Scoped .44 Magnum

The Scoped .44 Magnum is a version of the .44 Magnum Revolver upgraded with a scope.

Variants

 * Blackhawk - Blackhawk is, arguably, the easiest unique Scoped .44 to obtain. While it's much stronger than the regular .44, it is also the weakest of the unique versions. However it is the best version in the original (vanilla) game with no add-ons.
 * Callahan's Magnum (Broken Steel add-on) - Named after famous gunfighter and security guard Harold Callahan, Callahan's Magnum is the more effective version of Blackhawk, dealing more damage with less wear and tear.
 * Paulson's Revolver (Mothership Zeta add-on) - Drawn by space cowboy Paulson in the hostile confines of Mothership Zeta, it lacks the scope and fires a slew of pellets instead of a single bullet.


 * The table below compares all the .44 Magnum revolvers.

Locations

 * In the truck left of the tent where you find the 5th Keller Family Transcript.
 * Inside Vance's office wall safe, during the Blood Ties quest.
 * On one of the skeletal remains in the Marigold Metro Station.
 * On a table a few feet away from the locked (Very Hard) door in the Broken Bow portion of Rivet City, near Pinkerton's lab
 * Inside Reilly's Rangers headquarters.
 * Mister Crowley of Underworld, Eulogy Jones of Paradise Falls, Bill Wilson of Andale, Billy Creel in Megaton and Crow, the traveling merchant, also wields this gun.
 * In a sunken boat near the Jefferson Memorial.
 * Under a flight of stairs in the Hubris Comics printing room.
 * Sometimes sold by Gustavo in Tenpenny Tower (takes a long time to restock: see Lucky Harith notes below).
 * Near a rotting Brahmin corpse in the Shalebridge Hill ant tunnels.
 * In a toilet's cistern in the ladies room of the Corporate Offices of the Vault-Tec Headquarters.
 * Upgrading Lucky Harith's caravan will cause him to reliably stock one or more.
 * In the Flooded Metro, behind a large transformer, near a skeleton and a copy of Guns and Bullets.
 * On the second floor of the ruined building SE of Tenpenny Tower, by a skeleton near a wooden shelf. Nb, Outside this building is a Random Encounter location.
 * In Vault 108 where it may be equipped by one of the Gary clones.
 * In a locked safe in Vault 87, with a few grenades and some Purified Water.
 * Old Olney Sewer in the room with the workbench on a table to the right.
 * On the top-left shelf behind Knight Captain Durga in the Citadel Armory.
 * In Rocksalt's safe in the Tepid Sewer.
 * (Point Lookout) In the north eastern part of Point Lookout, next to a skeleton, 2 frag mines, and 2 ammo boxes.
 * (Point Lookout), in Desmond's Panic Room.
 * (Broken Steel) In the Presidential Metro, at the top of a set of stairs covered in rubble, the magnum is at the top of one of these flights. It is advised to have the Pip-Boy light on, or ask Dogmeat to sniff it out, as the weapon blends in quite easily with the rubble and can be hard to spot.
 * (Broken Steel) In one of the storage areas in level 2 of the Enclave Mobile Base.

Ammunition
The .44 ammunition is somewhat rare in Fallout 3 and though the Scoped .44 Magnum has power, you may wish to conserve this ammunition type to use with the Blackhawk, Lincoln's Repeater, Callahan's Magnum and Paulson's Revolver if obtained and kept.

Usually people who sell arms and ammo, such as in Megaton and the armory in the Citadel, will restock on .44 rounds after 2-7 days.

One easy place is from Chief Gustavo in Tenpenny Tower or Flak 'N Shrapnel's in Rivet City. They often restock around 30 bullets every 4 days or so. Just use the wait function.

The easiest way to insure that most of the major weapons and ammo merchants - such as Flak 'N' Shrapnel's - carry/are stocked with plenty of .44 Ammo, is to speak with Ernest Roe at Canterbury Commons and then to invest as much as you can in Lucky Harith. So long as Lucky (or his brahmin and guard) remains alive and trading, all merchants at all stops on the Merchant Empire trade route will benefit from your "investments" and will stock more of the higher grade and rarer weapons and ammo.

Ammo for the .44 is very simple to acquire for players who have downloaded The Pitt DLC. Players can use the Ammo Press to create .44 Ammo by using more common ammo types (such as 10mm or 5mm if they are not a Big Guns user).

If you keep Sydney alive, she usually has a large supply of .44 Magnum ammunition in her inventory.

Appearances
The .44 Scoped Magnum appears only in Fallout 3.

Bugs

 * When zooming in and waiting at the same time, the right and left part of the screen will turn into a sky-blue, while the effects of looking through the scope will be missing.

Behind the Scenes

 * Lord Humongous, a villain from the film Mad Max 2, wields a scoped .44 magnum during one scene.

Магнум кал.44 с оптическим прицелом