Am I the only one that learned it's a good thing to put a few rounds into a 'dead' ghoul on the floor when I enter a room?

I TOTALLY do this now!!

Nope! A few bullets here and there to secure yourself is hardly "wasting" them

Power armour with targetting helmet. Ghouls playing dead? Not with that red glow they're not.

Ah, I'm not the only one

Well. I almost made that upgrade but went with the jet-pack instead! I have to say damn I love it when I thought it was a bad idea when I watched pre-release foorage.

Early game I will use 1 round. Mid game+ (and I keep restarting around then so never reached end game yet) when ammo is zero issue due to endless water farm supplying infinite ammo and caps, I fire off 2 rounds to the head because you never know.

I also deliberately do not use VATs to check for living ghouls or not. Adds more slinking around tension if I just use my own senses.

Meh, with my combat shotgun, as soon as they get up, they go down. And when in doubt; Molotov.

Jetpack is your torso. Targetting is your helmet. Keep them both: leap into the safety of the skies and see your foes illuminated below you

I have a nicely modded shotgun, but am currently short on shells

OMG, I will be doing that ASAP!

Safer to check with VATS...saves waking up the others around the place.

That's why I always shot everyone on the floor, and if I do end up with one it never makes another get up before it's time under my gun

I just use VATS to check if a ghoul playing dead.

I guess I could do that, but I prefer my ammo wasting approach . . . I know not the best option.

For me it's the GoulSlayer, my modded 50%+ Damage to Gouls 10mm. At 37 normal damage now, and it's among the fastest semi autos in the game. They just, well it's not melt, but nearly.

Otherwise I just use the large bayonet, on BoomBoom my modded Combat Shotgun.

As far as "waking them up," one word: suppressors

My shotgun is suppressed, my .45 rifle is suppressed, my .50 sniper rifle is suppressed, my 10mm pistol is suppressed

Agreed

Agreed, my .38 explosive round suppressed automatic pipe-pistol does the trick every time