Firedrake Pistol
"This hefty +1 flaming pistol is elaborately carved with its barrel in the semblance of a roaring dragon and its grip wrapped in polished red dragonhide. When firing ordinary ammunition, the wielder may choose to have the firedrake pistol deal all of its damage as fire damage instead of normal damage. In addition, as a standard action the wielder may expend 1 unit of ammunition and create a cone of fire equivalent to burning hands rather than resolving that shot as a normal attack."
If a gunslinger chooses the option to "deal all of its damage as fire damage", can the gunslinger add, as fire damage, the bonuses that come from Deadly Aim and/or Gun Training?
I'm guessing yes. My hesitancy is wondering if feats and abilities are seen as PART of "its" damage or if they are seen as ADDING to "its" damage. I strongly suspect the former, but would like to be sure.
Example: Gunslinger Base Attack Bonus 8; Dexterity 20; Has Gun Training with Pistol
Uses deadly aim.
Attack roll: Base 8 + DEX 5 +1 pistol - 3 deadly aim = +11 attack
Damage: 1d8 base +1 pistol + 5 DEX (gun training) + 6 deadly aim = 1d8+12 (critical x4) all fire damage ?
Edit: and would there also be +1d6 for Flaming?
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Deadly Aim has the restriction, "The bonus damage does not apply to touch attacks or effects that do not deal hit point damage;" however, the firearm rules say that firearm touch attacks don't count as touch attacks for that restriction. The feat says nothing about ranged weapons that deal energy damage, so it works normally for them. Go ahead and apply Deadly Aim and Gun Training to the fire bullet from the firedrake pistol. The extra damage from Deadly Aim and Gun Training would be fire damage, too. And it would get the additional +1 damage from the +1 enhancement and the 1d6 fire damage from the flaming enchantment, too, because the damage type of the bullet does not matter for them, either.