The Pistols of Fallout | Revolvers 

Gunther’s big iron is undoubtedly a reference to Texas red from the song ‘big iron’ in not only the name and color of the gun but the 20 notches on the gun are probably a reference to the line “and the notches on his pistol numbered one and 19 more” also obtaining it from a quest where you go around a fake town robbing people because he’s the outlaw the ranger is after

what I always thought was funny is that in fallout shelter the .32 pistol only does 1-2 damage and has a variant that literally only does 1 damage, so getting shot by the .32 is apparently the same amount of pain as getting punched

The 0451 code is actually not a reference to Fahrenheit 451. It was simply the code to the system shock developer's office door.

I think you forgot the 5.56 pistol from New Vegas, it's effected by cowboy and fires the bullets from a cylinder instead of a magazine

I applaud the thing of beauty that you created in FO 76.

The Ranger Sequoia reminds me of a story I have from playing modded Fallout 4 with a childhood friend: I tend to prefer energy weapons, but they always love the cowboy style of weapons and the whole aesthetic of the NCR Desert Rangers. I don't remember the exact circumstances, but they having some rough times and I decided to treat them next time they came over to play with me. I installed a mod that added the Hunting Revolver with a Ranger Sequoia unique, went with their character to get the Sequoia, then set up a footlocker at their base with the weapon inside before returning to the position they left off at when they last played. They really appreciated it, when we were able to play together again. Because of this, the Sequoia always makes me think of them.

Colt single action reproductions are commonly chambered in 357. The Casual revolver looks like a freedom arms 454 which is a beefed up single action.

8:37 there is special type of ammo called rat shot/snake shot that is used for pest control, it is basically a miniature shotgun shell

I think Nuka World would totally give a child a live firearm. They had a Black Mamba in the petting zoo (even if it was an "accident").

Two things about the duel with one eyed Ike: 1. He fires a laser that if I remember correctly hurts meaning they where actually hitting children with real lasers, so giving them a real pistol seems about in the same lane. 2. Because of the said laser it is rigged in Ike’s favor continuing the tradition of rigged carnival games.

8:36 There are 'snake shot' shells made in the following calibers: .22LR, 38/.357, 44 spl / mag, 45 Colt, 9mm and others. I load my own using #12 shot but most manufactured is made with #8 or # 9. Also 45 'Long' Colt does not exist. It is simply 45 Colt.

Paulsons revolvers shotgun affect is called "snake shot" IRL. Snake shot can be made in most modern pistol calibers

blunderbusses would often be loaded with regular musketballs. they were primarily used as short-barreled muskets for naval boarding. the flared muzzle is to assist with loading.

Issue with the fanning the hammer automatic .44 animation in fallout 4 is that it doesnt have third person animations so you just BRRRT all the bullets out with no anims to match (Also it breaks if you get any reanimations)

I can't help but wonder if anyone has had a Magnum Research BFR .45-70 custom embellished to look like a Ranger Sequoia. If I was in a position to have that done, I _absolutely_ would.

10:25 that skeleton had an...interesting final moment with that desk fan.

Love revolvers. I used to own a .357 Magnum until I gave it away. Would love to own a Single Action Army.

The scoped .44 revolvers in Fallout 3 are an homage to The Road Warrior aka Mad Max 2 from 1981. The main villain Lord Humungous carries one as his personal weapon.

Dude the Ranger Sequoia is the king. Man that is my favorite revolver. In my opinion it’s a bummer that we have to use the “Shady Sands shuffle” to get it from a Ranger & Chief Hanlon(or if Hanlon shoots himself. Which leads to a bad ending for the Rangers). It would be cool if Hanlon gave you the rank of Ranger in the NCR(if you didn’t turn him in). Then he gave you a free Ranger Sequoia & non-disguise ranger coat. Plus the fully upgraded revolver from F4 is awesome too. Another crazy cannon. 😎👍🏼

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27:55 funny enough, it might not be missing its rear sights. As a police pistol, it may be designed and intended for extremely close shooting, and as such just has a rough “left-right” helping sight.

The funnel shape tip of a blunderbuss is to allow the easy reloading of shot or powder in the dark, or while running or standing on a violently pitching ship at sea. It has no effect on shot spread, there are even a few rifles with the same wide muzzle tip

funny thing is the .44 magnum was the most powerful handgun in the world when that movie came out. Now it's outclassed by the .500 nitro and the Magnum research desert eagle chambered in .50 AE and their BFR revolver chambered in .45-70

Having revolvers in a post apocalyptic setting makes a lot of sense, since they are really reliable and durable.

Considering that .38 might be the most common ammunition in Fallout 4, it's a real shame that there is no .38 revolver in the game besides the Pipe Revolver. A .38 single or double action would be a decent early-game alternative to the 10mm.

