Forum:Why does Boone keep losing his weapons?

I have an interesting situation here. I recently recruited Boone as my companion and I noticed that he was using a raggedy old Hunting Rifle as his primary. I alleviated this situation by equipping him with an Assault Carbine, 12.7mm pistol and a grenade launcher each with an ample amount of ammo. Things were going well until I noticed him running around swinging a baseball bat at the enemies. I opened up his inventory and all of the guns I gave him were gone, yet the ammo and aid I gave him remained. I quickly gave him my Anti-Material Rifle with plenty of ammo, but soon enough he was running around with a damn baseball bat again and the rifle I paid 5000 caps for was no longer in his inventory. Its's also bizarre that he no longer has his special hunting rifle anymore than he seemed to always switch to when he ran out of ammo. What the hell is happening? Everytime I give Boone weapons he somehow loses them and switches to a baseball bat or machete, it's really frustrating because I have a rapsheet of weapons (expensive weapons) that i've lost because of him.

Why the hell would you switch out his special hunting rifle? Did you even try him out in combat with it before you switched? He's a BEAST with that thing, no joke. -- SanguisDiabolus 22:15, October 29, 2010 (UTC)

I've had Boone a while now and no problems. He's certainly a beast with his gun and quite frankly I've been leaving him behind on some missins as I don't ever seem to get an opportunity to kill anythin he's that good!

Is he set to using ranged weapons? Maybe you accidentally switched him to meleee and this is messing things up.Gunner Bill 07:56, October 30, 2010 (UTC)

It happened to me too. Repeatedly in fact. I just started using the console to manufacture Anti-Materiel rifles with gay abandon. I make it a point not to sell them so that I don't have unlimited cash, but whenever Boone loses that damn rifle, I just whip up another one! That said, it happened for a bit and then stopped happening. That also said, nowadays I just use him for melee with the Thermic Lance. - Burning Man 08:53, October 30, 2010 (UTC)

I noticed him last night saying "I need a new rifle" and going back to his hunting rifle. He had thrown down a brand new sniper rifle, which was suddenly in broken condition. Nothing had attacked him to break the rifle; he just fired a few shots and suddenly threw it away. This seems to be a pretty common problem from what I can see on the interwebs. --Rooker75 22:35, October 31, 2010 (UTC)