My name is John OReilly and I have recently purchased part of Illinois Land Company. As a partner in Timber Creek Land Company, I have worked with Illinois Land Company a lot in the past. I am excited about the direction the company is headed and I think I can help Illinois Land Company reach its lofty goals. Similar to Timber Creek over the last two years, we will focus here on media rich content so you ca ...

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 ...

I have no idea where these pics came from. A friend of mine emailed them to me and he doesnt know where they originated. This is a really weird sequence where coyotes surround and kill a mature whitetail deer. My guess is that the deer had some sort of bacterial infection which attracted the coyotes and the deer was almost dead by the time the coyotes surrounded him. Who knows. I will email Grant Woods and ...

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 ...

Again, we rarely have problems with trespassing. We got two pictures of a guy on a four wheeler and we don’t know who he is. If you have any ideas, please let us know. I always try to give people the benefit of the doubt, so hopefully he had a good reason to be back there, twice, without calling the landowner. I know most of you know my thoughts on trespassing…but, to me, a grown man knowingly trespassing r ...

Our good friend Tyler Rector of Fulton County has had a good start to the 2011 season. He arrowed this beauty which scored 164" as a nine pointer. Very solid deer. Gets the blood pumping a bit. [socialpop /] Share this with your friends! ...

I have a few good friends of mine that hunt with me at Grand Valley. They hunt a portion of the property. They just passed along a few pics they got from their trail cameras. Looks like the 2011 season is lining up to be a good one. This guy especially looks like a good one to put on the wall. CommentsPowered by Facebook Comments ...

Hey Guys, Here are a few trail cam pics from Ryan Pudik at Illinois Land Company. A few pretty cool deer… CommentsPowered by Facebook Comments ...

Opening weekend for the guys at Dominant Predator. After getting the beat on Homse a few days before season, we where excited about going after him. We where able to sit the blind we set up for him two times but he never showed his face. It was a slow opening weekend for us but even so it is hard to beat being out in God's creation with a bow in hand. ...

Check out this guy Mike got on camera at Otter Creek. I am uploading the rest of the trail camera pics now and will have them up soon.  Too bad its a little blurry. We are hoping to see him again. -Carol CommentsPowered by Facebook Comments ...