Yes a springer will equal the accuracey without the pumping no doubt on that but at the time all I had was a Meteor Mark 5 in .22 and an old Crossman 766 in .177
The heavey springers like HW,s were out of my reach due to finance or lack of it both of the guns were/ are effective hunters at short range and the fact that at that time there were a lot more rabbits. Over hunting/ poaching and hunting out of season by the great unwashed and work shy locally have decimated there numbers has well has a few deliberatly introducded cases of myxy.