my time at portia

Don't even need to look at the stats, used that damn cowboy repeater and also the service rifle for specific characters for years now, and the cowboy repeater is almost always the better choice, especially if you haven't patched out the instant reload glitch out of your game yet and have no qualms in using it. You can also just re-equip the gun to cheese the long reload unless you intentionally tweaked that out of your game. Getting ammo for it is better and i vaguely remember having better ammo variants, hits harder, fires about as fast since the service rifle is hella slow even when your character is a guns 100 agility 10 jerry miculek type guy, peep sight is lame but you can either git gud or mod it away instantly, or even better, just fire it third person and worry about absolutely nothing. When the modding hits deep then who knows, but usually the service rifle gets better since some mods redistribute loot so 556 is more common, and you can also make regular 556 out of surplus rounds with some mods, which are plentiful, and animation mods makes your character actually fire it faster than maybe even the assault carbine fires if you're good with your clicky finger. Only time when the service rifle felt either equal or better was when i made a low guns high luck kind of character that critted a whole lot but sucked at actually hitting targets, so here, if you suck or your character suck at hitting stuff, maybe reach for that rifle, cause with the slow reload on that cowb repeater, ya gotta make the hits count... in a game with really archaic gunplay at that.

You have no idea if that is true or not.  

Nonsense. No one put actual full names there. How's "Jimmy" a security leak? Rather, it was what people wanted to be called instead of a blahblah1234456 handle thing. Not everyone managed to come up with a handle name that was both human readable and unused.

no sarcasm here at all - ever since the new forums went live - i think you have done a bang up job of community support, assistance, and been generally positive and helpful, to almost every person who has come in and been left confused, saddened and disheartened by the new forum implementation.

On a serious note, fallout 4 should've been made with modular outfits, as it was in oblivion. It just doesnt work for fo4 to only have basically suits you wear as outfits instead of you know, shoes, boots, shirt, and all of that.  It's so satisfying to see a modular bodyslide outfit 😅