Can I turn a pistol into an effective sniper rifle?

[Rocketeer]

Please entail these precious details to me.

[Evan]

I am not sure as I have never done it but I had thought about this:

Any badges related to that pistols will help. I know there is gunslinger but I do not remember if there is anything else. Check. Do get gun slinger.

Pick a pistol that you like or has good stats. I canot think of anything off the top of my head. There is that one from the railroad, and then kellogs pistol that I can think of.

Get a scope since you will be doing long range. Upgrade the receiver (for a sniper you may want higher damage and less rof - but it is up to taste), get the longest barrel you can. Get the best stock you can. I don't remember what other mods can help off the top of my head, but check.

Doing a luck/vats/critical hit build can help. Just do vats and then do some critical hit banking to 1hk everything I guess.

[no1schmo]

With a laser pistol, you can still put the sniper barrel and a scope, so that should work okay.

[Rocketeer]

how do i do critical hit "banking"

[Yosterix]

With the critical banking perk you can get up to 3 extra crits available for use. Provided you don't use your crits every time the meter fills up

[DouglasGrave]

It shouldn't really count since I use a workbench glitch to deliberately attach invalid parts, but "replace all its parts with rifle parts" could count.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2069305415

It suffers a bit, though, since the pistols with a full set of mod part slots tend to be the ones you can freely swap between pistol/rifle status anyway (like the pipe gun or laser gun), rather than the dedicated pistols. Pistols tend to get the short end of the stick gun barrel in this game

[red255]

I mean yeah, you mean modify a pipe pistol into a pipe rifle? honestly I usually just bank criticals to hit enemy heads at range. so like I have a melee weapon ideally a lucky machete with kremh's tooth. and I bank critical hits with it. and then I switch to my ranged weapon which again is ideally a lucky gauss rifle and vats an enemy head and use the critical on it.

pop.

gun wise to snipe all you really need is high damage per shot. i would recommend a .303 pipe rifle or hunting rifle though.

[Iron Knights]

Actually a laser pistol setup as sniper would reach out to almost 400m. Not sure it works past the short combat engagement range programmed in the game though.

[BlazeD]

The best pistol sniper is a 44 with a scope. The laser sniper is weirdly inaccurate. Pipe revolver worked ok...better than the laser and better than the pipe pistol snipers.

I need to see if a plasma sniper pistol is more accurate than the disappointing laser...

[Solomon Hawk]

There is a .308 caliber pipe pistol which can be effectively upgraded to a sniper rifle. It's not uncommon or rare.

[kharille]

I use vats a lot. Nice to have a sniper barrel on a plasma pistol but I can't use vats if they're too far out.

[The Inept European]

Because of the odd way the Gunslinger perk works, the best sniper "rifle" is often a pistol, kept in pistol format, not converted to a rifle. All of the standard pistols will accept any of the scopes, apart from the 10mm pistol (which you can't turn into a rifle anyway).

[wtiger27]

The best pistol sniper weapon would be a Two Shot Western Revolver. The Western Revolver does more damage versus the .44 revolver by default. Even tho it uses the same .44 round.

[The Inept European]

That's probably correct yes in terms of pure DMG anyway.

You can't put a suppressor on it though, which might be a factor. Can you put a scope on the Western Revolver like you can on the .44?

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by The Ex-ept European:

That's probably correct yes in terms of pure DMG anyway.

You can't put a suppressor on it though, which might be a factor. Can you put a scope on the Western Revolver like you can on the .44?

Yes on the scope. And true about the no suppressor.

In one run, I have a explosive Western Revolver and that thing is a beast in pure one shot damage. Not seen very many legendary Western Revolvers drop and the explosive one is the best one I have had drop.

But I watched a video of a player using a two shot Western Revolver with a scope on it for sniping and he was kicking ass with it.

[Sabaithal]

I mean, you can put a scope one a revolver. And I suppose you could use that to snipe ppl.