Boone's Scoped Hunting Rifle

 is a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
This is the rifle used by Craig Boone and is only obtainable through glitching. The ammo it uses is Magical Companion Ammo. The ammo can sometimes be looted from his body if he is killed. It has a different scope reticle than the Hunting Rifle Scope.

Location
Used by Craig Boone. He is in the mouth of the giant dinosaur in Novac. He handles the night shift of guarding the area in front of the dinosaur. You go there on the They Went That-a-Way quest.

Appearances
appears in Fallout: New Vegas.

Bugs

 * Boone might lose his rifle upon exiting one of the casinos with the player character getting it instead, when accessing Boone's inventory screen you will not be able to give it back to him. He can also lose the rifle elsewhere, and it may not appear in the player's inventory. If the player character did not receive the rifle & Boone mysteriously received a replacement weapon, remove the replacement weapon(s) from Boone's inventory & continue as normal. Boone may draw his rifle from a hidden inventory upon entering combat. His replacement weapon in most cases is a backup type weapon, such as a machete.


 * Verified on PC, PS3,and Xbox 360. Boone will randomly use a machete that was never given to him even when set to use ranged weapons. (However, this can be fixed by interacting with him, telling him to switch to using melee weapons, and then immediately back to ranged weapons.) A reason for this might be when you give him ammunition his infinite count goes to the number of bullets you put in his inventory, therefore he runs out of ammo and switches to his machete.Boone will also use the machete in close combat situations such as if the enemy gets too close for him to effectively use his rifle.


 * On PC, in order to return Boone's rifle, first, remove all items you want to keep from Boone. Then go to console (~), click on him, type "resurrect" and press enter. This will reset him to normal inventory.