RE: Deer/ Bear rifle
Go to a pawn shop. I got a .30-06 savage 110 with a scope for $200.00 out the door. Just make sure you look it over real good. Also I seen a Mossberg 12 ga with 2 barrels, one slug barrel rifled with the cantilever scope mount, and one with 2 chokes full and modified. That would greatly increase the versatility of your hunting ability if you go with something like that. You could hunt deer and birds with the same gun. And it was only $300.00 new.