OK, it's a little on the costly side, but it has great accuracy, a magazine, great damage, and reloads fairly quick and with it I can take on forces of over 100 via guerrilla tactics/circling on horseback/sniping (on another note, the enemies can't seem to aim up that well) if I fill the other 3 slots with ammo and have managed to cause the destruction of 2 of the bandit minor factions (I think I did it by getting rid of their leaders for an extended time) without any help (beyond about 2 dozen distractions during one siege)