Bolt-action rifle

The bolt-action rifle will deteriorate when left outdoors, under the usual conditions.
== Acquisition ==
Bolt-action rifles can be purchased from outlanders and orbital combat suppliers, or obtained from the following raider kinds:
Raider Kind 	Chance	Average Quality	Health
Scavenger gunner	11.67%	Normal 	40-110%
Pirate gunner 	22.61%	Normal 	70-230%
Town guard 	18.63%	Normal 	60-200%
Mercenary gunner	12.17%	Normal 	70-320%
Ancient soldier 	10.28%	Normal 	100%
A single example is also given at the beginning with Crashlanded scenario.
== Analysis ==
With a range of 36.9 tiles, the bolt-action rifle has extremely good range - the 2nd highest in the game, only beaten by an actual sniper rifle. It also has great accuracy, even beating the charge lance. In addition, the bolt-action rifle is able to stagger humans, cougars, and all insectoids. This makes it great as a hunting weapon, for field engagements (e.g. attacking siege camps), or as a general support weapon.
However, the bolt-action rifle performs poorly in close ranges. In close quarters, it is easily outclassed by the likes of the revolver and autopistol, let alone any sort of burst-fire weapon. 
Because this gun is most effective at a distance, a competent shooter is required to get the most use out of it. This is because a pawn's own Shooting Accuracy, which is in part dependent on Shooting skill, is more important when the target is further away. For example, a baseline Shooting 0 pawn has a × multiplier on their real chance to hit a target 30 tiles away, regardless of the weapon used. A Shooting 8 pawn has × multiplier from the same distance. With Shooting 0, it wouldn't matter if their gun had 10% accuracy or 80% accuracy, they'd struggle with hitting anything from 30 tiles.
=== Stats ===
Against an unarmored human, a bolt-action rifle can kill with 3 hits to the torso, 2 hits to the head or neck, or 1 hit to the brain; cripple or destroy limbs in 2 hits; and destroy eyes and digits with a single hit. It'll generally take around 4 hits (~14.5 seconds average) to incapacitate that human from pain shock. 
Overall, the bolt-action rifle is best paired with a careful shooter up to level 13, then with a trigger-happy shooter beyond that point. 
== Bolt-action rifle vs. comparable weapons ==
This section goes over how well the bolt-action rifle fares against comparable weapons (similar value, tech level or similar characteristics) in 1 vs. 1 combat. 
=== Methodology ===
* All testing is semi-automated which allows for large sample sizes to be gathered per set of results with ease
* All pawns have skill levels of 14 in ranged and melee
* No pawns have any traits that affect combat performance
* All pawns are of at least 18 years of age and completely healthy
* Pawns are divided by walls to prevent stray shots from skewing results in any way
* Weather is always kept clear
* No cover is used for either team
Results in the tables below are the percentages of battles that bolt-action rifles either won or tied against the weapon listed in the first column of said tables, with a sample size of 2,000 battles per result. Higher percentages are better.
==== Unarmored ====
For the unarmored testing, all pawns wore normal quality plainleather pants, plainleather button-down shirts, plainleather dusters and plainleather cowboy hats.
Other Weapon 	3 	7 	12 	18 	25 	32 	40
Sniper Rifle 	72.94%	73.11%	70.76%	67.98%	64.76%	63.01%	-
Assault Rifle	14.70%	13.75%	14.55%	20.45%	27.29%	- 	-
Revolver 	25.94%	35.20%	44.38%	58.87%	79.46%	- 	-
==== Armored ====
For the armored testing, all pawns wore normal quality flak pants, flak vests, plainleather button-down shirts, flak jackets and steel simple helmets.
Other Weapon 	3 	7 	12 	18 	25 	32 	40
Sniper Rifle 	73.07%	70.27%	68.81%	64.03%	61.41%	59.91%	-
Assault Rifle	20.85%	23.55%	22.40%	27.77%	32.62%	- 	-
Revolver 	32.68%	40.00%	48.04%	64.51%	81.97%	- 	-
== Version history ==
* Approximately A9 - Renamed from Lee-Enfield to Survival rifle.
* A16 - Renamed from Survival rifle to Bolt-action rifle
* Beta 19/1.0 - Barrel melee attack damage reduced 10 -> 9, cooldown increased from 1.9s -> 2s. Stock cooldown increased from 1.8 -> 2.
* 1.0 - Accuracy was nerfed in Prior to that, it was the most accurate weapon in-game, capable of reaching 100% accuracy at all ranges above Masterwork quality.
LeeEnfield.png|The first texture of the bolt-action/survival rifle.
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