I'll post my question first, and then give a little background . . . What's the good and the bad of the model 622 (and 422) that was produced for about 10 years? What I would love to find is an in-depth review of this pistol.

I bought a new 622 in 1989 (pictured here) . . .





After shooting it quite a bit for a year or so, I got busy with college, then moving from one town to the next, then getting married, etc. Essentially I cleaned the pistol really well about 1992 and put it up for about 15 years. I did have the original box as well until our house flooded one year, ruining the S&W box and a lot of other things too.

Now that I'm back living in the country and can shoot whenever I wish, I've owned and shot and studied mostly Ruger and Browning .22 pistols. Lately, though, the S&W 622 has been calling to me again. It's tugging at my heart somehow.

To some of you who know S&W pistols far better than I, can you outline the good and the bad, advantages and disadvantages of the 622/422 line? Many thanks.