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The hunting rifle is a weapon in Fallout 4.
Characteristics[]
The hunting rifle is a left-handed, bolt-action rifle commonly carried by super mutants and raiders. It can be found early in the game although these early rifles will be unmodded. Its effectiveness in the early game sections can be limited by the amount of .308 ammunition the Sole Survivor can find. The hunting rifle is a viable weapon during the early to mid-stages of the game, and can remain somewhat viable in later stages of the game as well via the use of modifications, especially when modified to fire .50 caliber ammunition, and finding a legendary variant.
From a general point of view, the hunting rifle is the game's mid-tier long-range precision weapon, reflected in its crafting perk requirements, with the hunting rifle's top-tier modifications requiring three points in Gun Nut.
The appearance of a basic, unmodified hunting rifle boasts a short barrel and a wooden stock that has apparently been sawed into a pistol grip and wrapped with a layer of duct tape at some point in the past. However, outfitting the gun with increasingly more advanced barrels and ergonomic stocks made from what seems to be polymers quickly turns it into a high-grade sniper rifle.
Weapon modifications[]
- Receiver
- Barrel
- Stock
- Magazine
- Sights
- Muzzle
Variants[]
- Reba, Barney Rook's personal rifle.
- Reba II - Rewarded for completing Gun Run.
- Tinker Tom Special - Sold by Tinker Tom in the Railroad HQ.
Locations[]
- Raiders, Minutemen, Gunners and super mutants often carry variants of this weapon.
- A hunting rifle may be found at Walden Pond, in the sewer on top of a duffle bag. This is the closest guaranteed hunting rifle spawn to Sanctuary Hills.
- Abraham Finch carries one.
- A hunting rifle variant is on top of a kiosk at College Square.
- A hardened hunting rifle with a full stock, long barrel and medium scope can be found on the roof of a red rocket station just northeast of College Square. Stairs are located at the rear of the building.
- At the steeple of the Old North Church, a rifle identical to the one at the College Square red rocket will be found provided that the neighborhood between Cabot House and the church was not visited first.
- One may be found in Kendall Hospital, after taking the elevator up to the sixth floor it will be on a shelf in the room to the left of the machinegun turret.
- One may be found near Skylanes Flight 1981. On the rocky hills south of the flooded entrance, there is a Vault-Tec van and a skeleton holding a hunting rifle.
- One can be found at the Mass Pike Tunnel, entrance from the Boston Police rationing site as passed the generator room and the corridor with a single mole rat, turn left at the locked door with a terminal into a small room with a military skeleton.
- One can be found the roof of the Red Rocket gas station north of the Nahant Sherrif's Department.
- Arturo Rodriguez sells two to three rifles. The mods vary according to the player's level.
- One on a table in Vault 75, in a bottleneck area to the northwest.
Notes[]
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- There is no bipod modification, although one of the loading screens shows said bipod. A bipod modification was cut from the final release, and is unobtainable in-game even with console commands.
- The bipod can only be "obtained" by placing the Rifle at the players position with the ID 00214001. This is the static object the game uses for the loading screen. It can not be used as a weapon. Once spawned, it cannot be moved via the Workshop, and would require commands to move or delete.
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- A hunting rifle with a short barrel and scope changes the name to "scoped hunting rifle." When a long barrel is attached, it changes the name to "sniper rifle."
- The long light barrel is considerably thicker than the standard barrel.
- The long light barrel has 2 bores clipping with each other, this is because the inner-barrel and the fluted outer-barrel both have fully modeled bores, which are not completely aligned. This can be most easily be seen by looking into the barrel, where a partial rim from the fluted outer barrel can be seen.
- On a Fallout 4 promotional image, the hunting rifle on the Sole Survivor's back appears to be right handed despite it being the opposite in gameplay.[1]
- Rechambering the weapon to load .50 caliber rounds changes its gunshot sound effect.
- The hunting rifle will still visually use .308 caliber magazines when modified to use .50 caliber rounds.
- When modified with a marksman's stock, the rifle's buttstock and grip slightly resembles that of the sniper rifle from Fallout 3 or Fallout: New Vegas.
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