Help with buying a rifle.

[SCUMFROG]

What would be a good first rifle for me? I'm going to start deer hunting with my dad next year and don't have a rifle. I just don't know that much about buying a gun like this.

[DrKen]

Lots of good advice here, Can speak from experience that the savages are a lot of gun for the money. One of the most accurate rifles in production. Better than a lot of more expensive ones. As far a caliber, most any will do. It is far more important to put the bullet where you want it than the size for whitetails. That said, if you are only going to get one rifle, the 06 is a very good bet. Good for most anything on the continent and ammo is relativly inexpensive and in a wide variety of bullet types and weights. Whatever you get, shoot it a lot before the season. Get used to it and then put the bullet where it counts. Another option, is to also get a similar setup on a .22 and practice with that.