#434 Hunting Whitetails – Blake Alma

October 11, 2017

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While it can never be too late to start pursuing your dreams, it is also true that it can never be too early as well. The host of The Outdoor Experience, Blake Alma, shares how he worked himself from trapping small game, all the way to hunting whitetails. As passionate as he is about hunting, Blake talks about his insights about the ongoing dispute between hunters and vegans, as well as survival in the hunting industry. Though making it big in the industry is difficult, Blake made it at a very young age, and he’s vocal about how he did it to encourage his generation to take a step forward. He openly discusses the benefits of hunting, not just on a recreational point of view, but its main foundation, survival.

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Hunting Whitetails – Blake Alma

I’m pleased and a privileged to have Blake Alma join us. Blake Alma started out in the outdoor media world with a blog called The Art of an Outdoorsman. From there, he went directly to a radio show called The Outdoorsman’s Art Radio Show. He was asked by the Survivalist Daily to write some articles. He was invited to the Hunt Channel to do some interviews. How has he done all this? He’s going to tell you. There’s no excuse with Blake Alma.

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I’m with Blake Alma and Blake’s been on the show before. Blake’s got some stuff going on. Blake Alma is the TV and radio host for Outdoor Experience. Blake, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me. How are you doing?

I’m doing great and I’m getting all geared up. I’ll be heading up to the mountains for about eight days of elk hunting, the last eight days of the season and hopefully, it’ll get a little cooler. It’s been warm up there. We got fires throughout the West, so the air quality sucks and you can’t see far. You cannot see some places across the Basin Lake at my house. Pikes Peak is fifteen miles away and all weekend we could not see it at all. It was covered up with smoke. That’s how I’m doing but the podcast is rocking and rolling, we’re having some fun, we got people like you on the show. Life is good, how about you?

It’s been good. Since the last time we talked, I’ve been blessed with a new TV show on the Hunt Channel. It’s an outdoor-based talk show. I have a guest on the show. I had Michael Waddell on the show and I had Ron Schara as well. I’ve had Nick Mundt and Jana Waller. I’ve had Karin and Easton Holder with Raised Hunting. I’ve had Reed Robertson with Duck Dynasty. I’ve had Daniel Lee Martin with Brotherhood Outdoors. I have to say he’s probably my all-time favorite guest. We’ve had all kinds of different guests, so it’s been awesome. I’ll be honest with you though, I like radio better than I like TV. Doing your podcast, doing a radio show, it’s a lot more enjoyable to me. That’s the newest thing that’s been going on. We started a new blog called The Conservative Sportsman, it talks about some of the political stuff in the outdoor world and that’s been doing well. I’ve been talking to Wide Open Spaces, so it looks like I’ll probably be writing articles for them. I’m looking forward to doing that.

Michael Waddell, how the heck did you get him on your show? How did that come around?

I’ve shot him an email and he replied in a minute or two and said, “I’d love to. Give me some time, give me the number to call in, I’d be more than happy to come on the show.” I just emailed him, he wrote back immediately and then we started talking about sports so we had him on the show. He’s an awesome guy. He’s exactly the way he is in person than he is on TV, and he’s an awesome guy talking to. I’m saying this, there are a lot of outdoor people in the world, outdoor personalities and he’s one humble guy. He was an awesome guest. I loved having him on the show.

That show airs on the Hunt Channel, is that correct?

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Yes. I had Michael Waddell on that show and I had Ron Schara with Minnesota Bound. He’s hosted all kinds of different shows. He has a show on the History Channel as well, he’s an awesome guy as well, and we had him on the show. He’s been around for a long time and he’s one of the pioneers of outdoor television.

This is audio not video, is that correct?

It’s a video. They can call in like how we’re doing. We’re on Skype doing video chat. Before I had to call him via phone and we’ll record that. They’re filming me talking to them and then as we talk, we’d put effects on there, then we’ll post pictures of them like, “On the line with Reed Robertson,” we’ll have a picture of him. Also, we’ll play videos while we’re talking of them going out hunting, whether they’re shooting a big buck or big elk, we have video footage of them doing something outdoors. If it’s a video chat, we’ll take the video and we’ll play that too. It’s like a talk show. I would like to compare it to SportsCenter. It’s the best comparison I can compare. It’s like the outdoor SportsCenter. It’s an outdoor-based talk show.