Most people credit the spread of 0451 to it having been the door code at Looking Glass Studios. People who worked there worked on all the games mentioned and many more where the code was also used including Fallout 4. There's even an achievement in Deathloop for trying the code on locked doors. Yes, the code was originally chosen as a reference to Ray Bradbury's story to make it easy for a bunch of nerds to remember.

The Casull from _Tactics_ looks to be the Freedom Arms Model 83, considered by every gunwriter I've read from, to be the most accurate bigbore sixgun ever made.

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The Gunther's big iron is probably a reference to big iron by Marty Robbins, the song mentions the notches of a pistol being 1 and 19 more which the pistol has, plus the name big iron is pretty obvious. Also the song is one everyone knows from New Vegas.

I believe one of the FO3 nods is also a nod to Snake Plissken because he uses Scoped magnums in Escape from LA (terrible movie) and the character on the alien ship wore a jacket with the same designed snake that Plissken has on his stomach.

I remember the .44 in FO3 and the fact that there was no blast shield on the frame behind the cylinder to shield the shooters face from flying primers and such in the event of a cookoff,

"Gunther's Big Iron" containts two references to Marty Robbins's "Big Iron." The first is the name, the second is the 1 and 19 more notches on the gun.

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From a realism standpoint it makes sense why the 44. can’t fan the hammer. Fanning the hammer comes from when single action revolvers were the only option but even then it was only used as trick to entertain people. Fanning wouldn’t work if the revolver was a double action because the cylinder will only rotate as the trigger is pulled. So you’d basically just be trying to shoot the same spent cartridge. But it’s the fallout universe so logic is nonexistent so it still could be a thing all things considered

Fallout 2 revolver is actually really accurate for me, I didn't even realise it had the lowest range of all pistols

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I always thought Dry Rock Gulch was supposed to be a guided tour type of event and Ike duels an employee tour guide instead of a guest

4:30 the Model 19 somehow weighing more than a Deagle makes my brain feel hurty. The _lightest_ model of Deagle, which didnt exist when Fallout was made, is still over a pound heavier than the heaviest Model 19 variant. The standard Mark XIX in the game is IRL about two and a half pounds heavier than the 4" Model 19 pictured in game.

For the .44 magnum that Paulsen gives you, it might be using a round type called duplex (which a round in which two bullets are loaded into the round and split apart from each other after exiting the barrel). A fallout 4 mod called Combined arms had them as an option for ammo type in the weapons workbench for the weapons that mod added.

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The casull revolver is prolly based on the Freedom Arms Model 83 Field

I always thought that the western revolver is a reference to the incident that prompted Disney to disallow guests to wear costumes in the park, when a kid brought a real gun to the Superman Stops a Bank Robbery live event and tried to shoot George Reeves.

Fallout 3's scoped magnum is a reference to Mad Max 2 and the gun Lord Humungus uses.

Another interesting, educational and entertaining video. it's a great combination because it includes the different Fallout games as well as the history of the guns. Thanks.

Pistols are my forever build. Revolvers. Every game. I can't help it, they make Duno smile, revolvers.

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One thing to note the scope on the 3 revolver is a mad max reference

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The Casull in Tactics is either a Magnum Research BFR or (less likely IMO) a Freedom Arms model 83.

When the .44 Magnum cartridge was first designed, it was the most powerful pistol cartridge in the world, but it has since been surpassed by larger cartridges such as .50 AE and .500 S&W

I’ve actually encountered one of those .32 top break s&w clones at a gun store, I wish I bought it

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Is that FDR in the radio sound with the geiger sound. Snarf, I've asked a few times now.

Quick correction for Mr. RadKing: the use of 451 as a code originated in System Shock, and was not a reference to Fahrenheit 451, but due to the fact it was the code to the door of the office of the studio that made it, Looking Glass, though the Gainer itself is most likely a reference to this and Fahrenheit 451

The "Casull" is actually modeled after the Freedom Arms model 73, the first production .454 Casull revolver on the market. Also .454 Casull is far more powerful than .44 Magnum. .454 Casull has more energy at 100 yards than .44 Magnum does at the muzzle.

I was struck by that date mentioned for the black powder pistol, so I had to check. But yeah a single shot percussion cap pistol would be a little archaic for 1850. Black powder weapon would make sense for a post apocalypse, though. They're easier to create, and the ammunition can be crafted with nothing more than some molds and a campfire, as opposed to requiring special presses for brass-cased ammo. There was a show about an apocalypse that wiped out all electronic technology and the main authority used muskets, because they could make them and reload them without needing electrically-powered machines. More modern guns did exist, but the ammunition was hard to find, since no new ammo could be made. There was one scene where a rebel with a modern sniper rifle was really cleaning house on some of the authority soldiers, until he ran out of the 10 or 15 rounds he had.

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A fun fact Im sure someone else has commented by now: Even when it's a single large projectile, the projectile part of the ammunition of black powder firearms like muskets, blunderbusses, and cannons is still called shot as long as it's just metal(round shot, grapeshot, chainshot, ect), where explosive ammunition like might be used in a hand mortar or cannon is where the term shell originates in reference to ammunition(as far as Im aware)

Love hearing the dark choir music from the Nucleus in the intro.

