1. Which do you prefer in a life-or-death situation: the shovel, or a pistol with 15+1 rounds?
In many cases it may be the shovel. Even if it is personal defence, the shovel may be what I actually have.
2. You have been training with a weapon for the last ten years (it can be a hand spear, knife, whatever). You haven't dug a day in your life. In a life-or-death situation, what would you prefer to have: the dedicated weapon you know well, or an improvised tool you've never touched?
Humans have an innate ability to use clubs and similar devices as a weapon. That is not the case with firearms.
Not so long ago military service was mandatory for males around here. In the training the combat use of shovels was thaught. In the right service branch the grunts got more opportunity to dig holes than to handle a rifle.
In a fight Iīd prefer the shovel over the knife any day. Itīs simply more effective. The same is true for digging a hole.
Iīll agree with you that most of the civilian buyers of the Spetsnaz shovel wont even come close to use it in combat.
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