Gobi Campaign scout rifle

The Gobi Campaign scout rifle is a unique weapon .
==Background==
The weapon was issued to a member of the United States Armed Forces participating in the Gobi Desert military campaign in China before the Great War.
By 2281, it came to be stored in a gun case under the shelter of a sniper's nest that's set up and used by the NCR to spy on the Legion camp in the nearby Cottonwood Cove.
==Characteristics==
Reflecting its original purpose for desert combat, the rifle is coated in a desert-scheme camouflage with a black rubber eye-piece on the scope and comes pre-equipped with a 3.5x-magnification scope, an extended magazine, a slightly shorter barrel and a maintenance kit stored in the stock."Maintenance kit" written on the stock of the weapon
Compared to the standard sniper rifle, the Gobi Campaign scout rifle does slightly more damage, has a higher DPS, has a lower weapons spread, fires more rapidly, degrades slower and has greatly increased critical hit damage. Its reduced AP cost can also be very useful for squeezing an extra shot into a V.A.T.S. sequence. However, the major downsides are that it cannot be suppressed, and weapons to repair it are severely limited without the Jury Rigging perk. Like most unique weapons, it cannot be modified. 
===Durability===
The Gobi Campaign scout rifle can fire a total of about 795 standard rounds, the equivalent of 133 reloads, from full condition before breaking.
==Variants==
* Sniper rifle - the standard variant found throughout the Mojave Wasteland.
* Christine's CoS silencer rifle - a unique, silenced variant found near Little Yangtze in Big MT. 
===Comparison===
==Location==
The weapon can be found inside a Very Hard-locked gun case next to an ammo box in the sniper's nest northwest of Cottonwood Cove. If one attempts and fails to use the "Force Lock" option to open it, there is no key associated with it and the weapon becomes unobtainable unless a previous save is used.
==Gallery==
Gobi Campaign scout rifle.jpg
SN_Gobi_Campaign_scout_rifle.jpg|The rifle at the Sniper's nest
==References==
Category:Fallout: New Vegas Guns skill weapons
Category:Fallout: New Vegas unique weapons
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