I would have to tune in and listen to it, watch or however somebody can do that. You got video, you got the talk going through, then you get these screenshots of who they are, then you get some video of them hunting and stuff, that’s a neat format.

It’s different from other outdoor TV shows, rather than going in the woods shooting a big buck. I’ll announce this, I haven’t told too many people but Woods and Water Addiction, a YouTube channel, and I teamed up with them. We’re going to start airing some actual outdoor footage of us going outdoors doing something. I’ll be filming with them and we’ll be doing actual stuff rather than just talking to the people who do it and so that people can get that awesome outdoor experience. We’ll have one episode a month doing outdoor footage.

They’re going to be doing most that and they’re hooking me up with some deals and stuff, as far as for my airtime and stuff. We air three new episodes a month. We have an episode with Jana Waller and Nick Mundt. We also have Michael Waddell and Ron Schara. We also have EJ Snyder, who was on the Discovery Channel. He was on Naked and Afraid and Dual Survival. After that, I met in person with Jaylee Daanker of BuckVentures, I did an interview with them. I went fishing with them, so we’ll be airing that footage as well. We have some exciting hunting videos left on the show.

Let’s take a break here talking about what you’re doing and share with some of the people out there that follow this show and are like, “I want to be in the outdoor business. I want to be in outdoor media. I want to be a videographer.” I know a little bit about your backstory, but let’s share some of that on how you got to where you are.

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I’ll start saying this, the outdoor industry is booming like never before, it’s huge. I’ll be quite frank with you, it’s reasonably hard to survive in it because people start these outdoors businesses and you’ll have 500 different deer seeking companies in one state, and it’s right quite crazy to survive that way. I don’t sell any products for myself, I’ll do sponsorships and ads, but I don’t sell any products. I couldn’t exactly tell you how that side of the outdoor industry works. There’s not a lot of outdoor media. You have Wide Open Spaces, you have Outdoor Hunt, Outdoor Life, Field and Stream and you have what I’m doing. I would consider an outdoor podcast media. What you’re doing, I would consider that media. We have all kinds of different media platforms and I started off with some plain, simple, humble blog, I still have the blog right now. I made a little blog about me being an outdoorsman. I post stuff about me going outdoors, whether it was me trapping an animal or practicing survival skills or doing small game hunting. That’s what I posted it out and that grew. I posted on social media and helped expand the viewership.

In November of 2015, we redesigned the website to make it more of an outdoor media site and make it look more like a new site. We started posting news content and that is doing well, I was posting about whatever outdoor events that are going on today. Those do well we can share them on social media, I’ve been blessed with a big social media platform and I’ll post that and it’ll blow up, we got 2,000 Facebook shares on that post. In outdoor media, you have to start off small. Let’s say you want to start with outdoor writing, you have that blog, you have a whole lot of articles about the outdoors. There’s a bunch of articles about the outdoors, a bunch of stuff there. You go out and go to Outdoor Hunting, Wide Open Spaces, or Outdoor Life or whatever and say, “Here’s my blog. Here’s my resume per se, of all my outdoor writing work, would you allow me to write for you guys? You don’t have to pay me at first. Post a couple of articles and see how it goes, see if you generate any revenue off of it and see if you like it.”

If they like it, you have a job and they’d pay $50 to $100 an article. You building that blog is a resume to write for other companies and make yourself a nice paycheck each month for outdoor writing. If you wrote twelve articles a month for publications that are paying you, you probably make about $500 a month. That’s one way to begin in outdoor writing, start with a blog. Write a whole bunch of articles for your own blog. You may not make any money off of that but at least you have a resume showing off of your work. When you’d go to another publisher and say, “Here’s my work, would you be interested in publishing it?” they’re like, “We’ll pay you.”

