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Almost looks like an 1894 musket with the wood and magazine cut leaving the rear barrel band and some sort of band holding the magazine tube to the barrel at the muzzle.  

Granny in the window looking to see how much sausage meat she’s gonna have to grind.

Folks still haul their trophies any way they can.

Never one to take things on faith, curiosity getting the better, tried assembling a 1894 carbine forearm and band on a 1894 rifle with a standard round barrel.  It doesnt quite work so well. 

• If you use the carbine wood and magazine tube, the inlet for the barrel in the carbine forearm stock would require some wood removal expand the width of the barrel inlet, a round barrel is just too big, not even close to getting the magazine tube to line up parallel to the barrel.  Also, the barrel diameter is too large to fit into the recess or step in the barrel band to receive the barrel.  Even with the barrel step metal removed from the inside of the carbine barrel band the overall inside diameter is 12/1000″ too narrow (top to bottom) to fit over a barrel and rifle forearm. 
• Taking a second look it does look like a carbine forearm–may be possible to trim down the inlet for the barrel substantially to allow it to accept a round rifle barrel but are still left with with the dilemma of fitting the rear carbine band.    
• The carbine front barrel band will not accept the larger diameter of a rifle barrel.  Not physically possible.

The old boy could have trimmed down a carbine forearm to fit the rifle barrel, modified the barrel band, or used a pair of hose clamps to hold it together, who knows, but fun to speculate. 

Chris