Hirshey's Hunting Season 2016

[hirshey]

The fella

[hirshey]

Trying to make some magic happen

[hirshey]

...Idaho will have to wait for the morning. I'm getting a little sleepy, and I want to do it justice; it was a great, albeit tough year.

I'll leave you with a few photos of the weekend bear photo safari Derrick and I enjoyed, and a few photos of my mom and I playing in the Pasayten wilderness for the high hunt season. Bear stalking was fruitful, deer spotting was fruitful, deer stalking was not. 

[hirshey]

Bear 2

[hirshey]

Big ol' blonde-backed boar

[hirshey]

mother-daughter team

[hollymaster]

Tag

[RB]

Awesome! 

[MADMAX]

Your fella is an extremely lucky man
I hope he knows that
and great pics and hunts

[fishngamereaper]

So far so good. Looking forward to the rest

[Magnum_Willys]

Everyone's favorite hunt stories - thank you for sharing !

[Boss .300 winmag]

Great pics, and awesome right up as always. 

[hirshey]

As you can imagine, the work week was a difficult one to navigate; final hunting preparations were needed, food menus were being tweaked, and gear lists were refined, but I managed to be a productive employee and a good hunt lead. This season was to be pretty special for me; the members of Team Awesome were as follows:

Kari, long-time vet of this hunt and party lead. Hunting obsessed, wildland firefighter by trade, and also known as Hirshey.

Evie, who sometimes introduces herself as “Hirshey’s mom”. A force to be reckoned with, and legs that take her up anything exponentially faster than mine, and an avid hunter for 30 years. She had assisted in meal prep and gear refurb and looked at photos for years, and I finally talked her into committing to a license for this season.

Derrick, who had not finished his hunter’s education in time to participate in this hunt and was lovingly assigned the role of camp Sherpa. A wildland firefighter by trade, and a heavy hauling, shed-seeking adventure nut, he was pretty excited to make this his first Idaho trip. Also filling the role of Kari’s fella. 

Jeff, a 3 year veteran of this trip and by all accounts my hunting partner for life. Known as the gadget guy, he always has some of the neatest and newest technology to test on some of these trips… some are flops, and some are fantastic. A marine mammal biologist by trade, it is good to get him back on the terrestrial critters once in a while so he doesn’t grow gills.

Storm, a second year returner of this trip and a master craftsman. He builds log homes that at one point were ranked third in the world. Venturing from Texas to Colorado and back to his home in Oregon, Storm is no stranger to life on the road, but this trip is for pleasure, not business. He constructed his own bullets from scratch for this trip, and carefully tested the ballistics to ensure when he pulled the trigger it’d be lights out.

These are all people I consider to be some of my closest allies and part of my chosen family, and I could not have been more thrilled to have all of them along for this trip into one of my favorite places on the globe.

[hirshey]

Kari

[hirshey]

Evie