You have yourself a nice little income and you have a good way to start. I know that you wrote for GoHunt.com, another outdoor media platform. There are probably a few hundred blogs and websites out there for people to go and see if they’re interested in writing. There’s one website I wrote back when I was fourteen years old, they only paid me $5 an article. When I was a fourteen-year-old, $5 was better than zero bucks. I was writing articles anyway, give me $5 for each one. I’d write probably ten a month, that’s $50. That worked.

That’s one way to get started in writing and hopefully write. At the end say, “This article was brought to you by my blog.” The people can click that and go to your blog and that’s one way build that up in doing a blog or whatever media. You could have a podcast and you can be promoting your podcast like what you’re doing. You have a TV show on YouTube, or on Gen7 Outdoors or whatever and promote yourself on outdoor writing. Outdoor writing is a great way to begin with outdoor media, you grow from there. In my experience, that’s how I started. I started writing for other people, I started doing a radio show that was also turned into a podcast. I’ve been blessed TV show, I have published books, and it grew from outdoor writing and you go where it takes you.

Forget the age. I’m an older guy, Blake’s a young guy but it doesn’t matter, we love the outdoor industry. I’ve had over 166,000 downloads on my little podcast and nobody knows me. We get some people on social media about 40,000 people, “friends” or whatever connections. Thinking of that, he did mention goHUNT and props to goHUNT and Chris Porter out there. They gave me a start in my writing and it was hard to begin, it wasn’t easy but in the end, I made a couple of bucks. I got started, my name was out there and I could say, “I’ve done some work for these people over here, check it out. If you like what you read, let’s do something forward.” You have to begin at someplace.

Here’s a thing, people would try to offer me to go out there and try to get in the outdoor industry promoting their own name. Let’s say some guy’s name’s Billy Joe, he goes out there and his goal is to make himself famous and make people know who Billy Joe is. Billy Joe isn’t going to succeed because there are many other people out there. You already have all this other famous outdoors. You have Steven Rinella, Jim Shockey, Michael Waddell, Ron Schara, you have all kinds of different people. Steven Rinella, he has all kinds of different exotic hunts and then you have Michael Waddell, who hunts in North America and people can relate with Michael Waddell easily. You have all kinds of different hunters and they’re all taking up, what I’m saying by that, you’re not going to succeed in the outdoor industry because there’s too big of competition there for you to promote your name.

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What you do is you could grow a business name. I bet you, if I were to announce your name, Whitetail Rendezvous, people would know what the name Whitetail Rendezvous is, or they know the name Bruce Hutcheon. They’re going to know the name of my TV show and the name of my radio show before they know who Blake Alma is. I had a guy, Justin McFadden I believe was his name. He was saying. “I was on a podcast, I can’t remember what it was called, and it’s called Whitetail Rendezvous. I cannot remember the name of the host but we were talking about this and this.” He didn’t remember the name. People will remember the name Whitetail Rendezvous, that’s an awesome podcast name. I remember that easily. That guy who came on my show, Justin on Gen7 Outdoors, he remembered your name. People will remember your brand name before they’ll remember your actual name.

There are more people who I can quote the name, Bone Collector, than Michael Waddell. You see the name Bone Collector on the back of a truck when you’re going down the interstate, you’re in Walmart, you can see these cartridges they sell and they say Bone Collector. Bone Collector’s on everything, you don’t see Michael Waddell’s name on everything but you see Bone Collector, it’s easy to remember a brand name than your actual name. I’d encourage you if you’re going to social media, name everything with the name of your company and not with your name. I’m not going to call my radio Blake Alma Show, nobody’s going to remember that. The Outdoorsman’s Art, it’s like, “That’s a unique name, are they talking about paintings?” “No, they talk about the art, the skill, of an outdoors person.” You got to market it with the brand name, not your names.

Well said. For the audience, remember that. Everybody wants to see their name in life. I do, Blake, does but in reality, in the business world, Whitetail Rendezvous is the brand. Who cares who I am, in all seriousness? You got to get away from yourself, forget about yourself, get a brand, get a logo, and then go out and start working. It’s hard. I can remember the hundreds of hours it took me to write my articles at goHUNT, getting started. It was painful, the same thing with the podcast, it was painful. Everything is on me. I don’t have anybody else doing what I’m doing and that’s okay.

