Red Dead Redemption 2 has 65 Weapons. This guide shows where to find all Weapon Locations in RDR2. You will need to find at least 48 of them to reach 100% completion of the game. Luckily you don’t have to find all the weapons in the game because some of them are highly missable and you will have only one chance to pick them up.
A bunch of them can simply be bought at gunsmiths, others are quest rewards or found in the open world, and some are automatic mission unlocks. You can always buy more ammo (and special ammo) at gunsmiths and pick up gun oil to repair your weapons.
You can keep track of how many firearms you’ve found under the Pause Menu, Progress, Compendium, Weapons.
Overview:
- Red = Missable Weapons
- Green = Weapons which can be bought or will be granted automatically and you don’t have to worry about
- Blue = Weapons which you will have to find somewhere in the world or granted as a quest reward
Revolvers
- Cattleman Revolver – You start with this weapon
- Flaco’s Revolver – Pick it up after defeating Flaco Hernandez, one of the Legendary Gunslingers in The Noblest of Men, and a Woman Stranger Mission.
- Granger’s Revolver – Pick it up after defeating Emmet Granger, one of the Legendary Gunslingers in The Noblest of Men, and a Woman Stranger Mission.
- Double-Action-Revolver – Can be bought everywhere after a certain point in Chapter 2
- Algernon’s Revolver – Reward for Duchesses and other Animals side mission, which can be found north of Saint-Dennis after having finished story mission “A Gilded Cage” in Chapter 4. Quest giver is Algernon Wasp, who you will find in a greenhouse in the backyard of a big, blue house and he asks you to find Exotics for him.
- Schofield Revolver – Can be bought everywhere after a certain point in Chapter 2. It can also be found in a weapon case during the backroom-robbery of the drug store in Valentine.
- Otis Miller’s Revolver – Hidden in a chest of a small cave in the north of Cholla Springs, New Austin region. You can only go there after having reached the Epilogue. It’s part of the Torn Treasure Map Hunt.
- Calloway’s Revolver – You can pick it from your dueling partner at the end of Legendary Gunslingers questline The Noblest of Men, and a Woman Stranger Mission. Be sure to pick it up, since you won’t be able to get it otherwise.
- Micah’s Revolver – After Epilogue 2 return to Mount Hagen and pick it up from the frozen corpse.
- John’s Cattleman Revolver – Granted automatically
- High Roller Double-Action Revolver – ONLY available if you completed a certain treasure hunt in GTA Online that’s sent by vanderlinde@eyefind.com. If you have done this in GTA V Online, you will receive this revolver automatically in RDR2 after Chapter 2 mission “A Strange Kindness“.
- Navy Revolver – Can be bought in Red Dead Online for $275 from any gunsmith – was added via a patch in December 2019 (was not in the game at launch).
Pistols
- Volcanic-Pistol – Can be bought everywhere after a certain point in Chapter 1.
- Semi-automatic Pistol – Can be bought everywhere after a certain point in Chapter 4.
- Mauser Pistol – Can be bought everywhere after a certain point in Chapter 5.
- M1899 – Can be bought from Saint Denis gunsmith any time after story mission “The Battle for Shady Belle” (Chapter 3) – PC EXCLUSIVE. Not in version 1.00 of the console versions, may be patched in at a later date on consoles.
- Midnight’s Pistol – Can be picked up after defeating the Legendary Gunslinger Billy Midnight, highly missable, during The Noblest of Men, and a Woman Stranger Mission.
Rifles
- Varmint-Rifle – Can be bought everywhere after a certain point in Chapter 1.
- Springfield Rifle – Can be bought everywhere after a certain point in Chapter 1.
- Bolt-Action Rifle – You will receive it automatically during Chapter 3.
Repeaters
- Carbine Repeater – You will receive it automatically during Chapter 1.
- Lancaster Repeater – You will receive it automatically during Chapter 2.
- Litchfield Repeater – You will receive it automatically during Chapter 6.
- Evans Repeater – Can be bought from any gunsmith after main mission “A Strange Kindness” (Chapter 2) – PC EXCLUSIVE. Not in version 1.00 of the console versions, may be patched in at a later date on consoles.
Shotgun
- Double-Barreled Shotgun – Can be bought everywhere.
