Any use for .38 rounds?

[AnDrawD]

Can't really find a gun worth having that uses .38, they all suck once you get passed level 15-20. Unless someone knows something, I'm just gonna sell all 3000 rounds of it that I got collected up.

[Bansheebutt]

Mod Combat Rifles to use them and give them to your Settlement Guards.

[Zxzxx]

Just sell them so you can buy more useful ammo

[Schweaty Bawlz]

I modded a pipe rifle to powerful automatic with a supressor and drum mag. Works great for clearing houses of things.

[Phoenix VII]

If you get the gun nut perk and upgrade the pipe rifle, it'll actually do well enough against raiders and ghouls (at least until wasters and reavers start show up).

[sirBlue]

Originally posted by AnDrawD:

Can't really find a gun worth having that uses .38, they all suck once you get passed level 15-20. Unless someone knows something, I'm just gonna sell all 3000 rounds of it that I got collected up.

Ammo sells actually better then guns as it weighs nothing. Do not bother taking every pipe gun with you that you find it is not worth it.

[Qnomei]

If you really want to use .38 instead of sell/waste it, get this mod:

http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/8421/?

It's a .38 M9 with the same stats as the 10mm pistol. Plus it looks really awesome.

[Shahadem]

Back when you could generate infinite caps via the ammo selling bug I used to use .38 ammo as the bugged ammo.

[darinbob]

There are so many you can afford to use them in automatics. Other ammo is rare enough that I want to horde it instead (that's probably just me). So if I have only 300 rounds of .308 then I wont' ever use that to kill a radroach. With rarer ammo I am using VATS to be absolutely sure I don't miss (I'm not an FPS player who can aim worth anything); with my pipe rifle I don't care so much and sometimes just shoot wildly while backing up even if I'm missing.

[loverevolutionary]

One play through, I got an early pipe rifle with the bleeding effect. That was nice. +25 unavoidable damage, and it stacks with each hit, unlike, say, incindiary or poison.

Play on survival and you will find you absolutely need those 3,000 .38 rounds, as you will have used up everything else. Actually, I'm almost out of .38s now, too... Maybe I'll just sit and farm mutfruit for a couple months until I can afford more ammo, lol.

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by Mars:

Just sell them so you can buy more useful ammo

Scrounger perk ftw :)

[White Knight]

I just restarted for a second playthrough and upgrades become available for pipe-guns much sooner than I can unlock them myself. I have a pipe sniper rifle that uses .38 - the damage is crap but I get a few extra shots before the enemy figures out where I'm at.

Gun Nut 3 seems to be a sort of threshold perk that isn't available until 25th level, iirc. Whatever the case may be, once I have the capability to mod my own stuff I will no longer have any need for pipe guns at all. Until then, I keep my ugly, suppressed pipe rifle handy.

[ʙ⌁¹¹⁰¹]

Originally posted by Qnomei:

If you really want to use .38 instead of sell/waste it, get this mod:

http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/8421/?

It's a .38 M9 with the same stats as the 10mm pistol. Plus it looks really awesome.

+1

[ʙ⌁¹¹⁰¹]

In addition i use this mod: http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/130/?

Might be hard to believe that weapon sound increase fun at first, but they do! If you start using this mod, theres no way back.

[Sentient_Toaster]

Given the presence of .38, it's odd that there is no .38 revolver (other than downgrading a pipe revolver from 10mm), nor a way to convert the regular non-pipe .44 revolver to .38.

Other than those... heh, maybe somebody should add a crafting recipe for a bomb that uses .38 ammunition as shrapnel.

[✠Deser✞🅵☣⚔⚔♏✠]

Originally posted by Qnomei:

If you really want to use .38 instead of sell/waste it, get this mod:

http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/8421/?

It's a .38 M9 with the same stats as the 10mm pistol. Plus it looks really awesome.

I have never killed anyone in Fallout; I use a bat and knock them unconcious; they stay unconcious for like 7 hours to and when i come back later there gone.

So yea guns kill people === bad, bats ofc are much better; that's why everyone likes batman over superman because superman kills people.