Bownanza is located in Southeastern Illinois along the Ohio River Basin. Our managed farms are in Gallitin and Saline Counties. North American Whitetail Magazine named this region where the Wabash and Ohio Rivers meet, perhaps the best place on the continent to take a trophy buck (January 2007 Issue). Buckmasters Magazine calls it "Illinois' big secret."

A large percentage of Illinois is made up of corn and soybean fields. This abundance of high-quality forage growns bucks to enourmous proportions. We plant year-round food plots to attract deer and provide continuous nutrition between agricultural crops.

Our hunting grounds are located in a transition zone. Miles of crop fields yield to rolling hills mixed with hardwoods and river bottoms.

A 3 1/2-year-old buck typically weighs 250 pounds or more and scores somewhere around the 140 class. Bownanza wants to harvest only mature deer.

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