Lesser options are a cheap 22 or a Security-380 because Sportsmans is selling them for just over 300 bucks and 15 rounds of 380 auto on tap seems too fun
Those Rossi gallery-gun pump .22s are a great deal; pass on the polymer stock & go for the wood, but you can still pick up spare polymer furniture from Rossi. They're marked as .22lr only, but know for fact they'll take shorts (CBs or super), rat shot, or any combination thereof.
Even though it's one of the cheapest pump .22s on the market (if not the only one), they seem to be of a better quality than most of Rossi's catalog; or at least better than Remington towards the end.
The only thing I ran into was none of the fasteners/screws were torqued down, with the two on the pump forearm were barely finger-tight. I noticed some deflection in the stock between wrist & receiver, all easily fixed with a drop of loctite & tightening. After that it became a laser, even with subsonic shorts beyond 50ft.
Speaking of... the big buckhorn sight with big brass bead on the front post is a nice touch, especially with my horrible eyes.
Since being unboxed & tightened up, it's been oiled exactly once, fired well over 2000rds of various types, and still never fails to feed, fire, extract or eject; becoming sort of a running experiment to see how long it'll go without. The only thing I've done is snake the bore every 1000rds.
My one gripe is the pump forend is just like a large grooved dowel; square at the ends, instead of like the classic Winchester corncob. I'm just not confident enough in my carpentry skills to "fix" it, so I'll probably just look for a replacement that might fit.