12.7mm round

12.7mm rounds are a rare type of ammunition that was manufactured before the Great War by Hauer Premium, and can be found in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
The Hauer Premium Show Stopper 12.7mm civic defense round is a consumer-grade pistol round. In essence, these rounds consist of a big flat bullet in a straight case, with a rebated rim. While they have an identical bullet diameter to the military-grade .50 caliber, the much smaller case means it holds less powder and can be safely used in man-portable auto-loading weapons.

Weapons using this ammunition

 * 12.7mm pistol
 * 12.7mm submachine gun
 * 12.7mm submachine gun (GRA)
 * Survivalist's rifle
 * Li'l Devil

12.7mm round, 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.

12.7mm round (hand load) (GRA)
A new type of ammunition added with the add-on Gun Runners' Arsenal, JHP, or jacketed hollow point, uses a metal-clad bullet that retains most of the damage bonus of ordinary hollow point rounds, but with a less severe armor penalty.

12.7mm round (junk)
Junk rounds are makeshift bullets made from materials commonly found while scavenging, such as scrap metal and tin cans. Junk rounds are only good as a last resort ammo-type, as firing them causes extra wear on the firearm, and do all around less damage.


 * Crafting

Notable locations

 * Vendortron, at moderately low levels.
 * Knight Torres, at the Hidden Valley bunker.
 * The arms merchant at the 188 trading post, semi-regularly sells 12.7mm ammunition.
 * One can find 10-30 rounds in the Bloodborne cave. Two twelve-round boxes, one by each 12.7mm weapon in the cave's hidden cache.
 * Daniel Contreras, at Camp McCarran, sells these round at fairly low levels, and in high amounts.
 * Cliff Briscoe, at Novac, sells these rounds at higher levels.
 * Great Khans. legionaries and Fiends will occasionally carry some rounds.
 * Quartermaster Bardon at Hoover Dam sells these rounds in high amounts (1,000-3,000 at a time).

Bugs

 * Buying a case box 12.7mm from the Gun Runners will sometimes cause the game to crash.
 * 12.7mm JHP rounds are simply listed as '12.7mm round (GRA)'.