For the limited hunting you do, a Remington 870 12 gauge with the standard barrel for birds and a slug barrel for deer would be all you need (as indymanjoe said).
A rifle is not needed to hunt deer if you're patient enough to let the deer come to you (range is an issue with a shotgun). I hunted for years in an area in Wisconsin (western bluff area on the Mississippi River) that was shotgun only, so I had to use my 870. I got at least one deer every year and got my trophy deer (13 pointer with triple brow tines) with that 870. Range was between 25 and 80 yards for all my deer. Most of them were down with 1 shot.
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