ORIGINAL: James B
I would pick the Ruger but I must admit that I have almost no expierience with any of the others. I have a 10/22, a couple Little Favorites and an old Remington clip fed LH bolt action 22 that I have had for 30 years. BTW I just had a local Smith find me a new stock for the Remington. The guy who had it before me cut part of the forend off and insalled a bolt to hold onto with a hook hand. I have not seen it since he got it back.
Ruger 10/22s are great guns. They are like Honda Civics... if you don't like something on it.. there is a part to replace and totally customize it avavilable cheap. They shoot fairly well too.. espeically once you replace the factory barrel.
I have had, for MANY years a Ruger 77/22. It never really shot all that great.... with its prefered target ammo you could get 5 shots under a silver dollar at 50 yards. Good enough to kill a squirrel, but man .22s are supposed to be deadly. I put a Volquartsen barrel on, channeled out the stock to float the barrel, bedded the action and had it parkerized to match the look of the barrel better.... it will shoot a whole box of 50 rounds of just about anything through a single hole not much larger than a pencil eraser at 50 yards now. I swear... just something about the barrels on Rugers it seems....