Whitting's Elephant Gun is a unique sniper rifle manufactured by Jakobs.
Examples are on the talk page.
Special Weapon Effects
Why don't you go shoot yourself an elephant? - High damage and accuracy. Scopeless.
Usage & Description
The Elephant Gun, despite its lack of scope, always spawns with 98.3 accuracy. Combined with its high damage values, it's an excellent gun in mid- to long- range encounters. Since players will always be rewarded with a version of this gun after completing the Big Game Hunter mission, it is an excellent alternative for players who find they lack firepower but are unwilling to invest the time into farming weapons.
Keep in mind that in Borderlands, scoping a weapon literally increases that weapon's accuracy. Even with a perfect eye, a steady hand, and 98.3 accuracy, Whitting's Elephant Gun is not accurate enough to reliably score critical hits at medium range, nor reliably hit anything at all at extreme ranges.
Drop Guide
- Mission reward from Big Game Hunter.
- Very Rare drop from Skagzilla after the mission has been turned in.
Notes & Trivia
- Like the Rider, Whitting's Elephant Gun never has a scope.
- The Elephant Gun may have originally been created for Shep Sanders, as evidenced by the weapon's distinguising part, ShepsElephantGun_sight_none.
- The red text is a reference to the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Rabbit Fire." [1]
Mechanics
Whitting's Elephant Gun has the unique part ShepsElephantGun_sight_none as its scope (or lack thereof, rather), providing greatly increased Damage, increased Fire Rate and increased Knockback (on the order of that provided by Material_Jakobs_3). Its unique material ShepsElephantGun_Material is otherwise equivalent to Material_Jakobs_2. Note that this weapon always spawns with barrel3, mag4 and stock2, all of which are average quality parts. However, the body may vary, and it may have a non-elemental accessory such as Heavy or Rolling. Please see stat modifiers for an explanation on how to interpret all of these modifiers.
| ShepsElephantGun_sight_none |
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| Damage: +100% Fire Rate: +35% Knockback: +400% |
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