Gas or Electric Airsoft Rifles: Which Is More Fun?

If you ask ten airsoft players whether gas or electric rifles are more fun, you will get ten passionate answers and at least two arguments. Here is the short version, up front, so you can stop scrolling and start deciding: gas blowback rifles are more fun, and electric rifles are easier to live with. If fun is your only metric, buy gas. If you want the rifle that works every weekend with the least fuss, buy electric. Most players who stay in the hobby for years end up owning both, and this guide explains why, so you can pick the right one first.

This is not the technical power-system comparison. That article already exists, and it covers gas, CO2, and electric side by side on specs, efficiency, and cost. This one is about the experience: what it feels like to shoot each platform, what a game day looks like with each one, what maintenance feels like after the novelty wears off, and how each platform behaves when the weather turns against you. By the end you will know which player you are, and which rifle belongs in your hands first.

1. The Short Answer: Two Kinds of Fun

Airsoft has two kinds of fun, and they pull in opposite directions. The first is the fun of the shot itself: the kick against your shoulder, the snap of the bolt, the sound, the feeling that the rifle in your hands is doing something mechanical and alive. The second is the fun of the game: staying in the fight, laying down covering fire, never worrying about your equipment, and walking off the field at the end of the day without a single malfunction story to tell.

Gas blowback rifles, usually shortened to GBBRs, win the first kind of fun by a wide margin. Every shot cycles a real bolt carrier. The rifle kicks. The bolt locks back on the last round. You press a bolt catch to reload, exactly the way the real-steel manual of arms works. It is immersive in a way that no electric rifle can match, because the mechanism is not simulating recoil with a weight on a spring. It is actually moving metal with expanding gas, and your shoulder can tell the difference.

Automatic electric guns, or AEGs, win the second kind of fun just as clearly. A charged battery and a high-capacity magazine will carry you through an entire game day. The performance barely changes from the first shot to the last. Cold weather, hot weather, rain, dust: the AEG shrugs and keeps shooting. When your only goal is to play hard and never think about your rifle, the AEG is the most forgiving tool in the sport.

Neither answer is a trick, and neither platform is objectively better. The honest conclusion of this whole article is the one you just read: fun points to gas, easy points to electric. Everything below is the evidence, so you can check that conclusion against your own priorities instead of taking my word for it.

One more thing before the comparisons begin: there is no wrong first rifle here, only a wrong reason for buying one. Buying gas because a forum told you real players use gas will leave you frustrated when winter arrives. Buying electric because a review told you gas is a waste of money will leave you bored if what you actually wanted was recoil. Read the sections that match the way you play, skim the rest, and trust the profile that makes you nod. The rest of this article is built to help you do exactly that, one honest trade-off at a time.

2. What "Fun" Actually Means on the Field

Before comparing hardware, it is worth defining the word this article keeps using. Fun in airsoft is not one thing. Players chase different feelings, and the platform that delivers your feeling is the right one for you, even if a spreadsheet says otherwise.

For some players, fun is immersion. They want the rifle to feel, sound, and behave like the real thing. They practice reloads at home. They like the ritual of seating a magazine, charging the bolt, and feeling the bolt slam forward. They will happily trade raw performance for the experience of running a rifle that demands their attention and rewards it. These players almost always end up with gas blowback rifles, and they tend to describe their AEG days as "playing a video game with a plastic controller" by comparison. That is unfair to AEGs, but it tells you exactly what they value.

For other players, fun is flow. They want to move, shoot, communicate, and stay in the action without breaking rhythm to fiddle with equipment. A malfunction is not a charming quirk to them. It is a ruined push, a lost objective, a walk back to respawn. These players love AEGs because the rifle disappears into the background and the game takes over. The best compliment an AEG can earn is that you forgot you were carrying it.

A third group loves the workshop as much as the field. For them, fun includes taking things apart, understanding how they work, and making them better. Both platforms serve this group, but in different ways, and the maintenance section later in this article goes into detail. The short version: gas rifles reward hands-on owners with a simple, satisfying mechanism, while AEGs reward tinkerers with a deep upgrade ecosystem of gears, motors, and electronic trigger units.

