Combat Shotgun (Fallout 3)

The Drum-Magazine Combat Shotgun is a common Fallout 3 weapon.

Characteristics
Vastly superior to the Sawed-Off Shotgun, the Combat Shotgun combines a large magazine with devastating close-range damage. The only drawback is the weapon's poor reliability, as the Combat Shotgun deteriorates quickly. However, considering it is commonly used by human opponents, and its use in traps, you can usually find enough to keep at least one in fully working order.

Unlike the combat shotguns in previous Fallout games, the combat shotgun in Fallout 3 is not fully-automatic.

The combat shotgun can fire 145 shells, or about 12 drums, before breaking.

Variants

 * The Terrible Shotgun - Carried by raider merchant Smiling Jack, The Terrible Shotgun deals an obscene amount of damage to targets, in exchange for a much wider spread.