- Sawed-off Shotgun – You will receive it automatically during Chapter 1.
- Pump-Action Shotgun – Can be bought everywhere after a certain point in Chapter 2.
- Semi-Auto Shotgun – Can be bought everywhere after a certain point in Chapter 4.
- Repeating Shotgun – Can be bought everywhere after a certain point in Chapter 6.
- Rare Shotgun – Starting in Chapter 2 you can find a guy with this shotgun in a hut north of Annesburg. He doesn’t like strangers and will shoot at you. Pick up his shotgun after dealing with him. You only have one chance to pick it up.
Sniper Rifles
- Rolling Block Rifle – Can be bought everywhere after a certain point in Chapter 2.
- Rare Rolling Block Rifle – in Chapter 3 during a mission you will be getting shot at by a sniper in a shed. Pick it up after killing him, you can only pick it up during this mission.
- Carcano Rifle – Can be bought everywhere after “Goodbye, dear friend” mission.
Bows
- Bow – there is only one bow in the game and you will receive it automatically very early in the game.
Throwables
- Throwing Knife – You will receive it automatically during the early missions.
- Tomahawk – Can be bought everywhere after a certain point in Chapter 2.
- Incendiary – Can be bought everywhere after a certain point in Chapter 3.
- Ancient Tomahawk – Can be found being stuck in a broken target in the east of Calumet Valley, east of Wapiti Indian Reservoir.
- Dynamite – You will receive it automatically during Chapter 1.
- Fire Bottle – Will get added to your inventory automatically during the story, also bought from Fences
- Volatile Fire Bottle – Craftable Upgrade
- Volatile Dynamite – Craftable Upgrade
- Improved Throwing Knife – Craftable Upgrade
- Poison Throwing Knife – Craftable Upgrade
- Improved Tomahawk – Craftable Upgrade
- Homing Tomahawk – Craftable Upgrade
Melee Weapons
- Unarmed – Unlocked from the start.
- Hunting Knife – Unlocked from the start.
- Hatchet – Can be bought everywhere after a certain point in Chapter 5.
- Broken Pirate Sword – Can be found in a wrecked boat on the small island south of Saint Denis bridge.
- Machete – Can be bought everywhere after a certain point in Chapter 5.
- Civil War Knife – Can be found in a chest in the basement of Fort Brennand, south-west of Van Horn. In the one building inside the Fort you can find a ladder to climb down into the basement.
- Jawbone Knife – Reward for finding all 30 dinosaur bones.
- Wide-Blade Knife – found on a corpse in Beryls-Dream-Mine, west of Mount Shann. You can enter the mine from the south. Interact with the Plunger at the start of the mine to blow up the entrance. Then you find the corpse with the knife inside this dark mine. Use a lantern if you have one, to find your way in the dark (can be selected under melee weapons in weapon wheel).
- Antler Knife – Found on a dead bear, north-west of Hanging-Dog-Ranch.
- Ornate Dagger – From Nosferatu (Vampire) in Saint Denis. You must find 5 markings around Saint Denis (south side of General Store, Alley East of Show, Alley behind Gunsmith, Storage area south of Trapper, south of Saloon). Then advance time until midnight and the meetup point with Nosferatu will be in your Journal. Do NOT meet Nosferatu while wanted by the lawmen or it will lock you out of this.
- Stone Hatchet – ONLY available if you have finished a certain treasure hunt in GTA-Online using the same Rockstar Social Account that’s connected to your RDR2. If you have done that, the Stone Hatchet can be found in the woods north of Owanjila lake.
- Rusted Double Bit Hatchet – Found on a tree stump in Annesburg, just a bit north of the coal mine.
- Viking Hatchet – Found in an old grave Viking grave at the southern end of Roanoke Valley (north-west of Annesburg).
- Rusted Hunter Hatchet – Found on a tree stump near a hut between Elysian Pool and O’Creagh’s Run.
- Hunter Hatchet – Found on a tree stump south of Window Rock by a hut.
- Hewing Hatchet – Found on a tree stump on the south edge of Moonstone Pond.
- Double Bit Hatchet – Found on a tree stump north-west of Wallace Station.
- Cleaver – Can be bought everywhere after a certain point in Chapter 5.
- John’s Knife – granted automatically.
That’s the full list of all 65 weapons.
