Chinese Pistol (Fallout 3)

The Shansei C96 Chinese Pistol is a relic of the United States' war with China, an event that triggered the Great War, that can still be found in the Capital Wasteland.

Characteristics
It is arguably the weakest pistol in the game and is nearly useless as a weapon. Its only uses are for its value in trade (it is pound-for-pound the most valuable of all conventional weapons), and for repairing its unique incendiary version, the Zhu-Rong v418 Chinese pistol. Given the availability of the N99 10mm pistol (which has superior stats), and the fact that they share ammunition, it is advised that you pass on using the Chinese pistol.

However, one upside is that a fully repaired Chinese pistol can fire 1242 rounds before breaking. That's more than twice the amount of the N99, making it an excellent choice if you don't want to worry about constantly having to repair your weapon. Keep in mind that, even though it has twice the durability of the N99 10mm pistol, it takes more rounds down range to drop your target.

Variants

 * Zhu-Rong v418 Chinese pistol - While the Zhu-Rong does the same base amount of damage, it is unique due to the fact that it fires incendiary rounds, which deal fire damage over time.
 * In the Operation: Anchorage add-on, Chinese pistols are carried by the Crimson Dragoons. They are not re-skinned but have near infinite durability. They can be obtained by using the inventory glitch during the simulation by using the Gauss rifle and pickpocketing, but cannot be brought into the wasteland. (Your inventory is purged after finishing The Guns of Anchorage.)

Locations

 * Low-level raiders throughout the wasteland often carry them. Higher-level raiders still carry them occasionally, but not very often.
 * Most traders usually have one or two Chinese pistols in their inventory.
 * One can be found in the Museum of Dave, located inside the Republic of Dave.
 * One of these can be found on the mothership in the add-on Mothership Zeta in the Cryo-labs on a table surrounded by other wasteland objects in a storage room.

Appearances
s only appear in Fallout 3.

Behind the scenes

 * A Mauser C96, on which the Chinese pistol is based on, can be seen in the movies Mad Max and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
 * In real life, the Chinese created similar C96 knockoffs, though chambered for .45 ACP rather than the in-game 10mm.

Bugs

 * The reload animation for the Chinese pistol has the player loading a stripper clip into the pistol. However, the animation literally loads the entire stripper clip into the weapon, instead of stripping the rounds into the internal magazine and throwing the empty clip away.

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