Possible for rifle to not spawn anywhere?

[JeffL0320]

I'm going on 6 days in my current playthrough, I have painstakingly searched every nook and cranny of every building (including the fallout shelter) in the game and have not found the rifle. Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone know any obsure locations where it can spawn? Will make further survival much more difficult without it lol

[RJIII]

Had my longest run without the rifle 19 days, but it is random sometimes it's there sometimes it isn't, makes you think outside the box a bit.

[Vagos]

After the latest update, rifle can be found anywhere and off course no longer 100% chance on Trappers.

I found it close to the Camp Office, right next to a dead body.

So it seems to be completely random from now on.

My question is, do we have a chance to find two or more rifles? What if you miss it out of the open?

[elloco999]

With the v.152 update at least 1 rifle will spawn somewhere. But it seems there are much more places it can spawn now so you never know where it'll be.

And Trappers Homestead didn't have a 100% spawn rate for the rifle in v.136-v.138 either. Don't know about pre v.136 since I only started playing a couple of days before the v.136 update.

[Pithekos]

On my playtrough (12 days, i think), which was started before the coastal highway map update, I found 3 hunting rifles and still haven`t discovered whole map. I found them at the trappers, the dam and a lookout in coastal highway