i' ve had a marlin model 60 , they' re great guns , function pretty smoothly , handle good , and are inexpensive ,

i' ve never owned a 10/22 but i' ve heard only good things about them

i' ve never owned a model 597 either but have never heard anything good about them

but i have heard about another remington semi-auto 22 called the model 552 speedmaster , it' s similar to the marlin in looks ( sort of ) and i' ve heard good things about it , it' s also been in the remington line for a decent while so it' s time proven