10/22 or 597

No love for the 1022 here. Go for a 597 or even a 795.. unless you want 20 lbs of gear hangin off the rifle. My 597 will take down clay birds at 100 yards nearly every time
 
There are way more aftermarket gizmos for the 10/22. The 597 is a great rifle and most of the bad reviews you will see were caused by the old mags that have all since been replaced.
 
I own both. Each has it's own characteristics and both are good buys. Both could use better sights. I'd suggest the Tech Sights. I'd vote for the Marlin 795 and with with money saved you can upgrade the iron sights.
 
I've shot lots of different 10/22s. I find they each have their own character! 50% (2/4) have had multiple jams. Two have never jammed, one stopped jamming after about 1000rds, one has never stopped jamming!
My Rem has never had issues with any ammo since day one ( except misfires with Rem Bucket of Cr$p stuff).
 
I have a 597, hated it at first, cleaned it and lovingly reassembled ant torqued the twin rods, jam-o-matic. I got mad, never clean it, now that I treat it like the dirty B#$ch it is it never fails, eats any ammo and I can hit clays at 100 yds with a bargoon scope. My buddy and I were shooting at the gravel pit yesterday, his Ruger and the Remington. They both work well.
Just my experience.
Rem is about half the price. the mag stinks
T
 
Cleaning the 597 isn't nearly as bad as the youtubers make it out to be. The spring is easily put back in just feed it on to the rod slowly. As another poster stated it doesn't like to be cleaned too much. Only ammo issues are firing shorts, the magazine can't hold them completely properly and you need to manually cycle the bolt
 
timandkimandshea said:
I have a 597, hated it at first, cleaned it and lovingly reassembled ant torqued the twin rods, jam-o-matic. I got mad, never clean it, now that I treat it like the dirty B#$ch it is it never fails, eats any ammo and I can hit clays at 100 yds with a bargoon scope. My buddy and I were shooting at the gravel pit yesterday, his Ruger and the Remington. They both work well.
Just my experience.
Rem is about half the price. the mag stinks
T
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Second here for the 597! I owned 2 Rugers and they are over rated by far. Overpriced as well.
My 597 was more reliable across different brands of ammo, way more accurate (the stock barrel is much thicker), the stock iron sights were way better than the Ruger and it was cheaper by almost $200 and came with a fackin' scope!!! Also it has a bolt hold open on empty mag right out of the box, no need to drill into your brand new rifle to modify it to do something it should have in the first place for "the best .22 ever".....

There were reported problems with the old magazines but they have long since phased them out and replaced them with sturdy thick aluminum 10 rounders that feed anything.

The only thing I'll give the Ruger over the 597 is that if you're into dressing your cheap rifles up in 15 pounds of retarded plastic s**t wrap then the Ruger has that corner covered.
After market for the 597 is limited. But it's a .22 you know, what's the point of adding all sorts of nonsense to it? It's fine just how it is.
That being said there is a wicked set of Tech Sights for the 597 that I put on mine and the thing is crazy fun and very accurate with them! It has a needle point tapered target front post on them.
 
I have never even handled the Remmy you are looking at so I can't offer a comparison.

I bought 10/22s for my grown sons two years ago at Christmas. One runs fine and one is a little fussy about ammo while it is new or almost new. Some of the fixtures on the new ones have been moulded out of a polymer of some kind but the basic action is still the same as the Ruger I bought 45 years ago.

I think the issue with me is that I have had such good luck with my little Ruger that I don't even consider anything else. I am gonna have to buy a Remington to see what the comparison is.
 
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