Combat shotgun (Fallout 4)

The combat shotgun is a weapon in Fallout 4.

Characteristics
The Combat shotgun by default utilizes an eight round box magazine, but can be upgraded with an extended magazine or even a 32 round drum magazine. The weapon is semi-automatic, and being magazine fed; it does well in clearing out rooms and ripping apart enemies at close range. The combat shotgun can also be upgraded to be a fully automatic weapon, at the expense of reduced damage output on a shot per shot basis.

However, the weapon features rather heavy recoil, even when fully optimized with modifications for recoil control it still remains considerable, which can limit the weapon's ability to accurately make rapid follow on shots anywhere outside of point blank range.

The combat shotgun and combat rifle share nearly identical models, with a few differences. This may make it confusing when clearing out a room of raiders or gunners with combat rifles and shotguns.

Variants

 * Justice - sold by Penny Fitzgerald in Covenant.
 * Le Fusil Terribles - Libertalia, on top of a yellow crate in the captain's cabin.

Locations

 * Can be bought inside Diamond City and Bunker Hill.
 * May be found on the top floor of a house near Diamond City, in a shotgun trap.
 * Dropped by Mercenaries guarding Parsons State Insane Asylum, along with ammo.
 * Legendary version (Le Fusil Terribles) can be found in the captains cabin of the mission "Synth Retention" on top of a box in front of you when you walk in
 * Novice locked red toolbox in Trinity Tower Mid Level
 * Can be found in a green box inside the Federal ration stockpile.
 * Can be found inside an Expert locked chess at the end of Hugo's Hole
 * Occasionally carried by raiders.