Marlin 795.
I sold one to my neighbor for his 14 year old daughter to use. I never had any problems, and it was always spot on and ran all the ammo without complaining. But she took a shine to it.
He bought a Nikon 22 rimfire scope for it and I dialed it in. Then I was pissed I let it go. It shoots quarter size groups offhand at 25 yards all day, even with rookie shooters.
The Ruger 10/22 is the AR of 22 rifles. You can mod it to the heavens. But I don't care for the rotary mags.
I've had two Marlin 60's. I sold the squirrel stock model, and kept the stainless fancy target model they make. It shoots fine and all that, but- I prefer mag fed, and two, the comb on these model 60's is obviously made for kids. It jacks your face up so high an adult needs mile-high rings to get a scope up at eye level.
I use a Savage model 64 for a backdoor varmit gun. I'll never get another one of these. It never sighted worth a damn, I had to get totally different sights (iron) to even get close to poa. It shoots soup cans at 50 yards now, but I had to put too much effort to get it that way. Plus it doesn't lock back on last round. Oh, and the red dot under the safety fell out. Savage sent me a new one. It's just a red plastic ball you mash into the hole. Disappointed in this one.
My 15-22 is my favorite 22 rifle. It's a great trainer for the AR platform, works good with all the ammo (except thunderbolts, which S&W even says don't use) and with a cheap sightmark red dot it pops the x-ring all day.
I'm gonna get me another 795. With a hundred dollar scope it performs as well as rifles costing twice as much. If you would have told me a $250 package would do this well I would've called you a liar. But it does.