Focus fire to gain high accuracy and damage per shot.
personally, I use overseer's guardian for enemies at my level (with 308 ammo) and use gauss rifle for high powered single shots. Combat Rifle Short Ported Barrel in Fallout 4 is a Weapon Mod. Fallout 76 introduced a very similar model to that which you may already be familiar with from Fallout 4. I may matter more in VATS? Gauss Rifle damage is affected by normal damage resistance - it's ballistic as it's. Fallout 4 does not properly explain the different types of armor to the player.
