Weapon overview
Check the purchase stage and combat role first, then read the handling notes and connected encounters below.
How to get it
Late-game shop stock used for the whale encounter chain.
- Available at: Volcano / late route
- Observed price: $20,000
Combat parameters
Automatic late-game firearm with a 40-damage starting value in the extracted weapon component.
- Base damage: 40 per shot
- Magazine: 30 rounds
- Extended magazine: 40 rounds
- Extended magazine cost: $5,400
- Restock ammunition before using a one-use encounter trigger.
Damage upgrade ladder
The weapon component stores thirteen damage states. The first cost is zero because it represents the base state; each following amount is the cost attached to that upgraded state.
- Damage: 40 → 45 → 50 → 55 → 60 → 65 → 70 → 75 → 80 → 85 → 90 → 95 → 100
- State costs: $0 → $300 → $480 → $700 → $920 → $1,360 → $1,890 → $2,480 → $3,100 → $3,875 → $4,520 → $5,125 → $5,800
Attachment effects
Attachment compatibility and stock change by weapon and island. These are the effects shown by the in-game attachment descriptions.
- Compensator — moderately reduces recoil.
- Suppressor — significantly reduces recoil.
- Extended Mag — increases the number of rounds in the magazine.
- Laser Sight — shows where the weapon is pointing and makes hipfire easier.
- Red Dot Sight — makes targets easier to hit while aiming.
- Sniper Scope — makes distant targets easier to hit while aiming.
- Iron Sight — removes the currently attached sight.
Best use
Sustained fire helps when a large target stays exposed, but only if you can control the weapon and afford the ammunition. Short bursts preserve accuracy.
- Use short bursts at range.
- Restock before boss lures.
- Favor mobility over standing still to finish a magazine.
Connected routes and records
Open the exact creature, item, island, quest or achievement used by this entry.
Island and rod routes
Where this entry is used and which rod is paired with it.
Bosses and quests
Where this item or equipment appears in the route.

Bowhead Whale Guide
Use the Fish Bucket or Whale Bait, defeat the whale and keep it for the mutated final encounter.

Mutated Bowhead Whale Final Boss
Use the defeated Bowhead Whale to begin the final phase and finish the game.

Scientist's Whale Bait & Final Route
Bring the Scientist the requested smaller catches, receive Fish Bucket / Whale Bait, keep the Bowhead body and carry it into the Volcano trigger for the final fight.

Deadliest Catch Military Route
Complete the military preparation on Volcano Island before the final Boss-type Bowhead encounter and keep its achievement trigger separate from the Scientist's bait chain.
Connected equipment
Bait, rods and weapons used in the same route.

