The Afghan Long Rifle or Traditional Jezail

The Afghan Long Rifle, or more commonly known in the West as a “Jezail“ struck free into General Elphinstone’s combined British and Indian Army of 1841 and 1842 as soldiers were shot down from hundreds of meters beyond the effective range of their own smoothbore muskets. The Afghan Long Rifle was unlike many flintlock rifles at the time in that it had an extremely long barrel and a curved stock unlike many European designs. Although it didn’t originate in Afghanistan, it quickly became known as uniquely Afg