There is also a fourth kind of fun that players rarely admit to, and it is worth naming: the fun of looking the part. A gas rifle with a working bolt catch, realistic weight, and authentic manual of arms simply looks and feels more convincing in photos, in MilSim events, and in training scenarios. This is not vanity. Airsoft is a hobby built partly on immersion, and equipment that behaves like the real thing deepens the experience for everyone around you, not just for you. AEGs can look identical from the outside, and many do, but the moment you handle one, the illusion thins. If the look and feel of the real thing matters to your enjoyment, that is a legitimate reason to choose gas, and you do not need to apologize for it.

Notice that none of these three definitions mentions accuracy charts or muzzle velocity tables. On a calm day with good BBs and a properly set hop-up, both platforms shoot straight enough to hit what you are aiming at. The difference that matters is not on paper. It is in your hands, your ears, and your shoulders, and it is the subject of the next few sections.

3. Recoil, Sound, and the Feeling of the Shot

Pick up a gas blowback rifle and fire one round. The bolt carrier snaps back, the rifle pushes into your shoulder, and the whole gun rocks slightly in your hands. Fire ten rounds in quick succession and the sensation is rhythmic, physical, and genuinely exciting. Players describe it as addictive, and they are not exaggerating. The recoil impulse is the single biggest reason people switch to gas, and it is the thing they miss most when they go back to electric.

An AEG, by contrast, has almost no felt recoil. The gearbox cycles inside the receiver, the piston slams forward, and the rifle vibrates faintly. High-end AEGs with recoil shock systems add a moving weight to simulate kick, and some of them do a respectable job, but it is a simulation. Your shoulder knows the difference the way your hand knows the difference between a real handshake and a vibration motor. The simulation is pleasant. The real thing is thrilling.

Sound matters more than most buyers expect. A gas rifle cracks sharply, with a metallic clack from the bolt that carries across the field. An AEG whirs and clacks with a higher-pitched, more mechanical sound. Neither is loud enough to matter tactically at range, but the sound shapes your perception of power. Ask any GBBR owner what they love most, and the answer is usually two words: the kick, followed immediately by the sound.

There is a practical side to this too. Recoil changes how you shoot. A gas rifle rewards a firm stance and a steady grip, because the gun moves under you. Some players find this makes them better shooters over time, since they learn to manage the rifle instead of just pointing it. Others find it tiring over a long day. Both reactions are honest. If you have never shot a gas rifle, find a friend who owns one and ask to run a magazine through it before you buy. Ten rounds will teach you more than ten articles, including this one.

The bolt lock-back deserves its own mention, because it is the detail gas owners bring up most often and AEG owners rarely think about. On a gas rifle, the last round locks the bolt open, and the rifle tells you it is empty in a way you can feel and hear. You never have to wonder whether you are dry-firing an empty magazine, because the rifle announces it. Many AEGs now offer a similar empty-magazine cutoff with the right magazines, but it is an add-on feature there, while on a gas rifle it is simply how the mechanism works. Small details like this add up over hundreds of reloads into a feeling of operating a machine rather than pressing a button.

4. Trigger Response: Instant vs. Almost Instant

Trigger response is the delay between your finger pressing the trigger and the BB leaving the barrel. On a gas rifle, it is effectively instant. The trigger releases a valve, gas rushes through, and the BB is gone. There is no motor to spin up, no gears to turn, no piston to travel. The rifle answers your finger the way a light switch answers your hand.

On a standard AEG, there is a small but real delay. The motor spins, the gears turn, the piston compresses the spring and releases it. At rest, this takes a fraction of a second, and most players barely notice it in semi-automatic fire. But players who have spent time on gas rifles notice it immediately when they switch back. The AEG feels like it is thinking about your request before fulfilling it. It is a tiny hesitation, and in a fast close-quarters exchange, tiny hesitations are where duels are won and lost.

Modern AEGs have closed much of this gap. Electronic trigger units, high-torque motors, and precocking features can make a tuned AEG feel nearly as crisp as a gas rifle. A well-built AEG with a programmable trigger unit is a genuinely impressive thing. But it takes money and tuning to get there, while a stock gas rifle gives you instant response out of the box. If trigger feel is your top priority and you do not want to open a gearbox, gas wins without a contest.

There is one caveat, and it matters in cold weather. Gas pressure drops as temperature falls, and a cold gas rifle can become sluggish, with slower cycling and weaker shots. An AEG does not care about the cold nearly as much. So the trigger-response crown belongs to gas in mild weather and to electric in winter, which brings us neatly to the weather section later. For most players in most climates, though, the gas trigger is the one that makes them smile.

