GrafSchmidt

Possible, but unlikely. The .50 Beowulf isn't a super common round. It's more likely that Beth just didn't want to make a separate model for the .50 cal rifle. I think I would have preferred that they were separate weapons, with the hunting rifle having a higher firing rate and the .50 having much higher damage. Ah well, can't have everything. You're right on the .44, though. I don't think I've ever seen a .44 that looks like the one in game that was a single action. I'm not saying it's impossible for one to exist, I'm just not sure why you would take a modern weapon and remove the double action from it, since you can fire a DA like a SA if you want too anyway. Actually, now that I take a closer look, this doesn't make sense either. I don't use the pipe-bolt, I can only speak for the bolt-action. If you mod the bolt action to chamber the whatever .50 you can see the 308 has a fire rate of 6, and the .50 a fire rate of 7. In the bolt-action (and the pipe-bolt) the fire rate is how fast the character actions the bolt. It's just that they put the animation to the left slowing the bolt-actioning movement even more. And the revolvers suffer from the same problem: even if you mod the fire rate making the char discharging the gun like the "Deliverer", you'll see him/her moving his/her thumb like Flash.

There is an awful lot of ammo and gun types out there. Point is: they changed a bit there a bit here, to look like che Commonwealth it's different from the rest of the U.S. But like you said, those involved in programming weapons looks like they haven't fired a single round. A little more common sense would have been in order, to program weapons: generally guns should be reliable, easy to carry, practical to fire ... not like in the game "we do this because it's nice and we like it and it's sci-fi and shut up".

Like I said, no expert, but I read someone somewhere say they suspected that by .50 cal it actually means something called a .50 Beowulf? But yeah, not an expert... Also.. Does it bother anyone else that the .44 Revolver is single-action? I understand that the Pipe Revolver probably would be, it's home-made... But the other one should be double-action, no? As I said, single action revolvers like the Colt Navy in 2077 is an outdated design. If you arm the hammer with that .44 (looks like 38 special to me though) it's because you like cowboy style, but nothing more. In my opinion Bethesda is largerly trolling us. In F3 they put a bolt-action hunting rifle that actually expelled exhausted shot to the right. I can't see why in the Commonwealth should be on the left (one reason could be there are more left handed people in the army, but still doesn't make sense to see only left models and absolutely no right).

Finally... it seems that all the nerds out there playing this game just don't get what firearms are and how they are used. When someone point out "hey what the hell ... left handed bolt action used by right handed??? It's a war between left handed ppl and right handed!" it seems to me they never actually fired a bold action or a rifle in general. Go to youtube a look for a guy which is left handed and tries to use a standard bolt action: HE CAN'T. Why? It's not about the "war" between hands, it's about firing position. A well trained soldier of the WWI is a soldier who actually can quick fire a bolt action without losing much of accuracy. In order to do that, you don't have take out from your elbow (like in the game) the gun to action the bolt. Specifically the bolt must be light to maneuver and quick to arm (for example, you can't quick fire the Carcano 1891 because the bolt is heavy to action... unlike the Swiss equivalent or the Mauser or the Lee Enfield), the secondary hand must hold the rifle in order to have the sights aligned and the primary hand must be free to move from the trigger to the bolt in a matter of a second. In the game you see a war veteran (I use the male char) having hard time using the bolt action ... he's very quick to put it into position in his elbow but every single shot to expell the fired ammunition he has to take it out and use the left hand. Clearly in this case a right handed can use a rifle like this only if prone and the gun is on a support: this happens usually if you're a sniper (and in the game there is no actually prone or cover or stand support or whatsoever). The revolvers are puzzling me as well. The 44 revolver is something of a mistery to me: why in the world you have to arm the trigger pulling back the hammer like an old Colt Navy revolver???