Original question has been answered in spades I'd say.

All I can add - and Arthur made the point on page one - is that to provide lasting fun, interest and motivation any sport or pastime
needs to involve a level of perfection that is out of reach. If you think about it, most sportsmen, no matter how accomplished, spend most of their careers 'missing' and not winning. The winners win by reducing their errors, not by being perfect. The occasional outstanding feats are duly celebrated and cherished.

This is the very essence of what keeps us coming back for more. To do better next time, to try harder to master the near impossible.
Hope springers eternal as they say:-)

Putting pest control to one side - which requires ultimate accuracy wherever and whenever possible - if what I have written above is in any way correct, then why would anyone want to deny themselves the pleasure of trying and failing, trying and failing, trying and succeeding by equipping themselves with a piece of machinery that almost entirely robs them of that satisfaction?

Pellet on pellet is surely not only the shooter's paradox but also his hell on earth.

Missing is essential and the springer's the tool for that job and long may it last!

Just a thought
Hombre