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Borderlands 2 Game of the Year eGuide Marcus' Munitions Monthly

Dahl

Stanton Dahl always said there were three types of people in this universe: people who need to be killed, the people doing the killing, and the people who pay them. He founded the Dahl Corporation for the second group. Paramilitary organizations all across the six galaxies trust Dahl—and if you value stability, so should you. When you’re on the job, recoil is the last thing you want coming between you and a clean kill. For that reason, Dahl assault rifles, pistols, sniper rifles, and SMGs have better recoil reduction than any other manufacturers’ weapons. Not to mention the fact that Dahl weapons are the only guns on Pandora with multiple firing modes—ironsight any Dahl weapon, and it’ll switch to burst-fire mode. If killing is your business, you buy Dahl. Period.

ASSAULT RIFLES

Dahl assault rifles put a little more oomph behind their promise of burst fire while zoomed; get a Dahl AR outfitted with a Vladof spinning barrel, and you’ll be pumping out bursts of nine shots or more at a peal! Dahl ARs also tend to be automatic when hip fired, while their other weapon classes usually aren’t. Dahl even makes grenade-launching weapons in the assault rifle class that incorporate Torgue technology. Remember, it’s still Dahl, so this gives you a grenade launcher that burst fires while zoomed! If you master bouncing grenades at enemies, this can be potent, indeed.

Patrol Scorpio
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$11,032

276

91.6

6.4

2.8

34

Location: Mission: “Bearer of Bad News

Scout Carbine
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$8,283

121

92.4

5.9

2.8

29

Deep Defender
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$4,465

148

91.8

6.4

3.6

22

Feral Veruc
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$95,122

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Location: CLASSIFIED!

PISTOLS

Dahl pistols start out underwhelming, like the first repeaters you’ll find, but stick around, and eventually you’ll find examples that function almost like sniping pistols, ready to place 3+ burst rounds into the melons of evildoers from blocks away. These can be especially potent when they’re armed with Maliwan tech that turns them into elemental sniping pistols… put two or three on-target bursts into a distant target, and they’re almost guaranteed to have the desired elemental effect eating away at them by then.

Loaded Repeater
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$844

73

90.9

12.5

2.1

21

Tactical Anaconda
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$2,087

137

93.5

12.5

1.5

11

Skirmish Magnum
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$1,983

317

88.3

11.5

2.5

12

React Hornet
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$85,672

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Location: CLASSIFIED!

Neutralizing Dahlminator
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$9,997

528

92.1

6.9

1.6

30

Location: Mission: “The Lost Treasure

Loaded Teapot
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$6,463

150

94.7

9.6

1.6

23

Location: Mission: “You are Cordially Invited: Tea Party”

SMGs

Dahl SMGs give you the option of an automatic hip fire weapon to spray somewhat inaccurately at close to mid range, with the ability to zoom in and burst fire for mid to long-range shots. Like any Dahl weapon, burst fire mode is ideal for applying elemental effects (if your equipped Dahl SMG comes with any), as well as for precision targeting.

Deft Falcon
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$7,890

115

94.0

7.1

3.0

31

Location: CLASSIFIED!

Flying Fox
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$7,109

130

91.3

8.0

2.3

41

Location: CLASSIFIED!

React SMG
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$1,326

74

87.0

7.1

2.5

24

Location: CLASSIFIED!

Skirmish Emperor
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$79,635

370

89.1

5.5

1.9

49

Location: The assassins, Southpaw Steam & Power

SNIPER RIFLES

Dahl’s sniper rifles trade a little bit of per-shot damage and overall discharges per magazine for the ability to burst fire snipe while zoomed. You won’t have the luxury of picking and choosing one-shot-wonders against the heads of distant bandits—some Dahl sniper rifles burst six shots at a time or more, so any illusion of sneakiness is right out the window—but against enemies with static, non-moving weak spots, this can be ideal. Can you draw a bead on the glowing red front sensor of a Constructor Bot? Do you have ample cover above your head to block its missile salvos, and do you have a Dahl corrosive sniper rifle in hand, ready to burst fire waves of Critical Hits right into that jerk’s eye over and over? If yes to all, then a winner is you.

Smooth Sniper
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$1,577

152

93.9

6.7

3.1

9

Night Scout
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$7,255

568

93.9

9.5

4.0

9

Pacifying Pitchfork
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$95,947

690

97.2

6.7

3.1

18

Location: Target of mission: “You. Will. Die. (Seriously.)”

Pacifying Sniper
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$11,872

730

95.6

6.7

3.1

11

Operational Sloth
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$12,367

626

96.8

6.7

3.5

1

Location: Mission: “Rakkaholics Anonymous