Scoped .44 Magnum

The scoped .44 Magnum is a weapon in Fallout 3.

Characteristics
The scoped .44 Magnum is a very high-powered pistol. It has a very long effective range, which is further extended by the scope but also has a low rate of fire for a double-action revolver. There is no recoil when looking through the scope and firing.

Durability
A fully-repaired Magnum can fire approximately 229 rounds, or 39 reloads, from full condition before breaking.

Variants

 * Blackhawk - While it is much stronger than the regular .44, it is also the weakest of the unique versions.
 * Callahan's Magnum - Named after famous gunfighter and security guard Harold Callahan, Callahan's Magnum is the more effective version of Blackhawk, dealing more damage with slightly more wear and tear on the gun.
 * Paulson's revolver - Drawn by space cowboy Paulson in the hostile confines of Mothership Zeta, it fires a slew of pellets instead of a single bullet. It is also unique for not having a scope, while other variants of .44 Magnum revolvers do.
 * Wernher's scoped .44 Magnum - An unobtainable version of the scoped .44 Magnum carried by Wernher. It has significantly higher health but is otherwise identical to the standard variant.

Locations

 * In the truck to the left of the tent where you find the 5th Keller family transcript.
 * Inside Vance's office wall safe during the Blood Ties quest. Must be stolen.
 * On one of the skeletal remains in the Marigold station, along with a box of .44 Magnum cartridges.
 * On a table a few feet away from the very hard locked door in the Broken Bow portion of Rivet City, near Horace Pinkerton's lab.
 * Inside Reilly's Rangers headquarters.
 * Mister Crowley of Underworld, Eulogy Jones of Paradise Falls, Willy Wilson of Andale, Billy Creel in Megaton, and Crow, the traveling merchant, all wield this gun.
 * In a sunken boat near the Jefferson Memorial.
 * Under a flight of stairs in the Hubris Comics printing room.
 * Near a rotting brahmin corpse in the Shalebridge Hill ant tunnels.
 * In a toilet's cistern in the ladies' room of the corporate offices of the Vault-Tec headquarters.
 * In the flooded metro, behind a large transformer, near a skeleton and a copy of Guns and Bullets.
 * On the second floor of the ruined building southeast of Tenpenny Tower, by a skeleton near a wooden shelf.
 * In a locked safe in Vault 87, with a few grenades and some purified water.
 * Behind a Hard locked door (or Average terminal) on the first floor of the Chryslus Building Reception Area, next to a copy of Guns and Bullets.
 * Tulip in Underworld may sell one.
 * Lucky Harith may have one, especially after investing in him during the unmarked quest Merchant Empire.
 * During the quest The Nuka-Cola Challenge, if you get the Nuka-Cola Clear formula from the Nuka-Cola plant and go to the Red Racer factory, a man named Ledoux carries one.
 * Olney sewers in the room with the workbench on a table to the right.
 * On the top-left shelf behind Knight Captain Durga in the Citadel armory.
 * Tobar carries a 44. scoped Magnum. If Tobar is still essential, it can be acquired by starting a fight with him and then shooting the gun out of his hands.
 * In the northeastern part of Point Lookout, next to a skeleton, two frag mines, and two ammunition boxes.
 * In Desmond's Panic Room.
 * In the Presidential metro, at the top of a set of stairs covered in rubble, the Magnum is at the top of one of these flights. It is advised to have the Pip-Boy light on, or ask Dogmeat to sniff it out, as the weapon blends in quite easily with the rubble and can be hard to spot.
 * In one of the storage areas in level 2 of the Mobile base crawler.

Bugs
When zooming in and waiting at the same time, the right and left part of the screen will turn into a sky blue, while the effects of looking through the scope will be missing.