Rifle

Rifle
Statistics
Type	Range Projectile
Location(s)	Brantford Pawnshop Van Pelt's Lodge Trader Slick's Shop The Bazaar
User(s)	Van Pelt Ludwig Von Richtor Captain Ishmael Squint Professor Van Pelt's Army
Appearance(s)	1995 Film Board Game Animated Series LCD Game Welcome to the Jungle

Rifles are handheld, projectile firing weapons used for multiple circumstances, such as hunting and in battle. In the land of "JUMANJI", a rifle can serve as a powerful weapon for self-defense or hunting for sport. Even if the gun has no ammo left, the butt can make an effective cosh.

Appearances

• 1995
• MB
• TV
• LCD
• 2017

Van Pelt's jungle gun.

In the 1995 film, the antagonistic great white hunter Van Pelt first appeared after being summoned by Alan Parrish, initially hunting him with a large-caliber lever-action rifle, but it ran out of ammunition, which couldn't be replenished since the ammunition hasn't been manufactured since 1903. According to a shooting draft of the film's script, the rifle is chambered in 6 gauge.

Antique gold coins.

The live fire prop is a Winchester Model 1901 that had been modified with a custom stock, a false box magazine, metal sights, a mahogany leather shoulder strap embossed with floral patterns, a hooked buttplate, and a large tube placed over the barrel to give it the appearance of a large-caliber hunting rifle.

"Now if anyone asks, you didn't get this here..."

When Van Pelt visits the Brantford Pawnshop, several firearms are on display in the gun shop, including Franchi SPAS-12 prominently on display while Louise Creech worked on a Heckler & Koch HK94.

Monkeys climb into Carl Bentley's police car.

After making a successful bribe to Ralph Smigel to bypass the mandatory waiting period, a sniper rifle is acquired by Van Pelt in exchange for antique victorian coins of solid gold. The live fire prop is a Daewoo USAS-12 that was outfitted with a scope, drum magazine, and suppressor to make it look like a sniper rifle. In regards to Ralph asking Van Pelt if he's a postal worker: Around the time of the movie, there had been a lot of news stories about postal workers going crazy and shooting up their workplaces, from which the expression "Going Postal" originated.

Although Carl Bentley never uses it, there is a Mossberg 500 in his police cruiser. Mischievous Monkeys climb into his car; and fire a round through the roof after communicating with Alan.

In the Milton Bradley board game, Van Pelt has his own danger card, depicting him on a hunt with a rifle, which closely resembles the sniper rifle as it has a long tube end like the sniper rifle's silencer.

Van Pelt loading his rifle.

In the animated series, Van Pelt’s weapon of choice is a double-barreled, break action, hammer-locked rifle, and is never seen without it. This rifle has a shoulder strap like the 1995 film counterpart and is shown to be extremely powerful as it could utterly destroy solid objects like furniture and blast holes in the roof of his lodge. It was seemingly the only way to effectively scare away threats like the Minotaur, even making animals like Hippopotamuses and Monkeys flee from sight after hearing the terrifying sounds of Van Pelt's gunfire. The rifle was moderately strong enough to jam the mechanisms within the Backstage of "JUMANJI", until it was broken up into pieces. The rifle could also be torn in two by the beak of Giant Chickens.

Von Richter's rifle.

Von Richter carries a hunting rifle, which appears to be a German Mauser with telescopic sight and somewhat resembles Van Pelt’s lever-action gun from the film.

"Van Bentley".

In the parallel universe of Brantford: The Game, Carl Bentley's Van Pelt counterpart "Van Bentley" used an identical rifle to the imperialist hunter of "JUMANJI", even down to scaring off animals with his gunfire, while ironically dictating the trio to stay quiet in the library.

Despite not using any himself, Trader Slick sometimes had various types of firearms on display at his store, but their performance remained uncertain due to the nature of Slick’s dealership.

Captain Ishmael Squint kept a concealed rifle within a crate on his ship, which could launch a net large enough to temporarily restrain the Draken.

In the LCD game, a rifle can be picked up as a valuable power up item. The rifle is the strongest item in the game, as well as the only weapon that can defeat Van Pelt.

Rifles on sale at the Bazaar.

In the 2017 film, soldiers of Professor Van Pelt’s army carried firearms with them, such as modified paratrooper M1A1 Carbines.

Some stalls at the Bazaar were stocked with various types of firearms.