Medicine Stick (GRA)

The Medicine Stick is a unique weapon added with the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Gun Runners' Arsenal.

Characteristics
The Medicine Stick is a variant of the brush gun. It has a long magazine tube, and a light brown stock and handguard. A medicine wheel is attached to one side of the stock. The rifle can hold 8 rounds of .45-70 Gov't, has an item HP of 200 and inflicts 78 damage in good condition with a base DPS of 108. It is reloaded by hand one bullet at a time, allowing the player to interrupt reloading mid-way. This allows the gun to be fired before reloading is complete.

Durability
The Medicine Stick can fire a total of about 995 standard rounds - the equivalent of 125 reloads - from full condition before breaking.

Variants

 * Brush gun - The common variant found in the Mojave Wasteland.

Locations

 * Gun Runners, sold by Vendortron.

Bugs

 * While reloading in third-person view, one may not see the usual lever action after reloading.
 * As with the regular brush gun, the Medicine Stick may glitch in V.A.T.S. mode, causing the cocking handle to become stuck in the downward position. The player will not fire any rounds, and will stay in the glitched state until killed. This may require a reload of a previous save.
 * The reload animation of lever action weapons does not have a corresponding jam animation, so the weapon will not jam, even at near-breaking conditions.
 * Like all round by round reloading weapons in the game, if the player switches ammo types quick enough, the animation to load a single round is played but the tube will be fully reloaded.