Trigger feel also affects accuracy in a subtle way that new players miss. A crisp, instant trigger lets you break the shot exactly when your sights are on target, without anticipating a delay. A mushy or delayed trigger encourages you to snatch at the shot or to hold too long and wobble off target. This is why experienced shooters obsess over trigger units and why gas owners talk about their triggers the way guitar players talk about action height. It is a small thing until you have felt the difference, and then it is the thing you check first on any new rifle.

5. Full Auto and the Joy of Dumping a Magazine

Nothing divides the two camps faster than full auto. An AEG on full auto is a hose. With a high-capacity magazine holding hundreds of rounds, you can hold the trigger down and keep a lane suppressed for as long as your battery lasts. It is enormously effective in a firefight, and it is also, after the first few times, a little boring. The rifle does the work. You point it.

A gas rifle on full auto is a different animal entirely. The bolt hammers back and forth, the rifle bucks hard, gas consumption spikes, and the magazine empties in a couple of seconds. It is spectacular, and it is expensive in gas and BBs, and it is over almost before it starts. Players who love gas rifles will tell you that one full-auto burst from a GBBR is worth a hundred rounds from an AEG. Players who love AEGs will tell you that a GBBR owner just spent thirty dollars of gas to accomplish what a high-cap magazine does for free. Both are right, and the disagreement is really about what you think a trigger is for.

The magazine capacity gap is the practical version of this argument. A standard gas rifle magazine holds around 30 to 40 rounds, roughly matching a real magazine. An AEG high-capacity magazine holds 300 or more. On a game day, the AEG player reloads rarely and carries little. The gas player reloads constantly and carries a chest rig full of heavy steel magazines. Some players find this annoying. Others find it is the whole point: limited ammunition forces you to aim, to pick shots, to move with purpose instead of spraying. MilSim players in particular tend to love this constraint, because it makes the game feel like a simulation instead of an arcade.

If your idea of fun includes sustained fire, suppression, and never worrying about ammunition, the AEG is your platform and it is not close. If your idea of fun includes making every shot count, feeling the rifle work, and reloading like you mean it, gas will spoil you for anything else.

Suppression deserves a fair hearing here, because it is a real tactic and not just spraying. A team that can keep an enemy's head down while a teammate moves wins games, and sustained fire is how you do it. The AEG is built for this job: high capacity, consistent output, no cooldown, no gas bill for every burst. The gas player trying to suppress will run dry in seconds and spend the next minute reloading while their teammate is exposed. If you play a support or suppression role, even part of the time, the AEG is not just more convenient. It is the correct tool for the job, and no amount of recoil nostalgia changes that.

6. Reloads: Real-Cap Ritual vs. High-Cap Convenience

Watch a gas rifle player reload. The bolt locks back on empty. They drop the magazine, seat a fresh one with a solid smack, thumb the bolt catch, and the bolt slams home. The whole sequence is tactile, audible, and satisfying. It is also mandatory: the rifle will not fire until you do it. New players fumble it. Experienced players do it without looking, and they look cool doing it.

Watch an AEG player reload. They swap a magazine, sometimes wind a wheel on the side of a high-cap, and keep shooting. Many AEGs do not lock the bolt on empty, so the player has to count rounds or notice the dry-fire sound. It works fine, but nobody describes it as satisfying. It is a pit stop, not a ritual.

This difference shapes how the two platforms feel over a full day. Gas players reload often, and each reload is a small moment of engagement with the rifle. Some players love this rhythm. It breaks up the game into bursts of action punctuated by deliberate, physical reloads, and it keeps them present. Other players hate it, because every reload is a moment of vulnerability, and in a fast game, vulnerability gets you shot. There is no wrong answer, only a preference you should discover before you spend several hundred dollars.

Weight is the hidden cost of the gas reload ritual. A loaded gas magazine is heavy, close to the weight of a real loaded magazine, and a full loadout of six to eight magazines adds real kilograms to your kit. AEG mid-capacity magazines are light by comparison, and a single high-cap can replace a whole pouch of them. If you play long games, walk large fields, or have a bad back, this matters more than any spec sheet suggests. Try carrying a loaded gas rig for an hour before you commit, or at least be honest with yourself about how much weight you enjoy.

