Relocating...again

Andrew L.

Andrew L.

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Austin and I, now with a wife on board, are on the move again in the Midwest. We are packing to leave next week for the Twin Cities of Minnesota to take a transfer position within the NWTF.


Illinois has been great to us but I sure wont miss the politics. I enjoyed as much as I could of the IL River Valley in the short time I was here, some really neat history. In the two years I was here I thoroughly began to enjoy the public draw system, my first year I cursed it. But this year I was able to enjoy mid-week hunts and never have the issue of someone being to close, an issue I could never seem to elude in Wisconsin. I think I will miss that way of doing things.
Although this year was plagued by ice Austin and I were able to hunt the 2nd most amount of days in our years together. I hope we can still find our way back down to IL each year to chase ducks. Thanks to everyone that helped along the way!


Time to learn a new and bigger river system. I am liking the reports I hear of good field goose hunting in MN. I miss that from my Wisconsin days. I also suppose I am going to need to purchase a rod and reel and an ice shanty now.




This picture sums up the IL season fairly well.
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Welcome to MN.......

Should you need any guides around the cities or want to ask about various places to live, please do not hesitate to give me a shout out. Glad to help if I can be of any. If you need a responsible Real Estate person and decide to live north of the twin cities, I can pass along a couple of names.

Mark W
 
Thanks Mark. I may hit you up for real estate folks. We started looking at houses in December but decided to rent a town home in Rosemount for 6 months to give ourselves some more time to look.
 
Andrew

Congrats. Hope its a good move for you all. They still aren't ducks but pretty cool birds anyway........


Brad
 
Thanks Brad. It is a good move and gets us closer to family back in Wisconsin. Actually spent a few years in southeast MN as a kid and still know some folks so I am anxious to get to work there. I like to think I do more for ducks on accident doing what we do than most people do on purpose ;)
 
Only downside from where you were is a lot of upper Midwesterners.... At least you left the FIBs behind!
 
I joke about MN quite a bit but it really is a great state for someone who loves the outdoors. Get outside of the Twin Cities and it is mostly good. They do talk a little funny when you get up nort der dontcha know. :)

Tim
 
I enjoyed my years there. Alexandria area has good goose hunting, as does Rochester. Look into taking the ice fishing train to Devils Lake for perch and Walleye.
 
Welcome to land of the long vowels. Politics here aren't much different only up here they call em DFLer's.
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Good Luck
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Welcome to land of the long vowels. Politics here aren't much different only up here they call em DFLer's.
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Good Luck
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Some people call them DFL'ers. Some of us have other names for them not to be spoken on a family friendly site....

Mark W
 
Congratulations.

I married a Minnesota girl. Somehow her entire family, with deep roots in Minnesota on both sides, ended up here in Maine. They all moved east at different times. They talk a little funny and like pickled herring too much, but are mostly nice folks.

They live here in heaven and still miss "home", so it must be an OK place. My father-in-law just can't get used to the fact that out here northerns and muskies are invasive trash fish, but we're working on his trout skills.
 
Ok somebody fill me in on the DFL acronym. I was amazed at how few people here knew what FIB meant.
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If you are from IL and you spend anytime in other states, you usually learn pretty quick what a FIB is.
 
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