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Borderlands 2 Game of the Year eGuide Marcus' Munitions Monthly

Jakobs

The Jakobs corporation has held to certain values through the years. Family. Honor. Always aiming for the head. When you need to kill your enemies with a single shot, you buy Jakobs: the corporation’s founder, Montgomery Jakobs, always believed in damage above all else. Accuracy? Pah. Recoil reduction? Don’t make me laugh. Elemental effects? Just a bunch of silly fireworks and nonsense. No, the Jakobs corporation believes that there’s nothing better in the world than a big-ass bullet that can tear a man’s head clean off. To this end, Jakobs weapons generally have higher damage than any other manufacturer. Sure, you may have to pull the trigger with every shot, and sure, the recoil may be hellish, but so what? Once you’ve blown a robot in half with a breech-loaded Jakobs shotgun, you’ll know exactly what Montgomery Jakobs was talking about.

Assault Rifles

Jakobs assault rifles work like carbines, great for mid to long-range headshot fishing. Some Jakobs ARs arrive equipped to fire more than one shot per trigger pull, making them approach the functionality of a sniping shotgun…

Ornery Scarab
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$1,611

119

90.4

15.3

3.1

12

Deadshot Stomper
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$17,605

490

95.1

12.3

3.1

15

Location: Mission: “Hungry Like the Skag

Horse Cannon
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$26,628

503

93.0

9.4

4.1

16

Boss Hammer Buster
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$221,817

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Location: CLASSIFIED!

Pistols

Jakobs, as a company, eschews modern tech and embraces technology as it was in the expanding frontier. It still incorporates wood into its gun components—Jakobs is the only manufacturer to do so on relatively desolate Pandora—and no weapon possesses automatic fire. Instead, any Jakobs weapon that isn’t a bolt-action sniper rifle can be fired as quickly as you can squeeze the trigger through semi-auto double action. Their standard pistols are a bit like Dahl’s without burst fire… competent, but nothing that will make you change your religion. Their revolver line, on the other hand, provides maybe the best platform for their high-impact design ethos.

Straight Shootin’ Judge
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$7,150

325

96.4

15.3

1.7

9

Location: Oney, Optional Mission: “Assassinate the Assassins

Revolver
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$892

111

94.0

16.7

2.1

6

Ornery Law
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$6,312

419

96.8

15.8

1.6

9

Location: Mission: “Won’t Get Fooled Again”

Two-Fer Iron
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$11,448

668x2

92.2

9.5

1.7

15

Dastardly Widow Maker
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$6,230

524

95.2

14.1

2.1

9

Loaded Revolver
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$2,056

174

93.7

16.7

2.4

10

Dastardly Maggie
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$76,957

270x6

81.2

11.5

1.7

10

Location: Mick Zaford (side with Hodunks)

Shotguns

Jakobs shotguns are breech-loaded, so they can be discharged as fast as you can pull the trigger, and they have light ammo loads. You’ll go through the barrels very quickly and reload often, but the buckshot flies faster and hits harder than with other shotguns. You won’t ever find a Jakobs shotgun with elemental powers, so if you want to maximize your return, Slag the enemy with a skill or another weapon first.

Filled Longrider
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$1,219

63x7

69.2

16.7

3.1

2

Well Kept Coach Gun
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$6,062

206x13

46.4

13.8

2.2

3

Rustler’s Scattergun
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$3,337

112x9

35.9

20.2

3.1

2

Well Kept Tidal Wave
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$8,992

271x3

46.4

13.4

2.2

3

Location: Mission: “Uncle Teddy

Doc’s Striker
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$128,499

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Location: CLASSIFIED!

Ornery Triquetra
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$11,145

250x19

60.5

12.0

2.3

6

Location: Bagman (mission: “Clan Wars: End of the Rainbow”)

Snipers

Most Jakobs weapons fire as fast as you can operate the device—rapidly squeezing the double-action trigger of a Jakobs AR carbine, or slap-firing by fanning the hammer of a Jakobs revolver. Many of their sniper rifles break from this tradition by featuring bolt action chambering, which forces a small break between shots. The focus of Jakobs sniper rifles is sheer bullet speed and power. And, not all Jakobs sniper rifles are strictly bolt action… you will find semi-automatic variants, as well, which are just about the best non-elemental sniping tools a Vault Hunter could hope for.

Kull Callipeen
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$3,240

436

93.6

0.6

4.0

7

Tl’kope Chinook
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$5,829

455

96.2

3.3

5.0

6

Chikamin Buffalo
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$9,568

897

96.6

0.5

4.0

8

Location: Mission: “Demon Hunter

Tumtum Muckamuck
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$19,375

1414

97.5

0.5

4.0

8

Skookum Skullmasher
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$135,952

499x5

85.5

2.6

4.0

9

Location: Son of Mothrakk, Wildlife Exploitation Preserve

Skookum Diaub
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$7,786

724

94.4

4.7

4.3

9

Tumtum Trespasser
DamageAccuracyFire RateReloadMag SizeElement

$12,499

480

97.0

0.6

5.0

6

Location: Mission: “Animal Rights