
Lastly, the Ratslayer you've mentioned is a really good early-game gun. Combine it with 5.56 hollow point bullets to tear through unarmored enemies. It has low damage but a high fire rate which makes it ideal for lightly armored targets. The Service Rifle is given as a reward for completing the Mojave Outpost quest Can you find it in your heart. One of the better guns available in the early-game. 357 rounds and can hit targets pretty well from medium range. This all-rounder can be retrieved from Primm in the Sheriff's Office. There are two decent early-game weapons that can might be useful too, especially if the lockpick requirements shown above are too intense:Ĭowboy Repeater is a decent option for the aspiring gunslinger. Consider crafting your own bullets to offset the rarity of the. Be warned, you will need a lockpick skill of 100 to retrieve it.

308 round but hits like a freight train, benefits from a scope, and has an incredibly high fire rate for a rifle. This beast of a rifle fires the uncommon. Since you've been able to get to the Brock Flower Cave to collect the Ratslayer's rifle the hidden Sniper's Nest would be within a short walking distance. Gobi Campaign Scout Rifle is one of the best guns in the game. Lucky boasts a high critical hit chance, a faster-than-normal fire rate and has low AP requirements for VATS.

This requires a lockpick skill of 75 and a trip back to the Bison Steve Hotel in Primm to acquire.

Lucky is a revolver which uses the ever-so-common. The absolute best things you can do is maximize your guns and lockpick levels to get the two unique weapons: If you're specializing in guns you have a few options here.

Melee is also a viable early-game option with weapons like Chance's Knife but this list would get really long if I included every category of weapon. Since Ratslayer seems to be the best gun you have so far I'm going to assume that you have not yet made it to Novac and thus will limit my answers to guns which can be acquired between Goodsprings (early-game) and Novac (mid-game).
