Fernando,
Thanks for your comments.
Now things become bit more clear and we can provide a more informed answer to Corrado26 re. his friend's Indian gun.
On the one hand we see a gun often encountered in South India with rattan bindings that are also abundant there..
On the other hand such stock pattern might have been potentially seen in Afghanistan ( but the evidence is extremely weak) and rattan bindings were seen on a single specimen ( jezail).
On the preponderance of evidence I would vote for the first possibility.
Thanks to all of you for a lesson.
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