You'll enter into dodgy ground here regarding ethics, morals and ability.
You'll often hear these comments re HFT ... but it is especially relevant re springers ...
You have the choice when out hunting with a springer ( or any other air rifle ) to take on the shot or not. To take the shot as it presents itself or to try and get in a better position ... or leave the shot entirely.
You now get into the woolly world of " Only take the shot if you are confident that you will make a clean kill " and " Only take the shot if you can put the pellet inside a 1 inch circle at that range and in that position in those conditions ( wind etc )".
You'll have to answer yourself if the majority of people hunting with an air rifle, and especially a springer, actually adhere to those guidelines.
The only certain thing is ... if you are out hunting and quarry presents itself, but to take the shot from your present position means that you think you may miss or wound, then you have the option to not take the shot or move to a better position ( that may be just moving a couple of feet ).
If you are shooting a competition course there is no option other than to take the shot and to take the shot in the position that the rules and target layout demand. For a springer shooter on a decent HFT course ... that means quite a few shots will put you into lottery territory.
A lot of people limit their hunting to a reasonable range and that may be 30 yards. So shooting a rabbit in the head at 25 yards will probably get you a kill if you can put the pellet inside 25 to 30mm. In HFT you will get targets at 25 yards with a 15mm kill zone and you may be taking the shot out of your comfort zone position. You'll get a far higher percentage of misses at a 15mm kill in an uncomfortable position at 25 yards with a springer than you would trying to place inside 25-30mm in a position of your choice.
It's fun ... it's just tough. You have to decide if it's an extra challenge or too many shots are a lottery for it to be sport. If the extra variables in POI's with a springer due to enforced 'Out of range style variations' means that you can miss regularly, even if you've judged the range and wind correctly, and have released the shot well, then that's a lottery and not down to shooter performance.
Shoot it for several years with both a PCP and a springer. Look hard at the results and spot scores from top springer men. You'll find that a good springer shooter can put in just as good groups at the range, even at max ranges, as the PCP guys. So they can shoot a springer very accurately. You'll see decent PCP guys putting in similar scores ( prob high 50's ) week after week. It will only be in very windy conditions that you will see decent PCP men shooting obviously low scores. You will see decent springer men sometimes scoring very well ( just a few behind the top PCP ) but you will see them regularly putting in a low score ( middish to late 40's ). The scores are far more variable. Their technique and consistency isn't that different from the decent PCP guys. It's just that their numbers don't come up on the lottery some weeks. Just how it is.
The OP should definitely give HFT a serious go with the springer. He'll just have to accept that some weeks he'll be driving home and scored low despite him thinking that he didn't do a lot wrong. If he's happy with that then he'll have years of fun.