Jezail barrel origin question

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Originally Posted by DaleH

From my experience, many of these and Toradars were made using 2-piece stocks on the upper forend, glued with animal glue and covered by a barrel band. Usually the splice was on an angle.

I just acquired a very fine, very long Indian Toradar (53" barrel!) that has two dovetail joints in the stock. In the case of my jezail, you can see where the saw blade cut into the barrel. Not really a big deal as the barrel band covers it.