The Hunting Rifle is one of the first seen and most common weapons in the entire game. There are several ways the player can spawn the weapon - either by spawning it in the loadout of randomly-spawned NPCs or making it available from traders. For some reason, it has a ridiculous damage output of 150 per shot, which is even higher than the damage dealt by a Gauss gun shot, easily making it the most powerful non-explosive weapon. However, resource files - including weapon configs, model and animations - still exist within the game files, meaning one can spawn one with the use of modifications. The Hunting shotgun was scheduled to appear in Shadow of Chernobyl, but was cut from the final version.