Fire axe

The fire axe is a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
Once used to hack through burning buildings, the fire axe has since been adapted to hack through people and wasteland critters. It has a moderately high damage, but its selling point is an extended attack range, which allows the player to hit targets farther away than normally permitted.

While using V.A.T.S., a special attack named 'Mauler', which does 50% damage (requires a Melee skill of 50) can knock enemies down, but costs 27 action points. 'Mauler' will sometimes knock a weapon out of an enemies hand instead of knocking them down. If you dismember an opponent, the fire axe will have a blood stain on the blade, which will disappear in a matter of seconds.

Variants

 * Knock-Knock, a unique variant that benefits from more damage and faster rate of attack.

Locations

 * Two can be found on the first floor of the Fire Department building in Camp Searchlight.
 * Two can be found on legionaries at the entrance of the Legate's camp.
 * One can be found next to the dead prospector in the sealed sewers.
 * One to three can be found in the tribal village, northwest of Goodsprings Cemetery.
 * Can be found on the corpses of White Legs bone-breakers in Zion Canyon.

Bugs

 * This weapon cannot be repaired with pool cues.
 * While in Zion, the white legs carrying one will die and the axe will be stuck in mid-air.