Trying to find a nice gun that deals good damage to those Feral Ghouls while the ammo is fairly easy to get.

Gauss Rifle just drains too much ammo.

Pretty much any hollow-point weapon should do the trick nicely. If you have access to gauss rifles, you must be over level 10? In that case there should be good weapon comming your way soon, such as the anti-materiel rifle, which with incendiary ammos will pretty much 1 hit any ghoul with enough guns and a slid sneak attack critical in the head.

However, it's expensive to kill them that way.

A weapon that doesn't consume nearly any valuable ammo is the unique le kids BB gun. A sneak attack does great damage at the cost of 1 BB ammo.

Also, shotguns tend to be good against them, such as dinner bell or riot shotgun because they have no damage threshold, meaning the full force of the bullets will go straight through. A combination of a first attack of the BB gun and then killing with the shotgun consumes very little ammo-and is easy to come by.



For your gauss rifle, it's worth recycling the drained ammo you get, with high enough science. You'll also get free energy weapon ammo every now and then from the brotherhood of steel, if you find them and choose to be a friend with them.

If you're using Gauss, you specialize in Energy?

A modded Plasma Rifle works wonders, as does a modded Laser Rifle. If you want to go for uniques, the Q35 Matter Modulator and the AER-14 Prototype are the uniques for those weapons. Laser RCW is also a good choice, and is readily available for free via Fiend-hunting.

Marksman Carbine/All American.
Works for me.
Although I don't fight ghouls as much.....

My personal favorite is the 10mm SMG/pistol with JHP rounds, or Chance's Knife. For an energy weapons user, how about the Recharger Pistol? It's available for free in a cave near Goodsprings, doesn't run out of ammo, and can kill most non-glowing ones in the initial flurry of blasts.

I agree with Nuke, if your character specializes in energy weapons and you wish to save on ammo then the recharger pistol will be your best bet.
Letting it charge up then unleashing its payload in in a quick series of shots against a ghoul is bound to kill it, unless your facing a reaver in which case you should go ahead and use your Gauss Rifle.
The only other problem with using the Recharger pistol is having to eventually repair it when using it often.

The Laser RCW knocks them down in a hurry! :thumbsup: The downside is that the RCW wears out quickly when you fire it... :sweat: