Medicine Stick (GRA)

The Medicine Stick is a Guns skill weapon in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Gun Runners' Arsenal.

Characteristics
The Medicine Stick is a unique brush gun. It has an increased ammo capacity and less intrusive rear sight than the regular brush gun. It also has a new action, much cleaner in appearance and unique stock with a tribal symbol composed of beads and string with two bird feathers attached to the symbol.

Due to the gun having a tubular magazine, it is reloaded by hand one bullet at a time, as such it can be interrupted mid-way through reloading and fired if needed. Because of this, it gives the gun the added advantage of being quickly available to fire again if only a single/few rounds are needed.

Despite the long reload, there is an exploit one can use: when reloading, double-tap the hot-key for changing ammunition types and the magazine should be completely reloaded.

Variants
Brush gun, the standard, non-unique variant with slightly less damage, a smaller ammo capacity, a slightly slower rate of fire, and a weaker condition.

Locations

 * Sold by the Vendortron at the Gun Runners.

Behind the scenes
Medicine sticks are also called spirit sticks by some Native American tribes. They are decorated with beads and feathers from spirit animals such as the eagle. Spirit sticks are used for rituals pertaining to the spirit world, thus implying the Medicine Stick can take away 'bad spirits' and send them to the spirit world.