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The spring piston airgun generates power using a powerful spring-loaded piston that is housed within a compression chamber. Cocking the gun (using a break barrel, side lever, or under lever mechanism) causes the piston assembly to compress the spring. When the spring is released it pushes the piston forward compressing a column of air in the chamber behind the pellet.
This is a review for many of you, but we have enough new readers that perhaps itâs good to go over the points of how the spring-piston gun works. What Iâm about to say holds true for guns with gas springs as well as guns with coiled steel mainsprings.s a rule, long-stroke spring-piston guns are the most sensitive to hold, and long-stroke breakbarrels are the most sensitive of all. Then thereâs the weight of the piston to consider. A heavy piston causes more rearward recoil when it begins moving and more forward recoil when it comes to a stop.