Reload speed is worth a separate thought, because it is trainable and it changes the math. A new gas player fumbles reloads and feels slow. A practiced gas player reloads in two seconds without looking, and the vulnerability window shrinks to almost nothing. The players who complain loudest about gas reloads are usually the ones who never practiced them. Spend ten minutes a week at home running dry reloads, and within a month the ritual stops being a liability and starts being a skill you are proud of. The AEG player never gets that particular satisfaction, because there is nothing to master.

7. Maintenance: A Hobby in Itself, or a Chore to Avoid

Here is where the two platforms reveal their personalities most clearly. A gas rifle is mechanically simple. It has a bolt, a valve, seals, and a magazine that is really a gas reservoir with a feed lip. Maintenance means cleaning the barrel, wiping the bolt, and putting a drop of silicone oil on the seals now and then. The whole process takes minutes, it is easy to learn, and many owners genuinely enjoy it. Taking a gas rifle apart feels like field-stripping a real rifle, because the design is close to one.

The catch is that gas rifles punish neglect. Seals dry out. Valves leak. A magazine left empty for months can lose its seal, and a leaking magazine is a paperweight until you replace an O-ring. None of this is hard to fix, but it demands a habit: store magazines with a little gas in them, oil the seals periodically, and do not ignore a slow leak. Players who enjoy this kind of ownership find it meditative. Players who want to throw the rifle in a closet between game days will come back to a surprise.

An AEG is the opposite bargain. Day to day, it asks almost nothing of you. Charge the battery, store it at a safe charge level, and shoot. But when something does go wrong inside a gearbox, the repair is a project. Gears, shimming, air seals, and motor height are a small engineering discipline of their own. Many players love this too, and the AEG upgrade scene is enormous, with parts for every budget. But the first time you open a gearbox, you will understand why airsoft technicians exist, and why they charge what they charge.

The maintenance verdict mirrors the fun verdict. Gas maintenance is frequent, simple, and satisfying. Electric maintenance is rare, complex, and occasionally expensive. If you like tinkering with your hands and learning a mechanism, gas will make you happy. If you want to play and forget, electric will make you happier.

A simple gas care routine covers nearly everything: after each game day, wipe down the bolt and receiver, run a cleaning rod through the barrel, and put a drop of silicone oil on the magazine seals and valve O-rings. Store magazines with a small amount of gas left inside, which keeps the seals seated and pressurized. Once every few months, inspect the feed lips and seals for wear and replace anything that looks tired. That is the whole program, and it takes less time than cleaning a pair of boots. The players who struggle with gas rifles are almost always the ones who skip this routine for a season and then wonder why a magazine hisses when they fill it.

8. Winter, Heat, and Weather: Where Each Platform Shines

Weather is the gas rifle's great weakness, and any honest article has to say so plainly. Gas pressure depends on temperature. On a warm day, a gas rifle runs beautifully. On a cold day, pressure drops, shots get weaker, cycling slows, and in freezing conditions the rifle may barely function at all. Rapid fire makes it worse: each shot cools the magazine further, a phenomenon players call cooldown, and a cold magazine delivers weaker and weaker shots until it is warmed up again.

This is not a minor footnote. If you play in a cold climate, or you play winter games, a gas rifle can go from star player to benchwarmer between October and March. There are workarounds: CO2 magazines handle cold better than green gas, keeping magazines warm inside your jacket helps, and some players run gas rifles only in summer. But every workaround is a chore, and the AEG player next to you is not doing any of them.

The AEG is the all-weather platform. Batteries lose a little capacity in extreme cold, but a LiPo in a pouch will run a full game day in conditions that shut a gas rifle down. Rain, dust, heat, and humidity barely change AEG performance. If you play year-round, in all weather, and you only want one rifle, this section alone may settle the decision for you.

Heat flips the story slightly. On a very hot day, gas pressure rises, and a gas rifle can shoot hotter than your field limit. Chronograph your rifle on hot days, and be aware that the same rifle can read differently at noon than it did at dawn. AEGs are steadier across temperature swings, which is one more reason fields and rental fleets overwhelmingly choose electric. The weather scoreboard reads: AEG wins winter, gas wins the feeling of a perfect summer afternoon, and if you can only pick one rifle for every season, the AEG is the safer bet.

