Grenade Rifle

The grenade rifle is a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
The grenade rifle, as implied by its name, launches 40mm grenades at a respectable distance. Although it has a longer range than regular hand grenades, its ammunition lacks explosive punch, so it does less damage than a regular grenade. It's break-action, so to reload it, you need to crack it open and load another grenade after every shot. It has a Strength requirement of 3 unlike the grenade launcher.

The grenade rifle can fire a total of 495 grenades from full condition before breaking.

Mods

 * Grenade rifle long barrel - Doubles effective range.

Variants

 * Thump-Thump - found in Nellis Air Force Base, on the generator room floor.
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 * Great Bear grenade rifle A unique variant added in Lonesome Road.
 * Red Victory grenade rifle A unique variant also added in Lonesome Road.

Locations

 * In Nipton, in a house east of Nipton General Store in a Very Easy locked safe, along with a copy of Patriot's Cookbook and some 40mm grenades.
 * Can be found on Boomers. In addition, there are two free grenade rifles on the bodies of the two Boomers in the Nellis Array, and one to be stolen in Pearl's barracks.
 * Sold by Lacey in the barracks at the Mojave Outpost.
 * Carried by Oscar Velasco.
 * In The Tops presidential suite, in an averaged locked safe.
 * Sold by Blake at the Crimson Caravan Company.
 * Dropped by several Fiends in Vault 3.
 * Carried by some Jackal gang leaders and members after the recent patch.
 * Vipers often carry them, and they can frequently be found on Vipers at Horowitz farmstead and Raided Farmstead.

Behind the scenes
The grenade rifle is based on the real world M79 grenade launcher from the early sixties.