Vepr TKM .366 confirmed garbage.
Had much better results with 12g Saiga and MP153 running live in Woods, killed a few scavs at night, got loot, got gear fear for my now full backpack and went on my way to extract. Got careless, too close to road, "cheeki breeki" *bang* headshot. Not even mad though, my own fault.
Just like the other run I did, scav in interchange, where I spawned in at 25 minutes left. Ran around a bit, found some pieces of loot, then on my way to SE extract stumbled across a corpse. Hey, more loot, nice. Looted in no haste because 5 minutes is plenty from there to exit. Turn around to look for more corpses, player scav kneeling there looking at me. *bang* headshot.
And that brings me to my point, players. I still lose to other players 99% of the time. But hey it's ok, someone has to feed them gear.