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# Shovel Fighting
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/3022/
- Published: 2005-11-14T17:54:16.000Z
- Updated: 2005-11-14T17:54:16.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

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](http://www.spetsnaz-gru.com/spetsnaz-entrenching-shovel-1.htm?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).

> 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.