12 gauge shotgun shell (Fallout: New Vegas)

For an overview of 12 gauge shotgun shell types, see 12 gauge shotgun shell.
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The **12 gauge shotgun shell** is a type of ammunition in *Fallout: New Vegas* originally manufactured by Purebore before the Great War.

## Background

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## Characteristics

The Purebore Buckslayer "Shure Shot" 12 gauge shotgun shell is a large bore shotshell available in various buckshot loads and slugs. A specialized beanbag shell also exists for pacifist player characters, as well as coin shotshells. The add-on *Gun Runners' Arsenal* introduces five new varieties: 4/0 buckshot, 4/0 buckshot magnum, flechette, pulse slugs and fire damage-dealing dragon's breath shells.

### Production

Standard buckshot, magnum buckshot, 4/0 magnum buckshot, coinshot and slug 12 gauge shotshell can be crafted at a reloading bench. A single shell requires the following ingredients:
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### Breakdown

Breaking down a standard 12 gauge shotgun shell yields:
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## Weapons using this ammunition

* Hunting shotgun
* Dinner Bell
* Riot shotgun
* Sawed-off shotgun
* Big Boomer

## Variants

### 12 gauge, bean bag

Bean bag rounds are less-than-lethal shotgun ammunition commonly used by law enforcement to quell riot situations. Bean bags inflict Fatigue Damage and stun a target momentarily. For soft targets, bean bag rounds can still drain their health and kill them with multiple shots.

### 12 gauge, coin shot

Coin shot is an improvised buckshot-like round using Legion Denarii as the projectiles. The end result is ammunition identical in damage to magnum buckshot round, but one which has a chance of leaving coins in targets it damages, as well as an extra "pellet" as shown by the damage indicator when using this type of ammunition. In V.A.T.S. Denarius can be seen leaving the barrel of the weapon in certain shots. Coin shot is regarded as better ammunition for trading, due to its dramatically increased value.

### 12 gauge, magnum

Magnum shells are standard buckshot shells with a higher powder load, increasing velocity, stopping power and -2 DT reduction. The downside is greater wear to a firearm due to the higher overall pressure, resulting in more regular maintenance.

### 12 gauge, slug

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Slugs use only a single large, solid projectile, unlike shot, meaning weapon spread is traded for greater range and accuracy. These rounds also function as an armor-piercing round, as one powerful shot will deal more damage through a high DT than multiple weaker rounds.

### 12 gauge, 4/0 buck

A sub-type added with the new add-on *Gun Runners' Arsenal*, this shot sacrifices quantity for quality, with fewer, larger projectiles that pack a bigger punch.

### 12 gauge, 4/0 buck magnum hand load

A sub-type added with the new add-on *Gun Runners' Arsenal*, these magnum shells use the larger 4/0 shot size, but with a greater powder load resulting in higher velocity, thus more firepower, at the cost of increased weapon wear due to the higher pressure generated.

### 12 gauge, dragon's breath

A sub-type added with the new add-on *Gun Runners' Arsenal*, these zirconium-based pyrotechnic shells function as a short-ranged flamethrower, having an incendiary effect on targets for 5 seconds; hence the name "dragon's breath".

### 12 gauge, flechette

A sub-type added with the new add-on *Gun Runners' Arsenal*, these shells have had their traditional shot replaced with tiny metal darts that are great for armor penetration but are not quite as damaging. Flechette rounds also greatly decrease muzzle flash, allowing for more accurate aiming.

### 12 gauge, pulse slug

A sub-type added with the new add-on *Gun Runners' Arsenal*, these slugs cause more damage to robots and enemies wearing power armor, and the target gets an extra kick from an electromagnetic pulse triggered by the impact.

