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
===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
Emerald City 	 	Kingdom of Ev. Wizard's and the Wizards soldier	customized 	2017
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
Mandalorian, The - Season 2 	W. Earl Brown 	Mos Pelgo Bartender 	Chapter 9: The Marshall: visually modified as a Cycler Rifle 	2020
Mandalorian, The - Season 2 	Temuera Morrison	Boba Fett 	"Chapter 9: The Marshall" and Chapter 14: The Tragedy"; visually modified as a Cycler Rifle, with a mounted scope	2020
Mandalorian, The - Season 2 	Bill Burr 	Miggs Mayfeld 	"Chapter 15: The Believer"; visually modified as a Cycler Rifle, with a mounted scope 	2020
===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
Category:Gun
Category:Rifle
Category:Muzzleloader