Big Boomer

The Big Boomer is a unique weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
The Big Boomer is a unique sawed-off shotgun with the same break action, 12 gauge that fires both shells at a time, delivering 14 pellets at a time instead of the typical 7 of other shotguns.

Like the common sawed-off shotgun, the Big Boomer has the same general characteristics with high burst damage, low damage-per-second, high weapons spread, but slightly better statistics. The only big difference is that the common sawed-off shotgun is classified as a holdout weapon, where as the Big Boomer is not.

Variants

 * Sawed-off shotgun, a common variant found throughout the Mojave Wasteland.

Location

 * The Big Boomer is carried by Old Lady Gibson, who resides in the Gibson Scrapyard.
 * The weapon can be acquired via pickpocketing, shooting it out of her hand, or killing her for it

Bugs

 * When in first person view, the weapon looks fine, but when in third person view, the grip of the gun can be detached from the two barrels.
 * When determining the damage in V.A.T.S. the damage threshold seems to be entirely ignored, overstating the damage potential on targets wearing armor drastically.
 * In unpatched versions, it can be bought from Mick & Ralph's.

Behind the scenes
Within the games files exists a unused texture for the Big Boomer. It uses the Fallout 3 model and only differs from that in the color of the wood and the words Big Boomer written down the side of the handgrip.