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Jezail musket

Ottoman musket

A Jezail is a type of long-barrel muzzle-loading musket made in the Middle East, Asia and India up until the early 20th century. Since Jezails were made to order by individual craftsmen they are not standardised, having either matchlock or flintlock mechanisms and often using Brown Bess Flintlock Musket lockwork, and sometimes having rifled barrels, but are typically identified by their unusual horn-shaped stock. They were similar to American Frontier-era hunting rifles but were typically heavier and larger, with calibres in the .50-.75 range, and were used in a similar role to modern sniper rifles. Their heavy weight and long barrel led to a much greater effective range than standard infantry muskets, and they were used to fearsome effect by Afghan snipers during the Anglo-Afghan wars in the 19th century.

As with most antique weapons, Jezail muskets seen in live-action productions are quite likely to be modern replicas or non-functional props.

Specifications

(? - 19th Century)

Type: Muzzleloading black powder musket

Caliber: Various

Capacity: 1

Fire Modes: Single Shot

The Jezail Musket and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Gunga Din		Thuggee cultist		1939
Beau Geste		Tuaregs		1939
Legend of the Lost		Tuaregs		1957
Lawrence of Arabia		Bodyguards		1962
The Unvanquished (L'Insoumis)			Decoration on the wall	1964
The Naked Prey		Slavers		1966
Khartoum			Hangs on the wall	1966
Untamable Angelique		Mezzo Morte guards, Arab hijackers		1967
Angelique and the Sultan	Henri Cogan	Simon Bolbec		1968
Angelique and the Sultan		Prison guards, sultan´s soldiers		1968
Colonel Wolodyjowski		Turkish soldiers		1969
Young Winston		Pashtun tribesmen; Mahdists		1972
The Man Who Would Be King		Boy		1975
The Wind and the Lion		Berber warriors		1975
March or Die		Bedouins		1977
Flatfoot in Egypt		Bedouins		1980
Sahara	John Rhys-Davies	Rasoul	Hanging in a tent	1983
The Beast of War	Jason Patric	Konstantin Koverchenko		1988
The Beast of War		Afghan Mujahideen		1988
Operation Condor		Arabic kidnappers		1991
With Fire and Sword (Ogniem i mieczem)	Andrzej Pieczynski	Czeremis		1999
The Turkish Gambit (Turetskiy gambit)		Bashi Bazouks		2005
Green Zone				2010
The Three Musketeers				2011
Day of the Falcon (Or noir)		The tribal warriors, Auda´s men		2011
American Sniper			Hanging on wall	2014
Mad Max: Fury Road	Melissa Jaffer	The Keeper of the Seeds		2015

Television

Show Title	Actor	Character	Note / Episode	Air Date
Soldier Soldier			Ottoman Musket "Shifting Sands" (S3E1)	1991-1997
Banshee - Season 2	Antony Starr	Sheriff Lucas Hood	seen in Proctor's illegal weapon arsenal / Episode 8	2014

Video Games

Game Title	Appears as	Mods	Release Date
Battlefield: 1918			2004
Team Fortress 2	As the "Bazaar Bargain"	With laser pointer and scope, converted to fire center-fire rifle cartridges	2007
Assassin's Creed Unity	Non-Lethal Long Rifle		2014

Anime

Title	Character	Note / Episode	Date
Hellsing Ultimate	Rip Van Winkle	Fires magic bullets.	2006-2012

Animation

Title	Characters	Notation	Date
The Adventures of Tintin	Marines		2011

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