Did anyone besides Numrich make a musket barrel with 7 grooves?
Did anyone besides Numrich make a musket barrel with 7 grooves?
Chris Sweeney
I believe Numrich barrels were 8 groove barrels. Hoyt will make 7 groove barrels.
Bill Large used to make 7-groove barrels.
Glenn M. Kaye
73rd New York Volunteer Infantry
I have a 63 Artillery rifle that has a barrel with 7 grooves and a patent breech. It also has "RH" stamped on the left side of the breech. The person who sold me the rifle said it was a Hoyt barrel, but all the Hoyt barrels I've ever seen are marked RAH. Did Bob ever make patent breech barrels and/or mark his work "RH?" I'm getting ready to find this gun a new home and I don't want to mislead any new owner
Chris Sweeney
Hallo!
My late old pard Steve Jencso used to "make" multi-groove barrels. (He fitted an "muzzleloading" straight octagonal barrel to a Yeck breech section and tapered it to shape.)
IIRC, they were seven or six groove, and came from "Orion" and someone else. But that was in the 1990's.
Curt
Curt Schmidt
Formerly 17 years a Sherman's Bodyguard
Married to a descendant of Senator John Sherman's wife
Getz made 7 groove barrels. I used their barrels on some of the rifles I made. Excellent barrels. The only problem they changed the bore from .577 to .580.
Don Getz passed away in November of 2014. The shop I believe is closed.
A company call Rice make 7 groove barrels.
http://ricebarrels.com/
Last edited by Gary Vikar; 04-04-2016 at 03:59 PM.
Gerhardt Vikar Sr.
Richmond Purcell's Battery
NWT198
Former National IG
Former NWT Regional Commander.
OK, I just checked my barrels. Have four Bill Large, 2 Mississippi's, 1 '63 Springfield and 1 '53 Enfield, all are 8 groove. I have one '63 barrel marked SMJBH, which I was told was Jensco/Hoyt (dated 2/91), which is also 8 groove. I don't know if Getz and Rice made or make Civil War military barrels, do they ??
BS
My Numrich Zouave barrel is 8 L&G.
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Paul Altland
21st Va. Md Guard Co. B
No I just bought barrel rifled blanks. Which I turned on lathe to match the springfield barrels. I had some turned and breeched by Hoyt.
Gerhardt Vikar Sr.
Richmond Purcell's Battery
NWT198
Former National IG
Former NWT Regional Commander.
I have a Clowdis Richmond carbine barrel with 7 grooves
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