I want a hunting rifle with a scope and silencer mainly but I just basically want a place with plenty of good weapon mods to choose from.

If you know specific locations of any mods other then Silver Rush, 188, and the General Store in Goodsprings please let me know. I love mods, I think they are one of the best new features in the game. :fallout:

The Gun Runners vendor has some mods. It is a robot outside the east Freeside entrance, to the southwest of there. I only saw a few mods though. It'd be nice to find a place that had a large selection of guns, ammunition, and mods. I'm tired of running all over the place.

You can't get a silencer for the hunting rifle. The mods you can have for it are:

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An extended magazine
A custom action (Faster reloading)
A scope (probably around x5, x6 view, not sure)

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If you're looking for the mods you would want you'll probably have to go with the Varmint Rifle. I LOVE the mods that this gun has.

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An extended magazine
A silencer
A night vision scope

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Try the general store Mick and Ralphs just before you enter Freeside.

The merchant in the Crimson Caravans base had some good mods for me. They had the night vision scope for the varmint rifle, and others that I don't remember. (Southeast of The Strip, I think. Not too sure)

Thanks, I just got all of the mods for the Varmint rifle from Mike and Ralph's it's awesome. Too bad the Hunting rifle doesn't have the same mods. It's more powerful. But I can handle the Varmint rifle.

BTW what's the best rifle to use when sniping patrols of CL soldiers and such? I don't know much about weapons. I'm more of the talking person. But I'm getting into weapon mods and all that jazz.

You can also look in Novac at the Dinky the Dinosaur building. The gift shop has a few mods.

For some reason for me none of the shops ever have more than two mods, and I've only ever found one mod for a weapon I use. I've been looking for a scope for my hunting riffle since almost immediately after I got it but haven't been able to find one. I've found a scope for the laser riffle but it just lacks the punch necessary for sniping.

I can't figure out how to put the night vision scope on the Varmint Rifle. Anyone have any pointers?

Do you mean look down the scope or put it on?
If your on PS3 then all you have to do to mod a gun is to go to that gun in your inventory, then click L2. Dunno about PC or 360 though it should be similar.

For looking down I think it has to be night but I'm not sure.

For sniping the best weapon has to be the Anti-Materiel Rifle. It's a .50cal sniper rifle used to penetrate army vehicles. Probably the most powerful sniper rifle in the game. Your targets get blown backwards when you shoot them. Also, try out shooting it in 3rd person, the kick is amazing.

(You need 8 strength to fire it effectively.)

A silenced sniper rifle, and a carefully aimed head shot. :wink_smile:

For PC hit X and select it, although you can only have a max of three mods on any one gun

This is my one complaint with the game, weapon mods HAVE to be bought! Even though the guide says you can find them in containers( B.S ). Its not that I don't have the caps, but it would make exploring more rewarding.