How do I hunt a situation where the deer bed on ridges and feed low in the valleys?
Jim from NC asks: Dear Bill, I currently reside in NC and have recently been fortunate enough to travel to both Ohio and Illinois to bowhunt whitetails. I only hunt public land, which increases the challenge a bit. In NC, we have rolling terrain much like the two mentioned states with ridges and ravines that slope into creek drainages. Sometimes there will be a place where two or more ridges from opposite directions empty into a creek floodplain/flat area. Usually, those places have a ton of deer sign and look like a “hub” for bucks to transition from one ridge to the other. Here in NC, those areas have NEVER worked for me due to problems with wind, thermals, etc., so I have steered clear of those types of areas in the Midwest so far. I am planning a late-season hunt to Illinois and feel like I’ve pin-pointed a perfect bed-to-food evening route for the bucks, which passes from the top of one ridge covered in grown up old fields (Suspected bedding area) several hundred yards down Winke
