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Jezail Musket
A Jezail is a type of long-barrel muzzle-loading musket made in Afghanistan. It is often incorrectly used as a blanket term for various muzzle loading long guns from the Middle East, North Africa, Asia and India. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tarzan of the Apes | Arabian slavers | Ottoman | 1918 | |
| Jánošík | Turkish, hanged on the wall | 1921 | ||
| Dzhulbars | Nikolay P. Cherkasov | Sho-Murad | 1937 | |
| Treasure Island (Ostrov sokrovishch) | Irish rebels | 1937 | ||
| Gunga Din | Thuggee cultist | 1939 | ||
| Beau Geste | Tuaregs | 1939 | ||
| Legend of the Lost | Tuaregs | 1957 | ||
| Lawrence of Arabia | Bodyguards | 1962 | ||
| Greed in the Sun (Cent mille dollars au soleil) | Hangs on the wall | 1964 | ||
| The Yellow One | Ralf Wolter | Hadschi Halef Omar | 1964 | |
| The Yellow One | Renato Baldini | Barud | 1964 | |
| The Yellow One | Dusan Janicijevic | Omar Ben Sadek | 1964 | |
| The Yellow One | Dusan Antonijevic | Bandit | 1964 | |
| The Yellow One | Bandits | 1964 | ||
| The Unvanquished (L'Insoumis) | Decoration on the wall | 1964 | ||
| The Naked Prey | Slavers | 1966 | ||
| Khartoum | Hangs on the wall | 1966 | ||
| The Phantom of Morrisville (Fantom Morrisvillu) | Wall decoration | 1966 | ||
| Viy or Spirit of Evil | hangs on the wall | 1967 | ||
| Kill Me Gently | 1967 | |||
| 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 | ||
| White Sun of the Desert (Beloye solntse pustyni) | seen in a pile of antique firearms | 1970 | ||
| You Can't Win 'Em All | Bandits | 1970 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Appointment with Death | On the wall in Col. Carbury's office | 1988 | ||
| Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | soldiers of the Republic of Hatay | Ottoman | 1989 | |
| Operation Condor | Arabic kidnappers | 1991 | ||
| With Fire and Sword (Ogniem i mieczem) | Andrzej Pieczynski | Czeremis | 1999 | |
| Peter Pan | Jason Isaacs | Captain Hook | 2003 | |
| Peter Pan | Seen in the arsenal | 2003 | ||
| Hidalgo | Tribesmen | 2004 | ||
| The Turkish Gambit (Turetskiy gambit) | Bashi Bazouks | 2005 | ||
| The Golden Mean (Zolotoe sechenie) | Arabian man | 2010 | ||
| Green Zone | 2010 | |||
| The Three Musketeers | 2011 | |||
| Day of the Falcon (Or noir) | The tribal warriors, Auda´s men | 2011 | ||
| September Eleven 1683 | Ottoman soldiers | 2012 | ||
| American Sniper | Hanging on wall | 2014 | ||
| Mad Max: Fury Road | Melissa Jaffer | The Keeper of the Seeds | 2015 | |
| John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum | Seen in armory | 2019 |
Television
| Show Title | Actor | Character | Note / Episode | Air Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Adventures of Sir Michael (Przygody pana Michala) | Ottoman soldiers | 1969 | ||
| The Adjutant of His Excellency (Adyutant ego prevoskhoditelstva) | Seen in Startsev's collection; Ottoman musket | 1969 | ||
| The Twentieth Century Approaches (Dvadtsatyy vek nachinaetsya) | Seen on the wall | 1987 | ||
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Indian rebels | (S01E05) | 1984 | |
| Soldier Soldier | Ottoman Musket "Shifting Sands" (S3E1) | 1991-1997 | ||
| The Caravan of Sailors | Turkish Bedouins | 2006 | ||
| Banshee - Season 2 | Antony Starr | Sheriff Lucas Hood | seen in Proctor's illegal weapon arsenal / Episode 8 | 2014 |
| Emerald City | Stefanie Martini | Princess Langwidere | customized | 2017 |
| Emerald City | Stefanie Martini | Princess Langwidere | "Lions in Winter" (E08) customized | 2017 |
| Kingdom of Ev. Wizard's and the Wizards soldier | customized | |||
| Mandalorian, The - Season 1 | Tusken Raider | Chapter 5: The Gunslinger; visually modified as a Cycler Rife | 2019 | |
| Mandalorian, The - Season 2 | Tusken Raiders | Chapter 9: The Marshall: visually modified as a Cycler Rifle | 2020 | |
| W. Earl Brown | Mos Pelgo Bartender | |||
| Temuera Morrison | Boba Fett | "Chapter 9: The Marshall" and Chapter 14: The Tragedy"; visually modified as a Cycler Rifle, with a mounted scope | ||
| Bill Burr | Miggs Mayfeld | "Chapter 15: The Believer"; visually modified as a Cycler Rifle, with a mounted scope |
Video Games
| Game Title | Appears as | Mods | Notation | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battlefield: 1918 | 2004 | |||
| Team Fortress 2 | "Bazaar Bargain" | With laser pointer and scope, converted to fire center-fire rifle cartridges | 2007 | |
| Assassin's Creed Unity | Non-Lethal Long Rifle | 2014 | ||
| Rainbow Six Siege | Unusable | 2015 | ||
| Uncharted 4: A Thief's End | Short Barreled | 2016 |
Anime
| Title | Character | Note / Episode | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hellsing Ultimate | Rip Van Winkle | Fires magic bullets. | 2006-2012 |
| The Empire of Corpses | Afghan peasants | 2015 |
Animation
| Title | Characters | Notation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Adventures of Tintin | Marines | 2011 |