that other gas vs electric thread is a bit vague with the ??, and this is a bit more specific so i figure i post this sepreately.
i know a bunch of you are only into super high end stuff, i cant afford it (yet). but ive been fooling around with different cheaper guns,
for us broke fools

ive had a half decent, basically low end cheap spring pistol for quite awhile. it shoots ok if i were playing against people, but for targets. ehh, not great. about half the pellets fly off at crazy angles

hop up- bites it big time when shooting at targets , but does appear to travel the pellet a little farther. when it hits a target though, the spin will cause the pellet to just bounce off paper rather than go through.
same with cheaper electric guns

cheap electrics are about the worst. you get kinda fast shots, thats about it. no power, no accuracy at all.

my cheap gas PPK ($25) is about hte best so far. it will definitely be worth saving up to get a better one- one thing i was worried about, using mine in my apt was the noise- the gas actually fires more quietly than my strong spring gun-

and although you have to pay for gas, i am getting about 90 rounds per fill up, so far 5 fillups off a tiny bottle of gas, and plenty left.

theyre not kidding about rapid firing too many shots though- you cant, the gun loses pressure if it gets cold- we were laoding and emptying pretty fast,. as long as you take a few seconds between sohts or at least after a full mag, it warms up again. theyre lying about the 250 fps, it is nowhere near that strong, but good enough to pierce my paper targets and much tighter than the spring. there are still some shots that fly off at weird angles sometimes-
if anyone made it this far, and you have a GOOD gas gun- does it shoot straight every time? how straight? real solid small groups ?
not very long distance, like 10 yards at most

i know good rifles are waaaay better than this......

and even the $50 electrics do much better and are well worth it.

bottom line, having tried a number of cheap spring, gas , and electric guns - the gas is far superior if you want to spend less than $30

cant wait to have $100 at once to blow on a real gas pistol eventually, but the cheapy will hold me over.