Scoped .44 Magnum

The scoped .44 magnum is a version of the .44 magnum revolver upgraded with a scope.

Characteristics
The .44 magnum is a very high-powered pistol, doing 10 more points of damage than the .32 hunting rifle. It has a very long effective range, which is only supplemented by the scope, but also has a low rate of fire for a double-action revolver. It's significantly lighter than a sniper rifle and carries a single round more in capacity.

When looking through the scope and firing there will be no recoil, allowing the player to snipe multiple targets more easily than with an actual sniper rifle, but causing less damage. The firing rate is also higher then the .308 rifle, so this may make up for the lower power when used for sniping.

A fully-repaired magnum can fire 228 rounds, or 38 full cylinders, before breaking.

Variants

 * Blackhawk - Blackhawk is, arguably, the easiest unique scoped .44 to obtain. While it's much stronger than the regular .44, it is also the weakest of the unique versions. However it is the best version in the original game with no add-ons.
 * Callahan's magnum (Broken Steel add-on) - Named after famous gunfighter and security guard Harold Callahan, Callahan's magnum is the more effective version of Blackhawk, dealing more damage with less wear and tear.
 * Paulson's revolver (Mothership Zeta add-on) - Drawn by space cowboy Paulson in the hostile confines of Mothership Zeta, it lacks the scope and fires a slew of pellets instead of a single bullet.

Locations

 * In the truck left of the tent where you find the 5th Keller Family Transcript.
 * Inside Vance's office wall safe, during the Blood Ties quest.
 * On one of the skeletal remains in the Marigold Metro Station.
 * On a table a few feet away from the locked (Very Hard) door in the Broken Bow portion of Rivet City, near Pinkerton's lab
 * Inside Reilly's Rangers headquarters.
 * Mister Crowley of Underworld, Eulogy Jones of Paradise Falls, Bill Wilson of Andale, Billy Creel in Megaton, and Crow, the traveling merchant, also wields this gun.
 * In a sunken boat near the Jefferson Memorial.
 * Under a flight of stairs in the Hubris Comics printing room.
 * Near a rotting brahmin corpse in the Shalebridge Hill ant tunnels.
 * In a toilet's cistern in the ladies room of the Corporate Offices of the Vault-Tec Headquarters.
 * In the Flooded Metro, behind a large transformer, near a skeleton and a copy of Guns and Bullets.
 * On the second floor of the ruined building southeast of Tenpenny Tower, by a skeleton near a wooden shelf.
 * In a locked safe in Vault 87, with a few grenades and some purified water.
 * Old Olney Sewer in the room with the workbench on a table to the right.
 * On the top-left shelf behind Knight Captain Durga in the Citadel Armory.
 * (Point Lookout) In the north eastern part of Point Lookout, next to a skeleton, 2 frag mines, and 2 ammo boxes.
 * (Point Lookout), in Desmond's Panic Room.
 * (Broken Steel) In the Presidential Metro, at the top of a set of stairs covered in rubble, the magnum is at the top of one of these flights. It is advised to have the Pip-Boy light on, or ask Dogmeat to sniff it out, as the weapon blends in quite easily with the rubble and can be hard to spot.
 * (Broken Steel) In one of the storage areas in level 2 of the Enclave Mobile Base.

Appearances
The scoped .44 magnum appears only in Fallout 3.

Bugs

 * When zooming in and waiting at the same time, the right and left part of the screen will turn into a sky blue, while the effects of looking through the scope will be missing.

Behind the Scenes

 * Lord Humongous, the villain from the film Mad Max 2, wields a scoped .44 magnum identical to the one in the game during one scene.

Магнум кал.44 с оптическим прицелом