How to find sniper rifles specifically?

[llIIIIIlllIIIIII]

I am level 39 but have only found 2 sniper rifle drops, 1 of which being a legendary drop. Is there a reliable way to buy or find sniper rifles of any rarity? (The ones that turn dark green once fully upgraded).

[.:Jj:.]

There are no sniper rifles in this game.
I guess you have the 'sniper' configuration of a Hunting Rifle in mind.
And how to find it? Grabbing whatever trash hunting rifle you have in your inventory and upgrading it to a desired configuration.

Name of the weapons is adjusted in a dynamic way. Using specific configuration turns it into 'sniper' rifle, the same way as swapping parts turns a plasma pistol into a plasma thrower.

I don't have lvl tables in front of me, but specific configurations have their rarity and SSlvl attached to their generation 'drop' rates, so if something is rare then well, it's rare and/or you're under-leveled for that tier of customization.

[DouglasGrave]

Assuming that you're after a legendary version to swap your existing parts onto, there isn't much to do for ordinary farming except make sure that you're looking in an area where the desired weapon can turn up at all as a random legendary result (it's capped by both your level and the level limit for the area).

If you're getting more elaborate, there is also loot-locking, which mostly relies on the autosaves from entering or leaving interior areas to get a save right in the middle of a legendary item being generated nearby; after the base item is chosen but before the game decides which effect it should have. It requires you to find an area where a legendary enemy spawns nearby, and a bunch of reloading one you get a save where it's the right base item. It's a cheesy way to exploit the game mechanics and saving, if that bothers you.

[Relic62]

There plenty of them, but you have to as above turn some of them into sniper rifles using the weapons workbench by modifying them, they start showing up around level 10 onwards. best one to buy is the Overseers Guardian legendary, you buy it in vault 81 and them modify it at the weapons workbench.

[dbond1]

Yep, get OG (you can buy it), mod the receiver for .308 and attach a scope. It will work great. It's been a long time, but I think you need Gun Nut 4 to make this receiver change?

[SkunkPlaysGames]

From Drumlin Diner go west to that little concrete bunker, just west of that is the highway overpass that's manned by Gunners. Two guards, one on either on-ramp, carry Hardened Sniper Rifles 100% of the time.