FX Monsoon, .22. Have yet to see a semi-auto springer.
FWB 124D, .177
AA 410ERBSL .22 
HW97, .20 cal
Benjamin Marauder Pistol, .22
Beeman R9, .20 cal
Benjamin Discovery .177
Theoben Crusader .20 cal
I've been shooting springers for over four decades. It took awhile to learn to shoot them even halfway decent. It took even longer to learn to shoot them really well, but I did.
I shot them, because four decades ago, that's what was available to me. You either learned to master their weaknesses and idiosyncrasies, or you moved on to other things. SSP's, MSP's, and Co2 guns held no interest for me.
I primarily hunt with my airguns, and living in the windy, wide open spaces of the West, a lot of the shooting I do is at long range, as in 80 to 100+ yards in the wind. For years, I was frustrated with the lack of performance of my springers at long range, especially in the wind.
To try and get a gun that was capable, power wise, of doing what I needed, I purchased a Theoben Crusader .20 cal. The Dealer talked me out of the more powerful Eliminator, and I'm glad he did. The Crusader was beautifully made. The fit and finish were second to none. It was producing about 17/18 fpe at the muzzle. After one season in the field with it though, I moved it along. Why? Because the thing weighed a ton, took about 45 pounds of cocking effort, and the recoil was substantial. Cocking that thing 100 plus times on a ground squirrel hunt, the weight, and the substantial recoil, took the fun out of hunting with it, and in the end, hunting with airguns, for me, is about having fun.
I eventually bought two PCP's. The first was my Logun MK II in .20 cal, and the second was a Logun Solo, in .22. Man, I thought I had died and gone to heaven. Now we're talking. None of this hold sensitivity nonsense anymore. I put up with that kind of thing for decades. Not because it made me feel cool, or a cut above other shooters because I could shoot a springer really well. I put up with it because I basically had no choice.
When I decided to go PCP, a whole new world of long range varmint shooting opened up to me. Similar to when I went from shooting rimfires, and bought my first .22 hornet, and then a .22-250. Wow, what a difference in down range performance. Same with the difference between springers and PCP's.
I'm always hearing, "yeah, but there's more stuff to buy to be able to shoot a PCP." So what. There's more stuff involved to owning a car, compared to owning a bicycle. To me, the huge increase in down range performance I get from hunting with PCP's, makes it more than worthwhile to deal with the few extra things needed to use them.
I don't dislike my springers. If I did, I wouldn't own any, but I'm not so blind, that I believe they are in the same league as my PCP's. I hang onto most of them for nostalgic reasons. I've had a lot of fun with them over the decades. I used to have tube amps, turntables, and LP records too, but there are better choices today. Same with my airguns, there are better choices than springers for what I do today. Those choices are about PCP airguns of various types.
A common complaint is, "PCP's are easier to shoot than springers. It's harder to miss when shooting PCP's than it is with springers, and that's boring." I guess extreme accuracy can bore some folks, not me. Like a springer being difficult to shoot, is some sort of admirable attribute. Believe it or not, when I pick up a PCP to shoot something, not missing is actually my goal. I've spent four decades shooting springers, I've proven many times over to myself, that in spite of their issues, I've learned to shoot them quite well. I don't view that as some kind of merit badge. I view that as something that I had no real choice in. Learn to do it or move on. I've enjoyed all of the springer issues I can for one lifetime.
Another complaint about PCP's is, "they're boring, they have no personality." There is absolutely nothing boring about shooting a gun, that I know will put a pellet in a ground squirrel, or prairie dogs head at 100+ yards, in the wind, and do it on demand time after time. Boring? No way! Yeah, you do need a high level of shooting skill to do that time after time.
Springer shooters, when deriding PCP's, love to say, "but, but, they leak." Well they most certainly can, however I haven't personally found that to be an issue. The implication being, that springers are perfect little angels, that never cause any problems at all.
Except, if you've spent more than ten minutes on any of the airgun forums, you can't help but notice the never ending posts about broken springs and other parts, seals that are shot, barrels that are bent from letting them go when cocking, and they slam shut in the receiver. When that happens, in addition to bending the barrel, a good part of the time, they also break the stock at the pistol grip. Worst possible case, they take off a finger tip or worse. We really shouldn't skip the fact that the heavy recoil eats scopes. The fact that you have to practically weld the rings to the receiver to keep them from slipping is another fine attribute of springers. Another is, the action screws that are constantly vibrating loose, and the list goes on.
