How To Get The Unique “Cram Opener” Bladed Gauntlet In Fallout: New Vegas

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The Cram Opener is a unique Bladed Gauntlet that you can get from Little Buster at Camp McCarran.

Quick tips before you go off to get the weapon:

Little Buster dies after Three-Card Bounty. A few days after you finish the quest “Three-Card Bounty”, Little Buster will go to Freeside instead and die.
Reverse pickpocketing the Cram Opener. The Cram Opener can be reverse pickpocketed from Little Buster, eliminating the need to kill him. Guide to reverse pickpocketing here.

Acquisition

As mentioned in the tips section, there are 2 places where the Cram Opener can be:

Camp McCarran. Before you complete Three-Card Bounty, Little Buster can be found punching a training dummy in the Camp McCarran courtyard.
Freeside. Several days after you complete Three-Card Bounty, Little Buster will go to Freeside and die in the Alleyway next to the Old Mormon Fort.

Make your way to Camp McCarran, located south of the Strip.

Enter through the main gate.

Go straight from the entrance until you reach the courtyard.

Look to the right, you should see a man in metal armor punching a training dummy.

Approach him and either reverse-pickpocket it from him or kill him.

Enter through Freeside’s northern gate, located west of the Crimson Caravan company.

Walk down the street and take the first left, going into an alley, following a railroad.

You’re likely going to get attacked by two thugs, deal with them, and follow the train tracks.

Eventually, you’ll see a man in metal armor lying dead on the tracks. He has the Cram Opener on his body.

The Cram Opener deals slightly more damage (28 damage vs 25 damage).
It attacks slightly faster (1.7 attacks/second vs 1.57 attacks/second).
It’s slightly more durable (370 attacks before breaking vs 295 attacks before breaking).

In unpatched versions of the game, the weapon is far more powerful, as it ignores enemy DT and DR.
Thanks to its relatively easy acquisition, high damage, and decent attack speed, it’s a competitor for the place of best early-game unarmed weapon.