Ol' Painless (Fallout 3)

Ol' Painless is a slightly more powerful .32 Hunting Rifle.

Characteristics
Ol' Painless does slightly more damage per shot, has a slightly faster rate of fire, reloads slightly faster than the regular Hunting Rifle, and also has a good durability and can be repaired with ordinary Hunting Rifles. Ol' Painless is one of the few weapons with 0 spread, meaning non-VATS shots go exactly where you aim them.

Thanks to its common ammo type, solid damage, and decent rate of fire, Ol' Painless is a very practical multi-purpose Small Gun. On normal difficulty, players with a well-maintained Ol' Painless, high Small Guns skill and the Better Criticals perk can kill Super Mutant Brutes or even Yao Guai with a single Sneak attack critical head shot. Even Deathclaws can be dispatched safely from distance with three or four shots, potentially before they'll even know you're there. Paired with a set of Ranger Battle Armor (which will boost both your AP, Small Guns skill and your Luck), this weapon becomes surprisingly more effective than its numbers might indicate.

While hardly the most flashy or visually impressive weapon in Fallout 3, this weapon is deadly with the right combination of skills and perks.

Location(s)

 * In an unpickable safe in The Republic of Dave Capitol Building. Dave's special key required to open the safe.
 * You can get the key by pickpocketing Dave.
 * You can also get the safe open by successfully electing another member of the family. If Bob is elected he says he needs to throw out Dave's junk. If Rosie is elected, she gives you Dave's items as your "reward" for helping her. Even so taking from the safe is still considered stealing (likely a bug). If you take Ol' Painless from the safe and then speak to someone from the town, it is possible they will take it from you. If this occurs the only way to get it back is through more negative karma of either pickpocketing it or killing them and looting it.
 * You can obtain the key if you have the "You Gotta Shoot 'Em in the Head" quest as well. Through speech checks, Dave gives you his keys as an item to show Mister Crowley that he is dead, when in fact he is alive. This key can be used to unlock his safe containing Ol' Painless. To avoid getting caught stealing, either use a stealth boy or tell everyone in town to vote in order to make him move out of the room to check the ballot box.
 * If you choose to kill Dave, you will be attacked by both of his wives (as he's a polygamist). Also note that it is possible that the other residents of the Republic of Dave may be unaware of your killing Dave and his wives, and thus letting you escape the Karma loss.  Another option is to declare war on the Republic and everyone will turn hostile so you can kill them with no Karma loss.

Bugs

 * This weapon has been known to randomly disappear from your storage in your house/suite. This happened to me upon downloading the Broken Steel downloadable content on Xbox 360. Anyone else experienced this?
 * Yeah, it's happened to me, I may try going back and looking through Dave's safe, who knows maybe it magically spawned back there.
 * This also happened to me but before Broken Steel, but I managed to find it magically poofed into the Citadel Armories' locker. I was like "Holy Hell 2 Old Painless's!" But then i checked my inventory, noticed it wasn't there and was sad :(

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