In the Creation Club of Fallout 4, the 'settlement attack' content has named bears at the end of a set. They feature completely absurd damage resistance and health -- far more than anything else. The Mysterious Stranger does not "power through" there. He doesn't even do that much damage.

Those 20 marks, or should I say 1 and 19 more on Gunther's Big Iron is probably a reference to Marty Williams song Big Iron. The number of marks Texas Red had on his gun.

Aw yes a revolver, the most reliable shooten iron you can have.

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the magnum research bfr was actually only chambered in rifle cartridges not handgun cartridges

Fun fact: The .357, .41 and .44 Magnums were all made by adding one 10th of an inch to the cartridge of their respective Specials (Turns out that the .38 Special’s true calibre is .357) and this is why they can all fire their respective Specials. However the round sitting 1/10th of an inch further back in the cylinder means that the bullet begins travelling inside the cylinder and this would cause excess wear on the “forcing cones” or the start of the barrel. I’m told that more modern guns are made of harder metals so they might bear this excess wear better than the older guns although some disagree. For any movie fanatics who know of “Dirty Harry” movies, the original movie credited with bringing the .44 Magnum to such a level of worldwide fame that the Model 29 was sold out around the world and impossible to buy for months, the titular Harry Callahan says in the second movie, “Magnum Force” that he uses a “light special” round so by his own testimony he didn’t use Magnums but only fired .44 specials through his big revolver.

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Well as RATM once said, "revolva!' Bro I just got to the end and I can't believe that was 40 min. I was making a coffee and watering my plants while listening and it just flew by like a .44 slug

Maybe they didn't include the suppressor for the police revolver as, outside of a small handful of exceptions, revolvers can't effectively use one due to the gap in between the cylinder and the barrel

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Another thing about the Hunting Revolver is that it fires in double-action mode unlike the real BFR. It also has a swing out cylinder for some reason, maybe to give it some flair to help distinguish it from the .357 Magnum.

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Suggestion for the .44 mag speedloader range buff- not having to single load lets you mentain sight on target while reloading easier therfore being able to aim better at distance

Appears one revolver is missing here, the 5.56 gun and that gun from new Vegas

*Insert revolver ocelot quote here*

I had no idea the .44 magnum was in Fallout 3, just in scope form. I was wondering why the .32 one was so weak. Apparently there's the .44 one, which is way better. Very unfortunate, because revolvers are cool.

20:49 The Early Retirement. This revolver is nice and all but I wander why Bethesda didn't add the .223 pistol or 5.56mm pistol instead.

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38:58 the 45 round is based off 45 ACP which is not used in revolvers but is used in the M1 Thompson and Colt m1911

33:21 Fun fact- I got a legendary model from a ghoul in Kiddie Kingdom before I even set foot in Dry gulch

I missing the .223 pistol which is a revolver if you look on the in game model. But it use SMG animations.

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Fallout has always seemed like a setting that would be revolver centric. In real life, in the post war, semiautos were far from new, the military had been issued the same semiauto for 40+ years, but almost all police and many civilians preferred revolvers, they were still kind of the default handgun, you say 'pistol' and the average person of the time would probably picture a revolver in their minds eye.

My favourite revolver I've gotten in Fallout 4 was a Western Revolver with the Explosive Legendary effect that dropped from one of the Bloodworms in Dry Rock Gulch in Nuka World. One of the few times I've gotten a Legendary item that perfectly fits the build I was using, as I had both the Gunslinger and Demolition Expert perks! Good times.

I know it would be ridiculous but I'd love for the next game to have a revolver that fires shotgun shells or .50 rounds. Even 5mm would be cool.

20:00 speedrunners like tomatoanus use a big guns skill check to convince Kellogg to drop his weapon and cybernetics.

As for an in-world reason why the .357 is .357: For all we know, they're a post-war creation and the loading gate is for economical production. .357 is a rare pistol cartridge that's both good as a black powder cartridge (.38 began as one, and .357 only differs outside of load data for safety) *and* properly utilizes smokeless powder (actually getting a solid speed boost). That it's great as a carbine cartridge too would make it an obvious pick for anyone setting up a gunmaking industry from scratch and would be selling to people who might not have consistent access to smokeless powder.

What about the Blackhawk .44 that you get from Agathas song quest?

Why does your fallout 76 character look… like that

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In fo76 the blunderbuss can be found at prickets fort in a display case, although static world items and weapons are 1st come 1st serve per server (easy work around is a fo1st private server) and the Ranger Sequoia in foNV becomes absurdly common if you gain too much ncr infamy, like literally every other fast travel near an ncr patrol or base spawns a death squad specifically for little old you lol after lvl 16 at least 1 squad member usually always has 1 plus a handful of 45/70 gov. rounds 👍 I appreciate your content, BEHOLD THE POWER OF ATOM