Lever-Action Shotgun

The lever-action shotgun is a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
Adding to the variety of shotguns found in Fallout: New Vegas, this shotgun has a lever-action (similar to the cowboy repeater) and fires a 20 gauge shotgun shell. It has the highest damage-per-second of all 20-gauge shotguns. The only real disadvantages to the lever-action are the ammunition capacity and the fact that it must be hand-loaded instead of magazine-fed.

However, while it may take longer than normal to fully reload, due to the gun being reloaded by hand one shell at a time, it can be interrupted mid-way through reloading and fired if needed. Because of this, it gives the gun the advantage of being quickly available to fire again if only a single or few rounds are needed. When killing an enemy with this shotgun, it has the ability to send the unfortunate target sprawling, potentially over five feet.

The lever-action shotgun can also be used with And Stay Back and Shotgun Surgeon perks and becomes incredible lethal and can easily handle legion assassins at high levels and floor large numbers of individuals thus help deal with crowds (high luck may also pay a factor in this). Combined with Cowboy Perk, it could become incredible lethal weapon.

A fully repaired lever-action shotgun can fire 496 shells, about 99 magazines, before breaking.

Locations

 * Atomic Wrangler Casino - behind the check-in counter, on top of the shelves.
 * Big Horn Saloon, Boulder City - in the back room, past a locked door, sitting on on a Sunset Sarsaparilla crate.
 * Crimson Caravan guards carry them.
 * Durable Dunn's sacked caravan - on the corpse of a dead Crimson Caravan guard.
 * Executive Suites, Sierra Madre Casino
 * Great Khans may carry them.
 * Gun Runners - it can be bought from Vendortron.
 * Fiends occasionally carry them.
 * Miguel's Pawn Shop, Westside - found in the basement, on the bottom shelf of the shelving unit.
 * Mick in Mick & Ralph's wields one.

Behind the scenes

 * It is modeled after the Winchester 1887.