I just found out that using the crak-mods you can crank the rifle more than once to store a tonn of shots in the capacitor and then fire all of the energy at once!

The thing is seriously deadlt.

I found the rate of fire painfully slow. But yeah for one 'pop' it works.

Well for those sneak attacks on big bad things moments...it just works.

I've been using the Scoped Institute rifle for sniping. Thing's wicked. If you haven't seen it yet keep an eye out for it.

I'm using the musket laser rifle as a sniper rifle for now. It's just too slow to fire.

The sniper-fitted-hunting rifle is just not doing it for me.

It really reminds me that episode of Futurama, look up "youtube futurama wind up guns".

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When I first got it, I thought it was like the Recharger Rifle and you had to "wind it up" to power the charges but it was essentially unlimited ammo. That is ~not~ the case. You DO have limited ammo and the cranking just loads more "oomph" into the shot. VERY cumbersome in frantic fighting.