At later levels the Cowboy perk makes a fully modified cowboy repeater a useful weapon, with the +25% damage bonus from the cowboy perk, combined with the common. Its low skill requirement of 25 makes it an effective choice of weapon for a player character with only a modest investment in the Guns skill. The cowboy repeater also appears to be the 'standard rifle' for Recruit legionaries. Because of this, it gives the gun the added advantage of being quickly available to fire again if only a single/few rounds are needed. Due to the gun having a tube magazine, it is reloaded by hand one bullet at a time, as such it can be interrupted midway through reloading and fired if needed. It has a peep sight similar to that of the brush gun and the Battle rifle (and its unique variant This Machine).
The cowboy repeater is a lever-action rifle firing small-caliber.