You don’t need a lot of money, you need a computer, you need some software and you go to work. Mic and headsets and that’s it. I’m sitting in my office and that’s how it goes. You don’t have a lot of overhead but you’ve got to stay with it, as Blake stayed with it, just as I’d stayed with it. You’d say, “We’re going to start on this journey. I don’t exactly know where it’s going to go but I’m going to do the things I love.” Blake is out in the woods chasing squirrels, chipmunks or rabbits or whatever he’s chasing. He likes to do that and he likes to write about that. He likes to write about the experiences, he likes to write about the people that don’t want us to hunt. By the way, how’d that book do?

Better than any other book that I’ve written. Of course, it received a lot of backlash.

I can imagine why. Tell people the name of it.

The Hunter’s War: Vegans Vs. Hunters. There were a lot of vegans who harassed it and they would buy the book just to read it, to write a bad review or whatever. Most of the reviews, they’ve put some crazy swear word or use unbelievable terminology and Amazon would accept it. If they did, I would report it because it was foul, cruel comments from the vegans. There were a couple from hunters like, “You’re an idiot. You’re the one starting the war.” I’m like, “I’m trying to end it.” I don’t hate these vegans. Hunting has been around for at least 4,000 years. After the great flood, we had hunting. Veganism, there might’ve vegan here and there 200 or 300 years ago but it wasn’t as big as it is now. It’s from a first world country. You’re not going to go to Africa and be like, “That guy’s a vegan.” No, they’re going to kill to survive. It’s a first-world problem, we’re so spoiled. It’s do-goodism, and veganism is do-goodism. It’s something they cling on to and say, “I’m good. Speak for your own religion.” They want to say, “I’m better than you. You kill animals, you idiot, you stupid.” I’m like, “What’s your point?” “I’m better than you.” “Congratulations, you’re better than me, you want a dollar now?” I don’t know what I’m supposed to do with these people.

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It has come to the point that it’s annoying and I’ve come across every vegan type of that and it’s the most annoying thing. I’ll tell you what’s more annoying in my career in the outdoor industry than vegans. Vegans are probably going to be around for as long as we do. You’re not going to eliminate it because there are too many people who agree with vegans. You have 10% hunters, you have 10% vegans and then you have the 80% who are not. Unfortunately, they do lean to the vegan side unless you explain to them how the conservation behind hunting work and how hunting is ethical. People for the ethical treatment of animals, that’s us. It’s ethical to put a bullet through the heart of a deer and he dies in seconds. It’s ethical to me. If you explain to them the conservation efforts, you explain how ethical, how awesome it is to go on the field, harvest your food, butcher it yourself, making sure that it doesn’t have any hormones in it, do something fun and go out and do.

It’s something that you get to experience the manliness and the awesomeness behind getting your food. If I had my way, I would live off the land. I don’t have plans to do that, but I would. There’s something about it that’s much more awesome than going to the grocery store and find meat. You don’t see animals that go to a grocery store and buy meat. Animals survive a lot better than us because they have their survival instincts during the past 200 years. In the event if some crazy economic thing happens, you see all these hurricanes and all this stuff, you have Hurricane Harvey now you have Hurricane Irma and you have another one that’s brewing up in the Atlantic. What are you going to do if you find yourself in a situation where you have no food? If you don’t know how to hunt, you don’t know how to trap, you don’t know how to find yourself some wild plant edibles, you are screwed.

Knowing the basics of outdoor survival is great, if you know how to go out there and harvest yourself some big deer, that’s great. Do you know what’s better? Going out there and be able to trap little chipmunks or squirrel. If you have these proteins now, you go find yourself a bigger animal. You work your way up, you’d get yourself a squirrel, you gain strength, there’s protein there. Now you have that strength, you go kill a raccoon now. Yes, you can eat raccoon, I’ve eaten it, it tastes like garbage but you can eat it. You’d work up, you eat a coyote, they aren’t all that tasty but you could eat a coyote. After you have that much protein, you can go harvest some deer. You get better at it as you go along.