For more RDR2 guides check out our full Red Dead Redemption 2 Wiki & Strategy Guide.
You can also get the machete in chapter 2 during the Javier mission where you save Sean, when Javier mentions that Charles is up there after killing the group of guys coming down the hill (not the 2 you knife), shoot the guy Charles is fighting and go loot the Machete off his body
Improve throwing knife, poison throwing knife, improved tomohawk and homing tomohawk all count towards the 59 weapons in my game, so that brings the total known up to 55
Volatile fire bottle also gets a compendium entry, so that brings us to 56
There is a cutlas in the boat in the islands cluster WE of Saint Denis.
Should be the broken pirate sword, I had to translate the weapons from german to english as good as possible and sometimes I probably chose the wrong word for a weapon.
Volatile Dynamite will increase total number of available weapons to 57. All these additional 6 throwables can be crafted (@Erogenous Jones’s 5 and this).
Yes, most of the melee weapon names are not accurate in English. As follows:
3. War Hatchet –> Hatchet
7. Jaw Bone Knife –> Jawbone Knife
8. Wide Knife –> Wide-Blade Knife
9. Horn Handle Knife –> Antler Knife
10. Stone War Hatchet –> Stone Hatchet
11. Rusty Double-Edged Hatchet –> Rusted Double Bit Hatchet
13. Rusty Hunter Throwing Hatchet –> Rusted Hunter Hatchet
14. Hunter Throwing Hatchet –> Hunter Hatchet
15. Meat Cleaver –> Hewing Hatchet
16. Double-Edged Hatchet –> Double Bit Hatchet
17. Butcher Hatchet –> Cleaver
Forgot to add that you need first find recipes for these 6 throwable
weapons. Two are given during story (Improved Throwing Knife and Improved Tomahawk). Recipes for four other must be looted from chests or huts.
Saw a video about a Vampire Dagger, but I don’t have it yet in my game. Could it be # 58?
I still cannot believe there is not a single website out there listing all 59 weapons, with a full picture of the complete compendium, a week after release.
Ornate Dagger
Why do you list Algernon’s Revolver as missable but not Jaw Bone Knife? I’m missing how they are any different.
Its possible that the mission for the Revolver is a missable mission while the Jaw Bone knife is a reward for a collectible
Both weapons are from collectibles. I’m confused too why one weapon is missable and the other one isn’t. You can’t miss out on any of those two missions.
Found another weapon (if I didn’t overlook it): Rare Double-Barrel Shotgun – Found in Manito Glade northwest of Annesburg, you need to kill a man who lives in a house in the woods to get this weapon.
That makes 58 weapons so far.
I meant northeast of Annesburg. That small hut near the Glade xD
Never mind. It’s called “Rare Shotgun” but in the description it’s called “Rare Double-Barreled Shotgun”. Mehh.
Wait a second. I found this on another site:
Rare Shotgun
There’s a cave on the far west of the map, north west of Big Valley, or west of Hanging Dog Ranch. Inside you’ll find the mysterious hermit who wields this Rare Shotgun. It doesn’t seem to be any more powerful than the regular double-barreled shotgun, but it looks amazing.
Rare Double-Barrel Shotgun
You’ll have to kill a man for this one. Open up your map and set your waypoint below the letter “a” in Manito Glade. In this area you will find a settler’s home in the woods, and he’s packing the Rare Double-Barrel Shotgun. Kill him and it’s yours. Just be sure to loot him, otherwise, you won’t collect it later in the game. The weapon is rather decorative, has a two round capacity and can use a variety of shotgun ammo.
So there are two different rare shotguns.
The cave devil guy doesn’t have the shotgun. Websites copying without verifying themselves.
There is a Ornate Dagger you get for finishing the vampire sidequest in Saint Denis.
Kill the vampire when he comes at you then pick it up.
I’ve done the stone hatchet challenge on gta and now it says /60 weapons so that may add its own slot. Haven’t checked with anyone else yet though.
Yes, after i did this chalenge it says /60 too.
It’s the same for me. The Stone Hatchet gets his own entry and is not part of the initial 59 weapons.
