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 single-loaded instead of feeding from a detachable magazine. Additionally, the time it takes for the player to open up and close the lever action at the start and end of the reloading cycle takes an extraordinarily long time, meaning that attempting to load and fire individual shells will reduce the effective fire rate significantly.

The gun can be interrupted mid-way through reloading and fired immediately if needed. When killing an enemy with this shotgun, it has the ability to send the unfortunate corpse sprawling, potentially over five feet.

Durability
The lever-action shotgun can fire a total of about 495 standard shells, the equivalent of 99 reloads, from full condition 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.
 * In the Executive suites of the 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. Can be stolen or purchased.
 * Mick in Mick & Ralph's wields one.

Behind the scenes
It is modeled after the Winchester 1887.

The same model with the same modifications is used by the T-800 in "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" during the famous chase scene in the dry Los Angeles drainage canal. Arnold Schwarzenegger practised in weeks to be able to recock the gun by spinning it by the lever and at the same time navigate the Harley Davidson. The gun is featured on posters and covers with Arnold holding it

Bugs
The reload animation of lever action weapons doesn't have a corresponding jam animation, so the weapon will not jam, even at near-breaking conditions.