Airgun Home | Shooting Diary | My Airguns | Airgun Safety | Slavia 622 Restoration I guess it started a long time ago, when I got a little beater air rifle from a garage sale when I was about 12 or so. Admittedly, I didn't treat it so well (I dry-fired it countless times, put little rocks in the barrel, and other stuff), but I did have fun shooting it. In time, I kind of forgot about it. Much later, around 2001, I got interested again, and bought myself a Crosman 2104GT. Unfortunately, I lived in an apartment at the time, and ended up selling it off because I couldn't find any decent place to shoot it. Now that I live in a house with a basement, and having discovered that basement ranges can be perfectly safe if set up properly, I decided to give it another go. Having done it before, I knew that every time I had previously tried my hand at target shooting, I'd really enjoyed it. So, with Christmas appropriately timed to my renewed interest, and by the grace of my wonderful parents, I became the proud owner of a CZ Slavia 631. In the process of hunting down which rifle I wanted, I consulted many people on various airgun message boards. The recommendation of the 631 was loud and clear, and I decided to go with the advice of these experienced folks. But at the same time, it occurred to me that the old "beater" I'd had as a kid had something scribed onto the receiver, and I recalled it saying "Slavia". So I checked it out, and found out that the old rifle I'd had was, in fact, a Slavia 622. It was produced in the Czech Republic only between 1958 and 1965, and was (to my knowledge) the only .22 calibre airgun CZ ever manufactured. I immediately decided that this rifle was well worth restoring. Hopefully, I'll have the pictures to show soon of the eventual results of my restoration efforts.