There are a lot of good spring Airsoft rifles on the market. A quick perusal of the premiere online stores like Airsplat and Airsoft Extreme will fill you in the particulars. Here are some useful generalities.
Spring Airsoft Rifles will never give you the power of gas guns or AEGs. What they lack in power, however, they make up for with ease of use. Because they are less complex, they are also less apt to screw up or break down in combat.
Spring Airsoft Rifles: the Old Standby
You don't have to change the power source, unless your springs go kablooee. (This can happen with any weapon, no matter what its power source, since they all use springs.) All you have to do is cock and fire.
It may sound wimpish, all this reliance on gas and electric. People have been shooting at each other for hundreds of years without the benefit of external power sources. In the end, I'll take a great shooter using spring Airsoft rifles over a dork with the latest gizmo, any day of the week.
