WeaponMelee
Shovel
A spade swung as an improvised melee weapon.
- Damage
- 15
- Fire rate
- 40
- Range
- 1.6 m
Overview
The Shovel is a melee weapon in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. It is a garden spade pressed into service as an improvised weapon. It occupies the melee weapon slot.
Performance
It works like other long blunt weapons, with good reach and slow, heavy swings.
How to get
It can be found as a pickup at certain locations.
Tips
- Use its reach to keep attackers at bay.
- Mostly a novelty compared with the bat or katana.
- Gift-slot items have almost no combat value; their real use is during dates with CJ's girlfriends.
Spawn locations
- Backyard of Ryder's house, Ganton, Los Santos
- Under one of the Dinghy shacks, The Panopticon, Red County
- By the makeshift graves west of Catalina's hideout, Fern Ridge, Red County
- Graveyard in the southwest corner of Palomino Creek, Red County
- By a coal pile on the east side of Angel Pine Junkyard, Whetstone
- In front of a beige and white beachfront house, Ocean Flats, San Fierro
- Bottom of Hunter Quarry, Bone County
- Northeast part of the apartment complex tennis courts, northeast Prickle Pine, Las Venturas
- Las Venturas Stadium, Redsands West, Las Venturas
- Hidden south of the large skull, Pirates in Men's Pants, Las Venturas
- Sometimes an NPC driver the player crashes into gets angry and attacks with one
Moves with weapon
- Jump
Missions 1
Gangs 1
Associated characters 1
On the map