Seasonal storage is the quiet companion to this section. A gas rifle going into winter storage deserves ten minutes of attention: clean the barrel, oil the seals, leave a little gas in each magazine, and store everything somewhere that does not freeze. An AEG going into storage needs its battery brought to a storage charge and kept somewhere cool and dry, which is a different kind of ten minutes. Neither is hard, but the gas routine is the one people forget, because the rifle looks fine sitting in the closet. Come spring, the AEG player charges a battery and plays, while the neglected gas player orders O-rings. Plan your off-season accordingly.

9. The Real Cost of Fun: A First-Year Honest Math

Fun has a price tag, and the two platforms price it differently. The rifle itself is the first difference. A decent entry-level AEG costs less than a decent gas rifle, and it usually arrives ready to play: battery, charger, and a high-capacity magazine in the box. A gas rifle costs more up front, and then it needs magazines, and gas magazines are expensive, often four to five times the price of an AEG magazine. A realistic gas loadout of six magazines can cost as much as a budget AEG on its own.

Running costs widen the gap further. An AEG runs on electricity and BBs. A battery charge costs pennies. A gas rifle runs on gas and BBs, and gas is a consumable you buy by the can. Over a year of regular play, the gas bill adds up to real money, and it is money the AEG player never spends. This is the quiet reason many players start with gas, love it, and quietly buy an AEG as their second rifle: the gas rifle is the weekend car, and the AEG is the daily driver.

First-year cost area	Gas blowback rifle	Electric rifle (AEG)
Rifle, ready to play	Higher; magazines sold separately	Lower; battery and magazine often included
Magazines for a game day	6 to 8 heavy steel magazines, pricey	1 high-cap or a few light mid-caps, cheap
Consumables per game day	Gas cans plus BBs	BBs plus pennies of electricity
Maintenance costs	Seals, O-rings, silicone oil; cheap parts	Rare but pricier when a gearbox needs work
Cold-weather reliability	Poor without CO2 magazines or warming tricks	Excellent in nearly all conditions

None of this means gas is a bad purchase. It means gas is a purchase you should make with open eyes. Players who love gas rifles do not regret the money, because they are paying for an experience they cannot get any other way. But if your budget is tight and you want the most game days per dollar, the AEG wins on economics, and it is not close. Buy the gas rifle when you can afford to love it properly, with enough magazines and gas to actually enjoy it, rather than stretching to buy the rifle and then resenting the cost of feeding it.

Resale value softens the gas premium a little. Well-kept gas rifles tend to hold their value on the used market, partly because the buyer pool understands what they are getting and partly because a clean, working GBBR with magazines is a ready-to-play package. AEGs depreciate faster, especially upgraded ones, because every buyer has to trust someone else's gearbox work. Neither platform is an investment, but if you buy gas, keep the box, keep the magazines in good shape, and keep a record of what you replaced, you will recover more of your money if you ever sell.

10. Two Player Profiles: Which One Are You?

After all the comparisons, the decision usually comes down to which of these two players sounds like you.

Profile A: The Experience Player

You play for the feeling. You love realism, you practice reloads, you enjoy maintaining your gear, and you would rather have ten unforgettable shots than three hundred forgettable ones. You play mostly in mild weather, or you are happy to keep a gas rifle as your fair-weather favorite. You do not mind carrying heavy magazines, and you think a rifle should demand something from its owner. If this is you, buy gas first. You will not be happy with an AEG, because every game will feel like something is missing, and you will end up buying the gas rifle anyway.

Profile B: The Game Player

You play to win, to move, to stay in the fight, and to have a rifle that never gives you an excuse. You play in all weather, you like long games, you do not want to think about seals or gas pressure, and you would rather spend your money on game days than on magazines. If this is you, buy electric first. You will have more fun on an AEG than you would on a gas rifle that keeps reminding you of its needs, and you can always add a gas rifle later as a second gun for special occasions.

Most players recognize themselves instantly in one of these two profiles, and the ones who do not are usually the ones who end up owning both. There is no shame in that. Airsoft is a hobby with room for a workhorse and a weekend toy, and many long-term players keep an AEG for winter and skirmish days and a gas rifle for MilSim events and sunny afternoons. The order matters more than the final collection: buy the one that matches your dominant profile first, and let the other one come later, when you know exactly what you are missing.

