Our mad scientist also has a fondness for explosives, but hasn't had an opportunity to use it... yet. Today we got into a couple fights vs random monsters. A group of tumblebleeds was first. I overkilled one heavily thanks to some very explodey damage dices, and got the killing blow on two others. The only one who got sucked was the zombie woman in the group, so that tumblebleed would have been very drunk before it got blasted to bits by a rifle.
Then a couple days later we encountered a dust devil. Time to shine for me and the scientist, as we were the ones that could attack it without a penalty. Although the mexican did get a shot in on it first too, thankfully hitting as that monster will spit back any projectile that misses it and it has a large penalty on hitting it with regular weapons.