Guns spring

SPRING PISTOLS

The spring system is one of the oldest operating principles of air guns and is still one of the most widely used. Most spring air pistols operate on a break-barrel system. By breaking the barrel, the piston spring is compressed and a latch with a safety secures it from releasing, creating stored potential energy in the spring. When the trigger is squeezed, the spring releases, pushing on the piston, which compresses the air in the cylinder and releases the resulting pressure into the barrel, which houses the pellet, which is set in motion by the air pressure in the barrel. The accumulated potential energy of the spring is thus converted into the motion energy of the air and the pellet.

An exception to the break barrel system is e. g. the Czech model LOV 2. In this case, the barrel is compressed towards the body of the gun. When the trigger is pulled, the barrel is thrown forward and then stopped abruptly. The pellet is ejected from the barrel by inertia. Despite the low projectile energy, it is still very popular, mainly because of its low price and out of nostalgia, as it has been in production for several decades and was shot by our fathers or even grandfathers during socialism.

As a rule of thumb, the smaller the design of the gun, the smaller the spring it can fit and the lower the projectile energy. Recently, some manufacturers have been replacing conventional springs with nitrogen pistons, such as Gamo with IGT technology.

THEIR USE

Because of the relatively low projectile energy and short barrel, their accuracy and range cannot be compared to long air guns. They are intended more for hobby shooting, for beginners, for juveniles and less demanding shooters for shooting from distances of about 10 to 15 m. Due to the low projectile energy, we do not recommend experimenting with pellets heavier than 0.60 g.

The most powerful spring model in our offer is the Umarex Trevox air pistol, which replaced the time-tested and popular Ruger Mark I model. However, cheaper models by Gamo and Umarex are also very popular.