Being a hunter is a good thing, for not only conservation reasons and enjoyment reasons. It’s also for plain survival. For you to know how to hunt, the chances are you’re going to survive a hurricane or some disaster before anybody else. Not only is hunting good for food and conservation efforts, it’s also for survival reasons. Survival should be taught in schools. Hunting has been around for years. You’re not going to ask a bear to stop hunting, it’s retarded. He’s not going to stop hunting. You can try to take away his teeth, but he’s still going to hunt. You take away my guns and bows, I’m still hunting. Vegans, explain this. Canines eat fruit, but why do we have canine teeth then? You got to think outside the box I’m like, “We have canine teeth so we can eat meat.”

Veganism is the most retarded, most unethical idea. Not everybody gets up there. I hate racism, I hate abortion and I don’t like homosexuality but veganism is one of the dumbest things ever. It’s a threat to the outdoor world, but if we stay united and hunt together, they aren’t going to stop us. The thing is they’re winning right now because hunters have not been united the way they’re supposed to be. We bicker about who baits or who doesn’t. Who uses a Hoyt and who uses a Bear? Who cares? I don’t. I use a Bear. That doesn’t make me any better than the guy who uses the Hoyt or Matthews, does it? No. I don’t care what brand you use. “You like Realtree?” “I like Realtree too,” or, “You like Mossy Oak.” “Cool, good for you. I’m happy that you like Mossy Oak.” I’m not going to yell at him saying, “You better use some Realtree camo.”

This shirt right now is Mossy Oak, my hat is Realtree. I’m not going to hunt in different colors but I hunt in Realtree. I don’t have anything against Mossy Oak. First to bicker about some of these stupid things is dumb. What I also hate more than veganism is hunters bickering among themselves. I get harassed all the time for my age and that bugs me. Veganism will not stand a chance. PETA, anti-hunters, any of that, will not stand a chance if we work together and stay together and be united hunters as we should be. Instead of bickering about who uses what, who has the biggest deer, who bait and who doesn’t, we’re all in it together. We all like to hunt.

We’re helping the vegans when we fight. We put ourselves in categories, you have elk hunters, deer hunters, you have squirrel hunters, and there are all these different types of hunters. We need to go out together like vegans are and then we could fight the real enemies, not each other but anti-hunters and vegans. That’s the issue. I know I went on 50 different rabbit trails. It’s one of those things I’m passionate about and I want us hunters to be united and to fight for our rights to bear arms and to go out in the field and harvest game. Everything scientifically, spiritually, politically, all agrees with us hunters. To get rid of us hunters would be the stupidest thing in the world. We hunters are the reason why America is built. If we didn’t have hunters, I don’t know where America would be right now. If we all came in as a bunch of vegans, we probably wouldn’t be here, a bunch of herb trimmers and harvest beavers. You have the mountain men there, and you have cowboys who saddled cattle to eat the cattle. The foundation was built upon the foundation of meat-eating. To eliminate them is the dumbest thing in the world.

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In the 21st century, with no doubt in my mind, it is healthier to be a vegan than to eat meat. Why? In the 21st century, they’ll put all kinds of junk in meat. In a piece of sausage, you have no idea what body part or what animal that even is. You have no idea. If that probably is the case, I’d probably be a healthier person than if I went to the grocery store to eat meat. Guess what? If harvested my meat, whether that’s through livestock or through hunting, being an omnivore in that case, as being a hunter or a farmer, I’d be much healthier than a vegan. A vegan’s probably healthier than a guy who lives in New York City who eats meat from the grocery store. No doubt, but here in the countryside, if a vegan or a meat-eater got into the arm-wrestling competition, I can promise you the meat-eater will win. I want us to realize how a threat veganism is. A lot of hunters don’t see it as a threat. It’s a huge threat. I want us to unite, to get out there and fight for our rights as hunters. I wish would come to that.

