Red Ryder BB Gun (Fallout)

Red Ryder BB Gun is a Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout 3 and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel weapon.

Fallout and Fallout 2
''The Red Ryder BB gun has good magazine capacity, but it is almost useless in-game because of a very low damage potential. The LE variant performs much better.''

Fallout 3
In Fallout 3, you receive this on your 10th birthday. It is possible to grab the gun from your desk during your escape at age 19, but since it does even less damage than the handgun Amata just handed you and has a high AP cost, it is merely a sentimental object. Though if you tell Amata to keep the handgun, so she will not be captured by her father, you can use it to kill some roaches and the guards since most are wielding police batons. However, if you do grab it, when Butch DeLoria asks you to help his mother, you can offer to give him the weapon to fight off the radroaches. He will give you his Tunnel Snake Outfit in return.

This gun is the least-damaging weapon in the game, tied with the Chinese pistol and Zhu-Rong pistol. Almost every weapon in the game, except the pool cue and rolling pin, are more damaging. If you find one, it is best to sell it.

You can also buy this BB Gun later on in the game. It may serve a limited purpose at whittling down enemies as they close in the early game, making melee modestly easier.

It can also be used to shoot mines, albeit it takes a few shots to blow up one. A shot mine might flip, making it easier to disarm.

Note that if Butch's mother dies while he tries to kill the radroaches, he will not initiate conversation with you and therefore will not give back the BB gun.

Trivia

 * This is named for a BB gun in A Christmas Story, where the main Character, Ralphie, is wanting a Red Ryder BB Gun for Christmas, but is ridiculed by Adults, saying "You'll shoot your eye out." At the end of the Movie, Ralphie finally gets the gun on Christmas day, and predictably "shoots his eye out" when a ricochet hits him in the face, knocking off his glasses.
 * Red Ryder was the name of a famous cowboy western series in the 1950's.
 * Due to the Popularity of Red Ryder, Daisy BB Guns started selling actual Red Ryder BB Guns in 1938, and are still sold in stores today.

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