10 gauge?[]
When you talk to Becky Fallon about shoplifters she mentions that it's "Nothing me and my ten-gauge haven't been able to handle." She carries a double-barreled shotgun, but can we trust this single instance as proof that double-barreled shotguns in the Commonwealth are 10 ga. instead of the standard 12 ga. in previous games? Furthermore, the combat shotgun uses the same ammunition as a double-barrel, so this would make it 10 ga. as well. --Kastera (talk) 03:14, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
- Just to be super semantic about the matter, this is the wasteland we are talking about. We can expect wastelanders, especially shopkeeps, to own more than a single firearm. On the other side of the spectrum, wastelanders can also be expected to be uneducated, due to their environment, and the lack of education floating about. It could be that she genuinely doesn't know the difference between the shell classifications. She might not even care. GarouxBloodline 03:30, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
- This could be true, but the fact remains that there are only two shotguns in the game, and they both use the same ammo. I would also argue that it's a necessity that wastelanders need to be acutely aware of the differences between between types of ammunition, since it could be the difference between life and death; A 10 ga. shell will be too large to fit in a 12 gauge shotgun and won't work, so you definitely don't want to be carrying around with you. Plus, every single shotgun shell I've seen has the size of the gun's bore on the brass head or the case, so it's really easy to figure out which shell is which. --Kastera (talk) 20:59, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
In the game, and usable - yes. In the Fallout universe, no. A good example is that the railway rifle is not technically in Fallout: New Vegas. But it still makes an appearance in the game as a static item. The argument being, is that there is not enough material to work with, to dispute what she is saying. And since we know for a fact that there are more than two different shotgun models that make up the newest generation of Fallout games, some of which use different shell types, then the evidence is pointing in a rather singular direction.
There is also a chance that the shotgun she is talking about is what's in-game, but has been modified to accept 10-gauge. But at this point, it's not really worth getting into that. GarouxBloodline 21:46, 15 September 2016 (UTC)