I don't think you should replace the elder because then you're stuck with wiping out the Brotherhood for the NCR questline and I imagine that's the one you're going for. By the way I looked it up just for curiosity's sake and it turns out theres a total of 100 skill books, 4 of which are Guns books. Let's see if you can find em!
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I don't think you should replace the elder because then you're stuck with wiping out the Brotherhood for the NCR questline and I imagine that's the one you're going for. By the way I looked it up just for curiosity's sake and it turns out theres a total of 100 skill books, 4 of which are Guns books. Let's see if you can find em!