Hunting Rifle (Fallout 3)

The Hunting Rifle is a Small Guns bolt action rifle found in Fallout 3.

Weapon Skin
It is a Mauser-type bolt-action rifle, and resembles such venerable models as the Remington 700, Winchester 70 series, and. It uses the .32 Caliber Round.

Appearances

 * The .32 Hunting Rifle appears only in Fallout 3, replacing the Colt Rangemaster Hunting Rifle from previous games.

Locations

 * Sheriff Lucas Simms' House has a damaged rifle sitting on a shelf in a room upstairs. Door requires 50 lockpick, you can pickpocket the house key from Lucas Simms, or you can use an empty, upturned metal barrel (carried to and placed near the Water Processing Plant railing) to jump onto Lucas Simms' roof and enter his house via the roof hatch (which is never locked) to his lookout point.
 * There is a damaged rifle located behind Springvale School amongst a pile of nuclear waste barrels (within a fenced-in area with a locked gate), or you can just enter the house during the day if you saved Megaton.
 * The hunting rifle is almost exclusively the only firearm used by normal super mutants.
 * The hunting rifle can also be found on low level raiders.
 * Most (if not all) animal hunters encountered randomly carry this weapon.
 * This weapon can also be found frequently in downtown Washington, DC.

Trivia

 * It is interesting to note that while this is a very accurate weapon, the in-game weapon model does not have rear or front sights, nor does it have a scope. In reality, this would make the weapon extremely difficult to aim at longer ranges and would render it almost totally worthless beyond close-range encounters, even to a skilled marksman.


 * It is possibly the most ramshackle weapon in the game, appearing to be coming apart and held together with duct tape. Other weapons in the game are either rusted or scratched. It is possible that some people, such as certain brotherhood members, are actually capable of constructing this weapon given its over all simplicity in build.


 * Very similar looking to the rifles the main characters use in the earlier part of Dawn Of The Dead (1979)