Big Boomer

The  is a unique weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.

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

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 Scrapyard.
 * It can be reverse pickpocketed from her, too. Though the easiest way is to provoke her and either cripple her right arm or shoot it out of her hand, and obtain it that way.

Behind the scenes
Within the games files exists a 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 perfectly fine, but when in third person view, the grip of the gun can be detached from the two barrels.
 * When determining the damage in V.A.T.S. the damage threshold seems to be entirely ignored, overstating the damage potential on targets wearing armor drastically.
 * In unpatched versions, it can be bought from Mick & Ralph's.