diff --git a/GUI/Model/Descriptor/DistributionItems.cpp b/GUI/Model/Descriptor/DistributionItems.cpp
index a6e4804615c507fb46afca69e8ba79fe5de25590..c046ee67582491b7e0ca007e955073cdb7e9713f 100644
--- a/GUI/Model/Descriptor/DistributionItems.cpp
+++ b/GUI/Model/Descriptor/DistributionItems.cpp
@@ -38,9 +38,7 @@ const QString BaseData("BaseData");
 } // namespace Tag
 } // namespace
 
-DistributionItem::DistributionItem() = default;
-
-void DistributionItem::initRelSamplingWidth()
+DistributionItem::DistributionItem()
 {
     m_rel_sampling_width.init("Rel. sampling width", "", 2.0, "relSamplingWidth");
 }
@@ -248,8 +246,6 @@ DoubleProperties DistributionGateItem::distributionValues(bool /*withMean*/)
 DistributionLorentzItem::DistributionLorentzItem()
     : SymmetricResolutionItem(1.0)
 {
-    initRelSamplingWidth();
-
     m_hwhm.init("HWHM", "", 1.0, "hwhm");
 }
 
@@ -323,8 +319,6 @@ DoubleProperties DistributionLorentzItem::distributionValues(bool withMean)
 DistributionGaussianItem::DistributionGaussianItem()
     : SymmetricResolutionItem(1.0)
 {
-    initRelSamplingWidth();
-
     m_standard_deviation.init("StdDev", "", 1.0, 3, RealLimits::lowerLimited(0.0), "stdDev");
 }
 
@@ -398,8 +392,6 @@ DoubleProperties DistributionGaussianItem::distributionValues(bool withMean)
 
 DistributionLogNormalItem::DistributionLogNormalItem()
 {
-    initRelSamplingWidth();
-
     m_median.init("Median", "", 1.0, "median");
     m_scale_parameter.init("ScaleParameter", "", 1.0, 3, RealLimits::lowerLimited(0.0), "scalePar");
 }
diff --git a/GUI/Model/Descriptor/DistributionItems.h b/GUI/Model/Descriptor/DistributionItems.h
index c5b6354c3e0d11e33100739cf012861420ab6f93..bf001849d0c94f021200b1a6de598c63d07ef2e7 100644
--- a/GUI/Model/Descriptor/DistributionItems.h
+++ b/GUI/Model/Descriptor/DistributionItems.h
@@ -49,8 +49,6 @@ public:
     virtual DoubleProperties distributionValues(bool withMean = true) = 0;
 
 protected:
-    void initRelSamplingWidth();
-
     uint m_number_of_samples = 5;
 
     DoubleProperty m_rel_sampling_width;