That’s why I think one of your “secrets” is you’ve got the information, you can lay it out there and you have the passion and fervor to say, “This is what I think, this is what I don’t.” A lot of people know this as well as I do, they tippy-toe around situations and you don’t. You just say, “I’m laying it out here. Here’s the way it is and this is what we should do.” Props to you for doing that because many times we pick at ourselves and that’s the stupidest thing in the world. We’ve been talking about Ford and Chevy forever, but when it comes to hunting, we got to join up and celebrate the hunt, if you will. Celebrate the success of Bob and Susie and Mary and John and Blake and Bruce and all the other people, celebrate their success. When they have a kill shot posted, say, “Good job. Congrats.” It doesn’t matter if it’s a spike or a full-on booner. That’s my two cents on that. When we talk about that, let’s talk about hunting. What kind of hunting are you going to do? You’ve been doing a lot of different hunting. What’s on the docket?

For the past years that I’ve been in the outdoors, most of what I did was fishing. Survival feels different with a lot of small game hunting. When I say small game, I mean rabbit, squirrel and the occasional dove hunting that I get to go on. I went turkey hunting and that was the experience of a lifetime even though didn’t harvest anything, it was still awesome being able to hear those turkey gobble. I bought a Bear bow, I don’t care what brand it is but it shoots, it’s accurate and I’m happy with the bow. I don’t care what brand it is. I like Bear because of Fred Bear’s legacy, he’s an awesome guy. If it wasn’t for him, I don’t think hunters would be at where they are right now. I want to respect his legacy, that’s the reason why I use a Bear bow. I’ve been playing with the Bear bow. I bought two deer tags, but I probably will buy more. If I tag out with my two I have right now, I can get five, either a sixth deer.

I have been doing some deer hunting. I teamed up with Woods and Water Addiction there in Eastern Ohio. I’m in Western and I plan on going out in the out east here in Ohio and harvest things. I don’t care how big a buck is or how much muscle it has on there, I want to eat the thing and that’s what I know. Having a big buck would be nice. If I see this Boone and Crockett buck come out, he’s going to die. If I see a doe or I spike buck I’m like, “I want you to die because I’m hungry. I’m going to eat you.” I don’t care how big the buck is, if a big one comes out, you’re going to die. If a small one comes out, you’re probably going to die. I want to eat as soon as possible. I plan on doing some deer hunting. I’m still playing with that Bear, I got two of the pinpoints sighted, I hope when I get that third one locked and loaded and I hope to get some film as well. It would be a pretty good year.

How much time do you dedicate to your outdoor career? I’m assuming you still go to high school.

I’m sixteen. I’m turning seventeen. I have school, I’m a senior in school and I’m about done, thankfully. I’m homeschooled though. That’s been beneficial to my career because I wake up in the morning, spend 2 or 3 hours at school and I’m done. I don’t have to sit there in a class for hours learning who knows what these days. I read my textbook, write down notes, make sure I got it, highlight whatever I need to highlight, study for the test, take the test and I’m done. I’m not going to sit there for 30 minutes, even an hour sitting there listening to somebody yap about somebody. I’m doing anatomy. I’m not going to sit there and listen to how the fingernail grows.

I’d rather read it for myself and be done with it. I do well in school, probably A-minus to B plus average. I’m doing okay. Juggling school with my other work has been difficult, especially since school is during the same time as hunting season. I want to go out and go shoot something while my mom wants me inside reading something that some hunter geek wrote this long boring subject about. If I was in school, I would go to Christian school, they’re eight hours a day, I highly doubt I’ll be where I am right now. Homeschooling has been a big benefit, I’ll spend 2 to 3 hours to be at school.

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Once I go downstairs to my office and do some outdoor stuff, that’s me writing articles, propping the video to be edited or whatever. I’ll go down, do my daily stuff, the outdoor stuff and then now I’ll come out here in the woods like I am right now on the weekday and try to shoot some squirrels and devour them for dinner. As far as time goes, as a teenager, I could waste my time playing video games or whatever. I do have additional time, but if you have a full-time job doing whatever it would be awesome. I wake up at 7:00 AM, finished at 5:00 PM, I’d only have that evening time to do my work. If school were 8:00 to 3:00, I wouldn’t have a whole lot of time to put into my outdoor work. Being homeschooled has been a big benefit.

