I hear a lot of talk about sniper rifles, AMRs, etc., but I haven't heard much about the Cowboy Repeater. I've actually used this gun for most of the game so far (I'm level 32ish). With hand loads, you're doing 40 damage (with -3DT on top), 50 if you take cowboy (though that perk has some steep requirements). It also has a bit of a crit bonus on top of it. Fully modded you have a decent rate of fire, decent capacity for a rifle (11), and would only be 3.5lbs (if that mod worked). Just for the heck of it, I took it out to do some sniping. The lack of a scope is a bit of a drag, but I've made quite a few decent shots with this weapon. I'm about to swap for the All-American, but this gun has lasted me 30 levels, essentially all of vanilla. That's pretty impressive, frankly.

I always go for the Brush Gun at level 16, for a rifle. Its just a beast. But I recently picked up the unique version of the cowboy repeater, and it comes with a scope. Its actually not to bad with hand load ammo and the cowboy perk. Still doesn't touch a brush gun though, and ammo isn't scarce at all if you know where to look, or how to make them.

Eh, honestly I loved it at first, then I found the AMR and havent touched it since. :shrug:

S'a good gun I have a modded one lying around somewhere I'm sure. First long range weapon I acquired got outmoded for the Hunting Rifle, then the Automatic Rifle then the Survivalist Rifle though.

That Cowboy Repeater is pretty good, but there are enough better weapons one can get for free that it usually gets outclassed before it can get any significant use.

One of my first few characters did use it for quite a while, but he wasn't going to take the Cowboy perk so it got traded in for a Brush Gun.

Because Trail Carbine and Brush Gun are more or less the same weapon with larger caliber?