Big Boomer

The Big Boomer is a unique weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
The Big Boomer is a sawed-off shotgun with the same break action, 12 gauge that fires both shells at a time, delivering 14 pellets at a time instead of the typical 7 of other shotguns.

Like the common sawed-off shotgun, the Big Boomer has the same general characteristics with high burst damage, low damage-per-second, high weapons spread, but slightly better statistics. The only big difference is that the common sawed-off shotgun is classified as a holdout weapon, whereas the Big Boomer is not.

Durability
Big Boomer can fire a total of about 395 times, or 790 standard rounds, the equivalent of 395 reloads, from full condition before breaking. This is exactly the same amount as its common variant.

Variants

 * Sawed-off shotgun, a common variant found throughout the Mojave Wasteland.

Location
The Big Boomer is carried by Old Lady Gibson, who resides in the Gibson scrap yard.

Behind the scenes
Within the games files exists an unused texture for the Big Boomer. It uses the Fallout 3 model and only differs from that in the color of the wood and the words Big Boomer written down the side of the handgrip.

Bugs

 * When in first person view, the weapon looks fine, but when in third person view, the grip of the gun can be detached from the two barrels.
 * In unpatched versions, it can be bought from Mick at Mick & Ralph's.
 * Big boomer does not contribute to the "I've Got Shotgun" damage challenge.
 * Occasionally after you kill Old Lady Gibson she will not have the Big Boomer in her inventory.