Lever-Action Shotgun

The lever-action shotgun is a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
Adding to the variety of shotguns found in Fallout: New Vegas, this shotgun has a lever-action (similar to the cowboy repeater) and fires a 20 gauge shotgun shell. It has the highest damage-per-second of all 20-gauge shotguns. The only real disadvantages to the lever-action are the ammunition capacity and the fact that it must be single-loaded instead of feeding from a detachable magazine.

The gun can be interrupted mid-way through reloading and fired immediately if needed. When killing an enemy with this shotgun, it has the ability to send the unfortunate target sprawling, potentially over five feet.

Durability
The lever-action shotgun can fire a total of about 495 standard shells, the equivalent of 99 reloads, from full condition before breaking.

Locations

 * Atomic Wrangler Casino - behind the check-in counter, on top of the shelves.
 * Big Horn Saloon, Boulder City - in the back room, past a locked door, sitting on on a Sunset Sarsaparilla crate.
 * Crimson Caravan guards carry them.
 * Durable Dunn's sacked caravan - on the corpse of a dead Crimson Caravan guard.
 * Executive Suites, Sierra Madre Casino
 * Great Khans may carry them.
 * Gun Runners - it can be bought from Vendortron.
 * Fiends occasionally carry them.
 * Miguel's Pawn Shop, Westside - found in the basement, on the bottom shelf of the shelving unit.
 * Mick in Mick & Ralph's wields one.

Bugs

 * Like most Lever-action Guns, the lever-action shotgun frequently suffers from a lever freeze error upon targeting in V.A.T.S. This prevents the player from shooting within V.A.T.S. and can only be fixed by player death, loading a previous save or resetting the console. Unfortunately it also appears to be re-occurring so there is no permanent solution.

Behind the scenes

 * It is modeled after the Winchester 1887.