## Locations

* Sold by Alexander, the Vendortron, Blake, Daniel Contreras and the arms merchant, among others.
* Can occasionally be found on NCR heavy troopers.
* Occasionally found on Centurions and Prime legionaries.
* Sometimes found on Great Khans.
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## Notes

* The 12 gauge shotshell has more subtypes in *Fallout: New Vegas* than any other ammunition type.
* The full barter value of 12 gauge coin shot is equal to the value of the Legion Denarii used to craft it.
* Flechettes have substantially less muzzle flash.
* 4/0 buck rounds only have a x1 damage multiplier, yet standard 12 gauge shells have a x1.2 multiplier and magnum shells have x1.3, including the 4/0 magnum shells (these multipliers were added as part of patch 1.5 as an incentive to use them over slug rounds). As a result, 4/0 buck actually inflicts less damage than standard shells while inflicting more damage per projectile as the damage is divided evenly among them.
* While in *Fallout: New Vegas* you can use dragon's breath with the riot shotgun, in real life, this would be impossible because the round is very low power and does not produce the recoil energy necessary to load the next round, and trying to use this round with a semi-automatic or automatic shotgun would cause it to jam.
* The 12 gauge coin shot can leave denarii even when shot into a dead body.
* Despite being the same rounds, 12 gauge shells have differing appearances based on what weapon they are loaded into (see gallery for a comparison).

## Behind the scenes

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Coin shot was made by Joshua Sawyer, after he watched the Kris Kristofferson film *Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid*, in anticipation of Kristofferson voicing Chief Hanlon. In the film, Kristofferson's character kills a guard with a shotgun full of coins, with a slow-motion shot of the dimes flying out of the barrels. He also drew inspiration from *Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex*, in particular Episode 14, where Fem, a cyborg communist assassin, loads a shotgun in her arm full of a stack of coins. During an October 2020 livestream, Sawyer highlighted a penetration test performed by YouTuber Paul Harrell, which showed that coin shot is something that could work in real life, even if it would not be very effective.

## Bugs

* Template:Platforms Although 12 gauge bean bag ammunition specifies that it causes 250 points of fatigue damage, in practice each shot will only induce 50 points of fatigue. Furthermore, all shotguns inflict a minimum of 12.25 points of damage, regardless of damage penalties or effects of Damage Threshold *or* Damage Resistance. These two issues mean that attacking a target with bean bag shells will most likely result in the target's death before it is ever knocked out due to Fatigue.Template:Verify

* Additionally, bean bag shells can inflict fatigue damage on robots, something which the boxing gloves and Golden Gloves specifically avoid. This makes it possible to "knock out" robots, most of which can endure no more than 100 points of fatigue before being rendered unconscious.

* Template:Platforms 12 gauge slug shells have a listed 30% chance of dropping an empty hull, but they do not actually reference the 12 gauge hull item, so they don't actually provide 12 gauge hulls.Template:Verify

## Gallery

FNV 12 gauge shotgun shell vars.pngLeft to right;
1 - Loaded into a hunting shotgun
2 - Loaded into Dinner Bell
3 - Loaded into a riot shotgun
4 - Loaded into Big Boomer
## References

1. ↑ Dragon's breath on Wikipedia
2. ↑ *Fallout: New Vegas* 10th Anniversary Charity Stream (reference starts at 3:07:46)
Joshua Sawyer: *"'Is coin shot a real thing?' I don't know, I mean, like... so, actually, God, what's the name of the guy? [...] There's a YouTuber who has a channel that's all about guns. [...] It's Paul Harrell! [...] I feel like Paul Harrell did a penetration test with coins, I think. [...] It's a thing that you could do, but, it's not really that effective. I actually got the idea from watching... oh, God, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Movie with James Coburn and Kris Kristofferson, whomst played Chief Hanlon in the game. And there's a point in the movie where Kris Kristofferson's character picks up a shotgun that the guy guarding him uses that's filled with either dimes or quarters, or something, and he destroys him. [...] And it's a great scene, and also, yes, there's a Stand Alone Complex - Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex episode that has a woman who, she's a communist assassin basically, and her arm has a shotgun inside, and she loads it full of coins, which is really, really cool."*
3. ↑ "Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. - Fem's shotgun arm scene" on YouTube
4. ↑ "Shooting Dimes in a 12ga. Shotgun" by Paul Harrell on YouTube

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