.308 Round (Fallout: New Vegas)

The .308 round is a type of ammunition in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
It is the same as the Fallout 3 version and is still used by the sniper rifle and now the hunting rifle. However, the world model for the round was changed from a metal ammunition box to a cardboard box of bullets.

Weapons using this ammunition

 * Sniper rifle
 * Gobi Campaign scout rifle
 * Hunting rifle
 * This Machine
 * Automatic rifle
 * Christine's COS Silencer Rifle

.308, Armor Piercing
Armor-piercing rounds are designed for punching through armor plating, and for this purpose they have a greatly strengthened case with a specially hardened core and shaped nose. Due to the high velocity and penetrative properties of the round, damage to the target is slightly reduced.

.308, JSP Hand Load
Jacketed, soft point ammunition is designed with a semi-jacketed harder metal coating with a soft bullet tip. It offers an evenly managed damage and penetrative power. This round will always do more damage than armor piercing rounds when used in any weapon except the Automatic Rifle. As of patch 1.3.0.452 these rounds now only do 1.3x damage and deteriorate the gun 50% faster than normal.

.308, Hollow point
Hollow point bullets mushroom and break up on impact, causing massive trauma on fleshy, unarmored targets. However, this also means they break up when they hit things like armor plate, drastically reducing the weapon's penetrating power.

Notable locations

 * Up to 2000 rounds and a few hundred AP can be bought from Sgt. Contreras in Camp McCarran every 72 hours. This does not apply anymore if he gets incarcerated.
 * After the completion of the Dead Money add-on, the player may receive up to 20 .308 rounds (360 rounds if the player also received a complimentary voucher) from the vending machine in the abandoned Brotherhood of Steel bunker every 72 hours.