If you are still unsure, try this quick test. Answer honestly, not aspirationally. Do you enjoy cleaning and maintaining your gear, or do you consider it a chore? Do you play mostly in warm months, or all year? Does the idea of carrying eight heavy magazines sound fun or exhausting? Would you rather have thirty perfect shots or three hundred good ones? If your answers lean toward maintenance, warm weather, heavy kit, and perfect shots, you are Profile A. If they lean the other way, you are Profile B. Three or more answers on one side is a clear result. A split result means you are a both-rifles player, and the tiebreaker is simple: buy the cheaper one first, because the expensive one is easier to justify once you know you love the hobby.

11. The Hybrid Answer: Own Both, in the Right Order

The most common advice from veteran players is not to pick a side forever, but to pick a side first. Start with the platform that matches your profile, play it for a season, and pay attention to what you wish it did better. The AEG player who starts craving recoil will know it within a few months. The gas player who starts dreading winter will know it by the first frost. Your second rifle is the answer to a question your first rifle taught you to ask.

There is also a practical hybrid that works well for many players: an AEG as the primary rifle and a gas blowback pistol as the sidearm. This gives you the reliability of electric for the main fight and the gas experience in a smaller, cheaper package. Gas pistols are less expensive than gas rifles, their magazines are cheaper, and they deliver most of the recoil and realism that makes gas fun. It is a sensible way to taste gas without committing your whole loadout to it.

The reverse hybrid works too, and it is underrated: a gas rifle as your primary for fair-weather games, with a budget AEG kept as a backup in your kit bag. The backup costs little, weighs little, and saves your game day when a seal fails or the temperature drops mid-afternoon. Players who run this combination rarely talk about it, because it is not exciting, but they are the players who never leave a field early. Reliability does not have to be your primary rifle's job if your backup covers it.

For a deeper technical comparison of all three power systems, including CO2, see our companion guide: Gas vs CO2 vs Electric Airsoft: Which Power System Wins? It covers efficiency, operating costs, and cold-weather performance in more detail, and it pairs well with everything you just read here.

Whatever you choose, remember that the best rifle is the one you actually play with. A gas rifle gathering dust because you dread its maintenance is worse than an AEG you run every weekend. An AEG gathering dust because it bores you is worse than a gas rifle you take out every chance you get. Match the rifle to the player, not to the forum consensus, and you will make the right call.

One last practical note: whichever rifle you buy first makes an excellent loaner later. New players always need a rifle for their first game, and handing a friend your reliable AEG while you run your gas rifle is how many players recruit their regular squad. The second rifle is never wasted money in a hobby built on bringing friends, and the player who owns both is the player whose friends keep coming back.

12. Frequently Asked Questions

Is a gas blowback rifle good for a beginner?

It can be, but it is usually not the best first rifle. A beginner benefits from the forgiveness of an AEG: cheap magazines, no gas management, and reliable performance in any weather. A gas rifle is a great second rifle, once you know you love the hobby and you understand what you are signing up for. The exception is a beginner who is specifically drawn to realism and is happy to learn maintenance from day one.

Do gas rifles shoot harder than electric rifles?

Not necessarily. Muzzle velocity depends on the specific rifle, the gas or battery setup, and the BB weight. Field limits apply equally to both platforms, and both can be tuned to sit comfortably under them. Gas rifles often feel more powerful because of the recoil, but feeling and chronograph numbers are two different things.

Can I use a gas rifle in winter?

You can, with compromises. Green gas struggles in the cold, so winter gas players switch to CO2 magazines, keep magazines warm inside their jackets between games, and avoid long full-auto bursts that cool the magazine. If you play mostly in winter, an AEG is the more reliable choice.

Are gas magazines really that expensive?

Yes, compared to AEG magazines. A gas magazine is a pressurized vessel with valves and seals, not just a box with a spring, and it is priced accordingly. Budget for several magazines when you buy a gas rifle, because one magazine is not a loadout.

Will I regret buying an AEG if I really want gas?

Probably not, as long as you buy the AEG for the right reasons. An AEG is never a wasted purchase in this hobby: it becomes your reliable backup, your winter rifle, or your loaner for friends. Many players who start electric and move to gas keep their AEG and use it more than they expected.

So, gas or electric? If fun is the question, gas is the answer. If easy is the question, electric is the answer. And if you are still torn, that is your answer too: you are a both-rifles player, and you just need to decide which one comes first. Either way, we ship from California with the same care we put into this guide, and we are happy to help you pick. See you on the field.