Shovel Fighting

Kind of a slow day for the blog. I woke up this morning, feeling like I had the flu. After a few items of unpleasantness, it slowly passed, but now I'm dealing with a backlog at the office, occasional tremors from the earlier sickness, and a dearth of interesting material from the Internet.

So please excuse this unorthodox post, but I found it bizarrely interesting. Shovel fighting.

As far as an open space is concerned, the entrenching shovel has no match to it among other kinds of cold steel. First, it is light-weighted and handy. Second, it is efficient both at middle and close distances, and even at long distances, in regard to a close combat, of course.

With the entrenching shovel, one can throw a handful of soil or sand at the enemy's face from a distance of four to five meters and profit by enemy's confusion to shorten the distance needed for a blow. Besides, the entrenching shovel is an excellent throwing implement - the range of aimed throw made by a well-trained specialist is 10 meters or more.