Patrick Durkin: Hot tip from the grave doesn’t mesh with actual hunting trip to Idaho’s Panhandle

A death-bed confession of sorts inspired Logan Hyrkas to organize a hunt for mountain deer in Idaho’s Panhandle during the first half of November.
The hot tip originated something like this: Hyrkas, 31, chatted up a customer in August 2016 while working at a North Dakota car dealership. Hyrkas grew up in the small town of Calumet, in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, but moved to the West because he loves hunting mule deer. As Hyrkas and the customer swapped deer hunting stories that August day, the man stunned him by sharing the GPS coordinates for his favorite hunting site in Idaho’s Panhandle.