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Choosing the right airgun can be tough, but one of the main considerations that you need to make is the power source of the airguns you’re looking at. Different power sources will come with different price tags, different uses, and different safety concerns, and you should know just what you’re getting before you spend a dime on a new airgun.
A spring piston air gun uses a spring to hold in air before you shoot it, and these guns have a huge amount of power behind them. In fact, some of these types of guns can actually release pellets at a speed close to the speed of sound! These guns are popular because they make it easy to shoot consecutive shots, but they can be difficult for some women and children to cock, since they take quite a bit of pressure to cock.
A variation on the spring piston theme is the gas spring. Instead of a mechanical spring, this type of gun uses a spring that is powered by pressurized air or gas. These guns offer a lot of accuracy, and they can also be cocked for a long time, which is something that will wear down a mechanical spring gun.
Pneumatic airguns use air without a spring to shoot the bullets. You can buy single pump, multi-pump, and pre-charged pneumatic guns. These guns all have different advantages, but they offer the same basic capabilities. You pump the gun like you pumped a squirt gun as a kid, and the air that you put into the pressurized container forces the pellet out when you pull the trigger.
Single pump pneumatic guns are convenient, but multi-pump guns give you the power to change your shooting speed depending on how much you pump the gun. Pre-charged pneumatic guns are convenient, but they take extra parts.