RE: help
My vote goes for funnels. I believe they are a lot easier to decipher than the bedding area/food source for a beginner. An easy way to find a good funnel is to walk any fenceline where the deer are travelling. As you go, look for hair on the fence. A good, well-used fence crossing will have balls of fur on the barbs. However, now that i think about it, this assumes that you have barb wire fences where you are hunting.
There are a couple of downfalls to this type of hunting. for one, you have to guess wether this will be a morning or evening spot unless you find the food source in relation to the funnel. also, you could run into a frustrating experience as a bruiser walks right down the other side of the fence...