Another claim is, learning to shoot a springer well, will make you a better shooter with other types of guns. Not for me it didn't. What made me a better shooter overall, is decades of long range varmint shooting with powder burners. Decades of learning to shoot prairie dogs, and rock chucks at 400, and 500+ yards, in the wind, with lots of running mirage, is what made me the shooter I am today. Not shooting spring powered airguns.
Some of the guns I used were custom varmint rifles built to benchrest specs, in calibers like, .257 Ackley Improved, .264 Win Mag, .25-06, .22-250 Ackley Improved, and .220 swift. By the way, what we considered long range back in those days, is now considered to be medium range at best.
Shooting springers, just taught me to shoot springers well. All that I know about long range shooting in the wind and mirage, came from decades of shooting powder burners. What I learned there mapped over quite nicely to shooting PCP's today, at long range, in the wind with running mirage.
So like my snow shovel, (springer) has it's place in dealing with the winter snows, (small jobs like clearing the porch) my snow blower, (PCP) is what I reach for when I need a serious tool to deal with a foot or two of snow in the driveway, or a PCP, when shooting prairie dogs at 80 plus yards in the wind is the rule of the day.
I rarely shoot my springers anymore. There is just something addictive about shooting a powerful, recoilless rifle, where many times I can watch the pellet in flight, as it zeros in on a ground squirrel, or prairie dogs head at 80 plus yards.
I've used springers for years, I've learned to shoot them quite well inspite of the issues they bring to the party. Over the years, I've embraced power steering, power brakes, and automatic transmissions on my vehicles. I can still drive a stick, and manual steering and brakes wouldn't be an issue, but why, when there are much better choices for the kind of driving I do today. The same reason I've gone from hunting with springers to hunting with PCP's. The PCP is just a much better tool for what I do.
Another slam against PCP's you hear quite often is, when going hunting you have to take so much extra stuff. Assuming that you are hunting legally, that is nonsense. The daily bag limits are way less than the number of shots you're going to get from a PCP. My lowest shot count PCP, is my Discovery, and that's only because I have it set to give me 15 shots with a very low extreme spread.
I have never even come close to running out of air when hunting tree squirrels (limit 5) with that gun. The same when hunting cottontails. The limit is ten, but I never take more than two or three on a hunt. So claiming that there just aren't enough shots from a PCP, when hunting game legally, is a false statement, and just another lame excuse. Or, just maybe, some guys are such poor shots, that when shooting a springer, they need to shoot a pocket full of pellets to get their five squirrels.
When I do take air, it's actually only two or three extra pieces. The tank, a hose, and maybe a fill probe. What? Like that takes an extra hour to put in the truck? The reality is, 90 percent of the time I'm hunting, I'll never use even one fill of air. The same guys, that complain about extra gear to shoot PCP's, have no problem taking extra stuff so they can eat and stay warm. Like an ice chest, with ice, food and drink. Not to mention folding chairs, extra clothes, hats, and toilet paper. If they're camping over, there's a ton more stuff they take. The claim of too much additional gear needed to shoot PCP's is just another lame excuse.
Next week, weather permitting, I'm hoping to go tree squirrel hunting. The gun of choice is my AA 410CRBSL .22 carbine. What will go with me is, the gun, it gives me 20 shots on a fill, and one magazine holding 10 rounds. The squirrel limit is five. The chances that I will actually have a shot at five squirrels are very slim, and if I do, the chances that I will need ten shots to take five squirrels, are also very slim. These guys are well spread out around the forest, and two or three shots at squirrels is more typical. I'm not seeing any advantage to hunting with a springer. With my PCP, I've got 28 fpe of easily controlled, accurate, recoilless energy at my finger tips, and I don't have to think about any of the issues that come with shooting springers.
I can see the sport of plinking, as being where a springer could really shine, but I don't plink, so in my corner of the world, doing what I do with airguns, I've made the jump to PCP's and never look back.
Springers don't do well out here.
When the wind is doing this, and the shots are going to be long.
Benjamin Marauder, .25 cal PCP. Prairie dogs to 100+ yards, in the wind, is a non issue with this rig. 
At the distances that I shoot varmints, when it comes to the power and accuracy needed to do the job, I'll take one of my PCP's over any springer, every time.
Are PCP's for everyone? Nope, but for what I do with airguns, I made the jump from springers to PCP's years ago, have never regretted it, and I won't be going back anytime soon.
