Hatchet (Fallout: New Vegas)

The hatchet is a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
It is a weighted hand-axe with a rubber-gripped metal handle, for chopping wood and limbs alike. Unlike throwing hatchets, these are not balanced for use as a projectile weapon. Hatchets deal an additional 50% Limb Damage.

It has a special 'Back Slash' attack, which does 70% damage in V.A.T.S. at the cost of 17 action points (requires a Melee skill of 50).

Locations

 * Deathclaw Promontory - sometimes found on a corpse, alongside a set of unmarked T-51b power armor and Remnants power armor.
 * Freeside - Freeside thugs occasionally use them.
 * Mojave Outpost Barracks - occasionally sold by Lacey
 * Nipton - randomly carried on a dead prospector inside the Town Hall on the Assembly Floor.
 * Thorn - carried by Red Lucy.
 * The Prospector's Den - sometimes found on the corpses.
 * Vault 3 - Equipped by some Fiends.
 * Vault 19 - the escaped convicts occasionally carry them.
 * Hatchets are used widely by lobotomites.