Pistol

The humble pistol is an excellent starting weapon for the scout. The entire clip of 12 bullets is reloaded at once, taking only one second to do so. By default it shoots one bullet every 0.16 seconds with a maximum deviation of only 9°. They do a clobbering 9 damage, enough to two-shot most enemies. For reference, a basic bat does only 4 damage.

Strategy
Mandarbmax says: Pistols are amazing weapons, toss even a basic multishot on them and they utterly destroy most opponents.