Johns marstons cattleman revolver and johns knife count to all 60 weapons
According to the Piggyback guide, your missing:
John’s Cattleman Revolver
Volatile Fire Bottle
Volatile Dynamite
Improved Throwing Knife
Poison Throwing Knife
Improved Tomahawk
Homing Tomahawk
John’s Knife
Ornate Dagger
This would make the count 60, not 59. One weapon must not count. My guess is maybe the Stone Hatchet. Can anyone confirm.
My dear, please tell me that I still can get 48 even though I haven’t got any of the missable weapons. I am able to get 43 weapons from the list
Rare Shotgun can be found by killing hermit at Manito Glade; Rare Rolling Block can be found on leader of bounty hunters that took Trelawny in the “Magicians for Sport” mission in chapter 3
Badly for me, the Manito Glade hermit isn´t there when I’m going there.
I’m in chapter 4 with a brand new caraco. I stole off a guy sleeping while rustling cows with uncle
Does the GTA double-action revolver have it’s own slot too? I’m still missing 1 weapon. The hatchet is already there so it must be something else..
I beat the game, how do I get the weapons I found like the broken pirate sword and stone hatchet back while playing as John. I’ve went back the spots and looked again and their not there. Thanks in advance!
All knives and axes are stacked, cycle through them
When you’re at the end of the Galen playing as John, you only have his knife and a lantern. I know they stack because I had all of them with Arthur. When I’m playing John, they aren’t there and I can’t get them back.
I have similar issue with Cleaver. Fences list that I have 1/1 in inventory (so can’t buy one back) but Compendium entry for it is empty. Similarly it isn’t in horses inventory.
I remember that I picked it up during story as Arthur, got Compendium notification and could use it normally. But now during post-story it’s gone.
Got reply from Rockstar Support:
“We are aware of this issue within the game. After you complete the story of Arthur the weapons you received are no longer accessible. Unfortunately, we are still looking into a solution for this.”
I haven’t got any of the missable weapons, can I still get 48 of them?
Yea, there 51 weapons you can get without miss able ones.
can you get the rare shotgun from the hermit in chapter 3 if you never found him in chapter 2?
Just had a “conversation” with him post-story and looted Rare Shotgun from him (never saw him before). Would suspect that he’s available also in earlier chapters.
So there should be 61 weapons in total. 59 in-game and 2 from GTA Online Challenges.
Missing from weapon list is:
59. Ornate Dagger (from Saint Denis side/stranger mission, as @John mentioned above). This completes main games Compendium.
Two GTA Online weapons will get their unique entries raising total to 61. Maybe they should be removed from main list and placed on separate one (GTA Online Unique Rewards)?
60. Stone Hatchet (from GTA Online, as confirmed multiple times above)
61. Double-Action Revolver (from GTA Online)
Double action revolver exists in game. You only get gold painting for after this challenge.
In the ‘throwables’ section, i read number 3. incendiary
But wich weapon is this? Cause i dont see it in my list and have bought all weapons for sure.
Did you ever figure this out?
You can get the Semi Auto shotgun by doing a home robbery in a hut north of Strawberry (Watson’s Cabin) by going in the basement and looting the gun case.
You can get semi auto shotgun in chapter 2 for free if you go to the house before hanging dog ranch its in the basement and if you steal from the old lady who’s an old bandit you can come back after a bit a kill both her and her sons how are all bandits
So what is the incendiary?
how do you get the GTA weapons because ive completed the challenges and i have been to the locations and i cant get them.
Now 64 weapons are available in story mode can somebody helps me to find last 2 please?
Quick question do u get all the guns n stuff u have collected with Arthur after he dies n u become John marston
Also are there any cool or unique weapons on gaurma I know I spell that wrong sorry
I got the machete from the night folks during their stranger mission (A fine night for this).
as early as chapter 2.
hi.
thanks for this guide .
i have 1 question.
are u sure we dont need all 63 weapons in compendium?
because i miss 2 of them from noble gunsingler strange mission.
Can’t complete 100% if you haven’t played GTA I’m not going to lie that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard in my life not everyone likes GTA.
From the newest patch of the game, you don’t have to do the Revolver mission in GTA Online anymore to get the High Roller Double Action Revolver, instead you can get it after you beat the mission “A fine night of Debauchery”, and then you will be able to buy it from any fence
actually you can get it earlier. there is a side mission with sean where you go on a home robbery and the double action revolver is in the bedroom in a box.