Shovel (Fallout: New Vegas)

The shovel is a weapon and a tool in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
A wood handled shovel, useful for digging up graves. In combat it can be used against weaker enemies without wasting ammunition or the durability of stronger melee weapons.

Its special V.A.T.S. attack is "Grand Slam", which does regular damage, but knocks enemies down at the cost of 36 action points (requires a Melee skill of 50).

Durability
The shovel can successfully strike about 1495 times from full condition before breaking.

Locations

 * Outside of Goodsprings next to the second water valve from the town near the Goodsprings Source you come across it in the in-game tutorial by Sunny Smiles, most notably it is fully repaired, costs no caps and doesn't take the player outside of the starting area where they are prompted to rebuild the character or continue.
 * You can buy one in poor condition from Chet in the Goodsprings General Store.
 * You can sometimes buy one from Johnson Nash in Primm.
 * One can be found on the floor next to the coffins on level 2 of the X-8 research center.