
Early game, this will stand as the best weapon to pair with a 10mm pistol until you can find better. It's not as accurate when you're using it as a sniper weapon for very long ranges though as the bullets tend to go off target to a degree. Use this to get off shots on enemies that are far away as it's very useful in VATS. I often overlooked it my first play through, but used it much more on my second game. Another shotgun in Fallout 4 bears the name Le Fusil Terribles, which translates as "The Terrible Gun" from French.Hunting Rifle: This weapon can be accurate and powerful at range.If the weapon is placed in Charon's inventory, he will use it in combat, regardless if he has ammo for it or not.He can be killed for it, with no Karma loss, or it can be reverse-pickpocketed. This gun is carried by Smiling Jack, the non-hostile raider merchant in Evergreen Mills. Durability (number of attacks before breaking)


Damage per attack (damage per projectile) Given that one does not reload until the current magazine is expired, they will have 10 reloads before the gun begins to jam, but the gun will only have three chances to jam before it breaks. Even so, the weapon will not jam until 120 rounds are fired. The Terrible Shotgun can fire a total of about 146 rounds, the equivalent of 13 reloads, from full condition before breaking.

Add in the base damage of the weapon, and then double the damage because of the sneak attack bonus, and the weapon's total damage increases to 880 or 1240, capable of one-shotting every enemy in the base game and its add-ons. Paired with the Better Criticals perk, it can go up to 540. If all nine pellets sneak attack critical at the same time, the weapon's total critical damage is 360. The weapon has a far larger spread than normal shotguns, and full damage is only done if all pellets hit, making it most effective in close-quarters.Ĭritical hit damage with this weapon is applied to each individual pellet the Terrible Shotgun fires (outside of V.A.T.S.).

The Terrible Shotgun is a unique variant of the combat shotgun and has the second-highest damage of all weapons in the Small Guns category.
