12.7mm pistol

The 12.7mm pistol is a weapon .
==Background==
==Characteristics==
The 12.7mm pistol fires and reloads like a 9mm pistol but does much higher damage. It has the third-highest base damage-per-second (DPS) value of any non-energy pistol in Fallout: New Vegas, bested only by A Light Shining in Darkness (144.4) and Lil' Devil (146.3) . The drawbacks are poor accuracy (it has the highest weapon spread of any pistol in the game, comparable to even some automatic weapons) and that it is not considered a holdout weapon.
===Durability===
The 12.7mm pistol has the same durability as the less powerful 10mm pistol; it can fire a total of about 395 standard rounds, the equivalent of 57 reloads, from full condition before breaking.
===Modification===
* 12.7mm pistol silencer - Silences the weapon.
==Variants==
* Li'l Devil - a unique variant sold by Mick at Mick & Ralph's in Freeside.
===Comparison===
==Locations==
* Brewer's beer bootlegging - one has a chance to spawn in the gun cabinet near the cellar door, the key to the gun cabinet can be found under a Big Book of Science.
* Gun Runners - it can be bought from Vendortron from level 11.
* Hidden Valley bunker - it can sometimes be bought from Knight Torres.
* Hoover Dam - Cassandra Moore carries one in poor condition and some NCR troopers carry them as well in average condition.
* Fiends, Great Khans, Legionary assassins and NCR troopers are known to sometimes wield 12.7mm weapons. The 12.7mm pistols they use are usually in very poor condition.
** Great Khans - The best place to find Great Khans wielding them is in Red Rock Canyon.
** Caesar's Legion - They can be obtained from Legion soldiers at the Fort. Veteran legionaries and decani sometimes carry at them at high enough levels.
** NCR - the NCR troopers in the Hoover Dam visitor center and Hoover Dam offices carry these even at lower levels (level 7), also during the final assault on Hoover Dam, they can be seen wielding the weapon quite frequently.
** White Legs in Zion Canyon will carry them if the player character is at a sufficient level.
* Bloodborne cave - there is one in the second chamber after the legendary night stalker, found in a group of mushrooms across from the dead NCR trooper.
==Behind the scenes==
* The 12.7mm pistol is a reimagining of the classic 14mm pistol from both Fallout and Fallout 2, with the caliber changed from 14mm to 12.7mm, so that players would intuit its real life equivalent to the .50 AE. pistol cartridge.
** This pistol in New Vegas has its magazine loaded into the grip like most conventional handguns, such as the 9mm pistol, rather than being inserted into a well located ahead of the trigger as was the case with the Fallout and Fallout 2 version.
* The files for the 12.7mm pistol's firing sounds refers it as "pistolhowda." A "howdah" often is the term used to describe a large-caliber, break-action pistol.
** Texture and mesh files name the 12.7mm as "booyah."
==Gallery==
FNV12.7mm Silencer.png|12.7mm pistol with the silencer modification
12_7mm_pistol.jpg
127mm pistol back shot.jpg
127mm pistol side shot.jpg
==References==
Non-game
Category:Fallout: New Vegas Guns skill weapons
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