What you need to know is that the rifle is the most important part of the equation. You go out and buy a cheap rifle in the caliber that you desire and most times you are going to be very disappointed.

Most people looks at price and not at quality.
I want it and I want it right now.
I don't want to spend any money and the bullet is the only thing I am concerned about - not the scope or the action or the condition of the barrel.

Then when you try to explain to them that these new cheap rifles are junk, they get offended - because they don't know any better.

Do you want a good rifle for hunting deer?

The answer should be for you to buy a used gun, not a new gun.
About 1/4th of all the rifles used in Pennsylvania to harvest deer is a Remington Game Master 760!
Remington made so many of them that there is always a few of them on the gun rack of most any used gun store.
The average price of a used Game Master is usually around $450 with a scope. Cheap one all beat up - $350, one in really nice shape with a very expensive scope - $500!

The most dependable, most accurate rifle out of the box that you could buy.

You don't build a house and then decide to build a foundation.
You build the foundation first!

Most young kids doesn't want dad's old Gamemaster and so they take it to the gun shop and trade it in on a new rifle, thinking that the new rifle is going to be better then what they had. Only to find out that the new rifle does not shoot as well as advertised and the only thing dad's rifle needed was a better scope and mounts.

I was in a gun shop yesterday that had 10 of them on the rack and 4 of them still had the original 3x9x40 Bushnell scope and mounts that it had the day Grice Gun Shop sold it to them 32 years ago.

That is a real testament to both the gun and the scope.
They outlived the owners and are still in service today!