch box .These series of guns really should be in the Library .

Is may be more of a gun building question but I wonder if sealing the butt end with thinned acraglass or something would be  worthwhile ,kind of like an invisible reinforcement treatment.

[Don Getz]

Stuart......sounds like a good idea, but, you would be amazed at how little wear shows on them, even after a lot of use.
My chunk gun has no buttplate and it has been fired hundreds of times and shows very little wear.   I suppose if you loaded it in the gravel or stones it might chew it up a little, but, would be easy to renew.......Don

[B Shipman]

Really like it. Nice lines. A lot more work than it looks.

[Ed Wenger]

Don,

That's a really nice looking gun.  Just shows that fancy isn't always better...  Can't wait to see her at Dixon's!

                 Ed

[smallpatch]

Don,

Really nice.  Slender, sleek and beautiful.

[D. Taylor Sapergia]

Great work Don.  I really like the design of this rifle...a fabulous shooter.  I love that long wrist and deep triangular butt.

[Dr. Tim-Boone]

Don, what do you look for in grain structure to help keep the toe from getting knocked off when no buttplate is used??

[Don Getz]

Tim.....I don't look for anything special.   It would be almost impossible to find a stock that had grain running in a direction
that would prevent splitting.    The grain in all stocks is running basically horizontal, so, it is possible to split a toe off of
any gun.    You see a lot of old guns where the toe has been busted off and glued back on.   It could easily happen to a
barn gun if the toe was smacked on a real hard object, such as a rock, or whatever.   Maybe I'm spoiled but I have always
treated my guns like guns, not walking sticks or props...........Don

[Don Getz]

Some people have sent me E-mail's inquiring about the chances we are selling on that barn gun, and how to obtain them.
If you haven't received an answer from me it's because  I can't get this "machine" I am typing on to return a message.
No problem in receiving E-mails, it just won't send any.  So, if you are interested, send me an E-mail, but, include a phone
number, I'll get back to you the old fashioned way....thanks.........Don

[Roger Fisher]

Some people have sent me E-mail's inquiring about the chances we are selling on that barn gun, and how to obtain them.
If you haven't received an answer from me it's because  I can't get this "machine" I am typing on to return a message.
No problem in receiving E-mails, it just won't send any.  So, if you are interested, send me an E-mail, but, include a phone
number, I'll get back to you the old fashioned way....thanks.........Don

I'll assume you will have the rifle and tickets for us peons to buy at the log shoot!!!

[Kermit]

As a positively pathological fan of barnguns, schimmels, poorboys, plainguns, this one sings to me. Among the very best I've seen. Love what you've done with the buttstock. I'd purely love this in a .40!!!

Don--live long and keep it up!

[Ken G]

Brother Don,
Please post the address and/or information in the "For Sale" section so we can all buy some tickets.  Very nice barn gun by the way.  I'd proudly hang it on my wall.  
Ken

[Don Getz]

Will do Ken, thanks..........Don

[jwh1947]

I have a hypothesis.  Don's gun is very consistent with many 175-year-old classic hunters to be found in these parts, just better made.  Wayne