Desert Eagle .44 (Fallout)

The Desert Eagle is a small gun in Fallout and Fallout 2.

Characteristics
The Desert Eagle serves as an excellent mid-game pistol, offering higher damage than the old 10mm, and a fairly common ammunition type. It out-ranges the .44 Magnum revolver by a bit and carries 2 more rounds in a magazine, but the .44 Magnum does more damage and can be fired for fewer AP. Overall, this weapon is great until a needler pistol or .223 pistol can be found. It could be replaced by a 14mm pistol, but only with an armor-piercing fix patch.

Variants
In Fallout 2, it can be upgraded with an extended magazine, increasing its ammunition capacity to 20 rounds.

Fallout

 * Killian Darkwater, mayor of Junktown, has and sells one.
 * One of Daren Hightower's thugs, the one wearing leather armor.
 * Two thugs protecting Jain in the Hub have one each.
 * Garl, the leader of the Khans, has one.
 * Several Khans, Gwen, Alya, Diana, Petrox, and Tolya all have one.
 * Carried by scribes in Lost Hills.
 * One is carried by Smitty in Adytum.

Fallout 2

 * Carried by Tyler in the Den.
 * Also sold by Tubby at Tubby's.
 * Given as a quest reward for getting a plow for Mr. Smith in Vault City.
 * Any member of the Vault City guard has a Desert Eagle for a sidearm.
 * Sold by Lou in the Malamute Saloon in Redding.
 * Used by all armed Enclave mechanics at Navarro, in tandem with Wattz 1000 pistols.
 * Can be obtained by looting the corpse of the officer Jack in NCR, during "Take care of Officer Jack" for Mira. He can either be killed, allowed to blow himself up, or pickpocketed in the same building close to Dorothy and her robot Toto.

Behind the scenes
Chris Taylor professed this was his favorite gun during the development of Fallout, which is why it was included. It alongside the 9mm Mauser were the only weapons based completely on real world equivalents.