If you're not playing Tourneys, it can be fun to have a pistol with you to whip out at short notice(!) or when your gas goes down... (Mine did this weekend and I used a Supasplat kiddies paintball pistol to take out the flag runner....or maybe that was the guy firing the impy from the window??....nahhh, sure it was my pistol!)
But in tournaments you can't use a sidearm and in recball don't put your gat down for a pistol. As in live gunfights...There's no point, their range is too limited. And though i've never used a proper 12gram pistol i've never heard great things about them.
Also what le-pig isn't telling you is that after this player took out four guys the springloader snapped forward into the remainder of the balls in the tube and crushed them all, turning it into a soupfest
I agree with Superfly, stick with your imagine for now...learn the game with it, Spyders are versatile markers and can get into the pond with the big boys, even if they do stay in the shallow end. Then when you think you've progressed, move up the spectrum and pick up something a bit more suited to the level your at in your game.
