I just grabbed me a gauss rifle and whenever I see it has 5 ammo in a magazine, but it reloads after every shot and the current mag's count never changes.

Is this normal?

Dont know, not seen it yet although in Fallout 3 it only had 1 shot so u had to reload each time u fired it

Some weapons use more then one ammo per shot.. most likely its using 5 per shot.

It uses 5 cells per shot. So the mag has only 5, and every shot drains the mag completely. :flamethrower:

Ok. I thought that might be the case, since I noticed that with other energy weapons, but in FO3 it just uses 1 round per mag which is why i was confused.

For balancing its power, its a very very powerful weapon. Especially the unique version.