hey guys, just wondering what you consider the best silenced pistol. this playthrough i'm gonna take benny out stealthily and i got that one perk that increases sneak criticals with pistols, so what would you go with? i was gonna use 10mm but have been searching for a LONG time to no avail for a silencer :sadvaultboy:

Been using the 12.7mm with the silencer mod. High dps/dam and a good range.

If you have Honest Hearts go for the silenced .45

12.7mm got really large spread, go 10mm and of course .45 with HH.

.45 is great, 12.7mm if you need more power.

If you don't want to run through HH just to be able to use a .45 on Benny, then just use a 10mm. If you can't find a silencer first, then it don't matter- use Lucky or Mysterious Magnum, or whatever. If you sneak up on him in his room, a silencer don't matter anyway. Just shut the door behind you, and the guards won't suspect a thing. Then sneak up to him and give 'im what for.

When used in CQC which I'm assuming considering the use of pistols for sneak attacks, spread doesn't matter.

10mm semi-auto pistol is available early on. I got good mileage out of it. Good damage, accurate, the ammo is common. No mods or DLCs needed.

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Look to Gun Runners for the mods, although I think the dinasaur guy in Novac may carry the silencer from time to time.
Edit: I should add, OP, that for some reason the silencer for the 10mm only seems to show up early in the game. In fact I recall the silencer being availble before I even had the pistol. I'm level 26 now and haven't seen the silencer anywhere (same with the laser sight) since probably level 14 or so, so best to grab it the first time you see it.

.45 silenced and the 12.7 mm are both very good. Highdps/damage

.45 pistol with silencer is pretty sweet. As said above, 12.7 if you want more punch, but it seems to have less range in VATS. And if you are in the room(presidential suite) alone with Benny, you can pick the safe by the pool table and there is a 10mm submachine gun in there. that always takes him down for me. No goons follow either. But you need 60 speech to convince him to go up to the presidential suite with you.

Because 12.7mm is really inaccurate? It have a spread of 1.1 as oppose of 0.8 on .45 and 10mm, and 10mm with Laser Sight would tighten it to 0.4.

Honestly, range doesn't really matter on a silenced pistol, you are most likely to be shooting them nearly point blank, and that is where the 12.7mm dominates.