I was doing the quest for the Constitution when I noticed that I was getting clobbered in the health meter. I knew I was getting shot but wasn't expecting that kind of damage. The type of damage was greater than a 308. Does the enemy also use a 50 Cal? I have never seen them with one but have with a 308. After the battle I looked for anything that could cause that damage but had no luck. No energy weapons, only small Cal lead throwers.
 

I've picked up a few .50 cal Pipe Sniper Rifles I think. I scrap all of my scavenged weapons before my settlers steal them again.

Zuhl3156
I've picked up a few .50 cal Pipe Sniper Rifles I think. I scrap all of my scavenged weapons before my settlers steal them again.

 
I've picked a few up also but they were from storage containers. I don't recall any enemy having any however.
 
Weapons and armor, unless special and better than what I have gets scrapped as soon as possible. I don't fool around with it and I am always looking to increase the caps account.

I have picked up some nasty Hunting Rifles that deal a lot of damage. Having visited several settlements I notice almost everything in the Workbenches is gone except for Raider Power Armor pieces. I guess that's one thing those scrounging settlers can't scrap either. LOL  I have plenty of Power Armor stored at Home Plate. I am starting to pick up old Power Armor pieces and selling them to Vendors but it seems nobody but me has any caps. Whenever I run into someone that tries to Barter with me I just unload my garbage weapons and armor and take all of their caps.

Zuhl3156
I have picked up some nasty Hunting Rifles that deal a lot of damage. Having visited several settlements I notice almost everything in the Workbenches is gone except for Raider Power Armor pieces. I guess that's one thing those scrounging settlers can't scrap either. LOL  I have plenty of Power Armor stored at Home Plate. I am starting to pick up old Power Armor pieces and selling them to Vendors but it seems nobody but me has any caps. Whenever I run into someone that tries to Barter with me I just unload my garbage weapons and armor and take all of their caps.

 
Have you invested in the shops? Adds 500 caps to their bottom line. It takes about 2 or 3 in game days before vendors are resupplied with goods and caps.

Check your Steam game library for FO 4 and look at your hours that you played it. For some reason I am short 100 hours. I was a little over 800 and now I am at 701.

I set up a clothing shop for the woman who was married to the loser who ran that radio station. I gave her nothing to start with and out of nowhere she had suits, T-shirts and jeans, hats and numerous other things to wear. I just build a shop because it is supposed to make my settlers happy. I never give them anything to start out with. They are growing plenty of food to sell so I don't see a problem there. I might be getting paranoid but I have been worried about those Provisioners and their Brahmin stuck on that roof. I hope I don't get back to Egret Marina and find their skeletal remains.

whiskers54
Check your Steam game library for FO 4 and look at your hours that you played it. For some reason I am short 100 hours. I was a little over 800 and now I am at 701.

Steam says I have 359 hrs but ingame stats have me lower than that for somme reason. I stopped paying attention. Yes, I know my keyboard is double typing and I am tired of it. Instead of spending hours trying to edit my posts I'll just let everyone see Corsair garbage in action.

Since neither of you are running any weapons mods (that I know of), then no you shouldn't be running into anyone using a .50 caliber rifle against you.  But a fully modded (and ugly) assault rifle can do a lot of damage in a hurry, same with a mini-gun.  
 

Zuhl3156
I set up a clothing shop for the woman who was married to the loser who ran that radio station. I gave her nothing to start with and out of nowhere she had suits, T-shirts and jeans, hats and numerous other things to wear. I just build a shop because it is supposed to make my settlers happy. I never give them anything to start out with. They are growing plenty of food to sell so I don't see a problem there. I might be getting paranoid but I have been worried about those Provisioners and their Brahmin stuck on that roof. I hope I don't get back to Egret Marina and find their skeletal remains.

 
By investing caps into the shops you increase the amount of caps that they will have on hand which will raise their amount of caps the moment you do as well as for future selling.
 
Building shops does increase the happiness in settlements. I build the largest one of each shop. After that I will build the Food and Drink shop several times in a settlement. That one seems more productive than the rest of them.
 
All you have to do is drop a large floor platform between the rock ledge and the roof line. This will provide a path for them to leave the roof. Once I did this I have had no further issues with it. Leave the floor platform there once you lay it down.