Hatchet (Fallout: New Vegas)

The hatchet is a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
It is a hand-axe with a rubber-gripped wooden 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.

Special attack
It has a special Back Slash attack, which does 70% damage in V.A.T.S. at the cost of 5 less action points (requires a Melee skill of 50).

It is possible to execute Back Slash outside of V.A.T.S. (without the required Melee skill of 50 to perform the move) by initiating a power attack (hold attack button) while moving forward.

Durability
The hatchet can successfully strike about 1495 times from full condition before breaking.

Variants

 * Throwing hatchet - a variant of hatchet specifically made as a throwing weapon.
 * Tomahawk - an improvised throwing weapon added with the Honest Hearts add-on.

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.