Congrats to our friend Kyle Eklund. Kyle and his father took these birds last week on a lease near Grand Valley North. Kyle's bird was a great mature gobler with a double beard. One of the two beards had been cut off at some point. Congrats again, Kyle has been a turkey and deer killing machine over in Knox County. ...

Congrats to Chef Todd who took down a great turkey early this week at Grand Valley North (just sold the south side...more on that later). That place is just crawling with Turkey. He took this one in the middle of 30 mph winds on Monday. Job well done. A few more of my friends are heading out there this year so hopefully we drop a few more. Check out the pics and be sure to "like" below to help us out! ...

I was showing Grand Valley last week with Aaron Miliken of Whitetail Properties and we stumbled upon something that you hate to see...a nice young buck with great potential. It happens so there is nothing you can do about it but it is still disheartening. Aaron also stumbled upon my first shed of the year at Grand Valley. It was actually a little embarrassing. He found it about ten seconds into our tour. It ...

Congrats to Darron Birkel. On the last night of the second shotgun season, Darron took this impressive 8 pointer with his black powder. This is Darron’s second great deer of the season (click here to see his first). There is something really cool about mature eight pointers. I don’t think Darron or I had any trail cam pics of this guy. Be sure to hit the google +1 button if you like this content…it helps us ...

Earlier in the year, I was hunting a deer that was clearly not very active. I saw him once at about fifty yard. (click here to see footage…I also put it below this article). I hunted him about ten times during the first three weeks in November. I gave up as soon as the temperatures dropped into the thirties. I know what you are thinking, and dont worry, I dont cosider myself a ‘real’ hunter either. But I wa ...

Here is some footage I got back in November of a nice young eight pointer. He must be the dumbest deer on the farm. For about 6 or 7 hunts, it wasn’t weird for me to see this deer three or four times per hunt. He was everywhere. I hope he doesn’t smarten up because he will be a great deer next year. If the video doesnt load…go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehc-gxkK-eo Blog by Timber Creek Land Co – Illi ...

Our friends at Land Guys.net just gave us a heads up on an amazing deer.  I know that theoretically, the Land Guys are our competitors, but they are some of our best friends inthe industry.  Timber Creek, Illinois Land Company, and Land Guys have worked in the past together and we have a new exciting partnership to announce soon about some new parcels that will be available.  We will announce it soon so sta ...

Here are some pics of a deer that we found last week. I have checked with all of the neighbors and we can not figure out who shot it. If anyone has any ideas, please let us know. It is a shame to let such a cool deer go to waste. ...

Our neighbor and good friend at Grand Valley, Louie Spinello, killed a once in a lifetime buck last week. Area residents had been eying this deer since August. It turns out the three of us had trail cam pics of this Giant. Click here to see ours. Congrats to Louie Spinello. One of the coolest deer that I have ever seen. What a bruiser. I am guessing that it will go around 190″ and that is with two broken ti ...

I have already written about my hatred of these M100 Moultrie Trail Cameras. The night pics that involve any movement end up blurry messes. Recently I switched to the video recording mode…which sounds pretty cool. Watch this clip to see how well it goes… Additionally, the cameras are set up to take a pic and record video…which is a cool thought. Except for the fact that it takes a pic forst and then record ...