How do people get in touch with you? If somebody wants to reach out to you, tell us where you’re at on social media platforms and if you got an email address or whatever, they could reach out to you.

You can go to my website, my website is BlakeAlma.com. There’s a contact us form that probably ends up going to me. That’s all on there. Social media-wise, my blog page is Survivalist Daily, you can search that up on Facebook. You can friend me or follow me on Facebook, I’m Blake Alma. I’m on Instagram as well, I don’t do much with Instagram. Instagram, I don’t have a bazillion friends on Instagram whatever. I just can poke in my feed and see what’s going on with my personal friends. I like Instagram for that reason. If somebody is going through my Facebook, you’ll see all kinds of stuff that has nothing to do with my life or whatever. I’ll see a lot of hunting stuff, which is awesome, but when that feed filter went out, I could see all these awesome hunting photos. That was sweet. Thank you, Peter, for that, thank you a lot. That was awesome. There’s a lot of stuff I see on my Facebook feed that I don’t care to see or any of that. Instagram has been fun for me, you should go through and see what my friends are up to. I’ve enjoyed that. I’m on Instagram, Facebook and I have a website BlakeAlma.com.

Blake, having said that, it’s time to wrap the show. Have you got any shout outs you want to give to some of your editors or anybody?

Shout out to Blake Mallory, the video editor of our TV series on the Hunt Channel. He’s been an awesome guy to work with. Big shout to my friend, Eli Gourdin. He’s been on the show as well, here in the Whitetail Rendezvous, co-host of my radio show. She was supposed to come on the show, Alli Armstrong, a good friend of mine with Grace Camo & Lace on Sportsman Channel. She’s a twenty-year-old TV host, a big shout out to her. She’s been helpful in my outdoor career with Outdoor television. If it wasn’t for her, I don’t think I would be doing outdoor TV, so a big shout out to her.

On behalf of thousands of readers in North America and we’re growing daily, part of that is it’s fun to see something grow. I want to say thank you, Blake Alma, for being a continued guest and return guest. I want to get to together with you at least once a year and find out what the heck you’re doing.

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We’re heading to Missouri and we’re going to connect with Brad Stricker. Brad is a unique man, he’s worked hard and has got a great business there in Missouri. He’s been able to buy a couple of farms and he’s excited about that. He’s going to tell us all about his farms, but he’s also going to share how he’s helping his son become a hunter and sharing the passion that he has. He’s going to talk in-depth about preparation, not only the preparation of the land, preparation and the tree stands, preparation with food plots. He’s got to talk about mental preparation, physical preparation and how to become a world-class archer. Finally, he’s driven by chasing whitetails, trying to outwit them and he like me has got busted a bunch of times and schooled a bunch of times. I bet all the readers can relate to all of that. He’s a member of Red Vanes Outdoor team members. It’s a group of guys that have an opportunity, they’re going to shoot five shows and submit them to the Hunt Channel and see where it goes.

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About Blake Alma

WTR 434BA | Hunting YoungBlake Alma resigned his role as an outdoor advocate and personality in August of 2018. Blake became known for his outdoor accomplishments at his young age. It defined him. After 4 years of working in the outdoor industry, he saw a shift of reactions to his work. As he got older, he saw the endless, godless hate from opposing parties more than he saw a loving and accepting outdoor community. As a result due to the endless hate and his fleeing teenhood, he stepped down from hosting The Outdoor Experience and his other outdoor roles. Before he resigned, he announced that his younger co-host would take over his work but they had an unfortunate falling out because of conflicting religious differences. He then attempted to have a dear friend of his that was an inspiring, handicapped sportsman take over. However, after long chats and deep thoughts, Blake’s friend came to the conclusion that God wanted him to go in a different direction.  Blake entirely understood his friend’s decision. Blake did not renew his contract with the Hunt Channel for another season of his show and the show was removed off of CarbonTV.

As of December of 2018, Blake now lives on his own in Cincinnati, Ohio. He of course still hunts, but each day he has grown more and more fond of fishing. After year since his resignation, he has been living the quite life. Recently, Blake has been putting together a different program. He will announce his new program in early 2020.