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Ray Clark hunts West Virginia

Well with Mountaineer Outdoorsman I’m staff member. Some of them call it pro staff, some field staff. With Mountaineer Outdoorsman we’re just staff members. Basically, what I do is promote for Mountaineer Outdoorsman we’re kind of a small hunting group, we’re getting out there a little bit. I just mostly promote for ’em. We have a Facebook page, we have a internet page, www.mountaineeroutdoorsman.

Once a week we have dates or each one of us has a day a week that we post on our page and it’s getting to where it’s really, really getting out there.

I just actually got back from vacation, I went to Myrtle Beach and I had my Mountaineer Outdoorsman shirt on. And I actually struck up a couple of conversations over that and believe it or not there was people that said, “Mountaineer Outdoorsman?” And I was like, “Yes.” And they said, “You know, I have heard of you guys.” I thought that was awesome, being that far away and people had already heard of us.

Mountaineer Outdoorsman I’m staff member.

That’s great, that’s great. Well, listeners, I hope you took some notes on that because it does take persistence, it does take reaching some common ground and truly developing a relationship on social media or just calling a person, or getting ahold of ’em, or seeing ’em at a show or shop or something and just start building a relationship. And it really is who you know and what you know. But the who you know is more important than the what you know. Because a lot of people wanted to get in the outdoor industry and it is difficult because everybody can’t get on the deal.

So thanks for sharing that Ray, and let’s stay right here and you’re passionate about bowhunting so talk to us about your whitetail experience there in the mountains of West Virginia.

Okay, it is very tough here. You go out west or Ohio, it’s a pretty close state for me, you pattern, pattern, pattern. You have stands for wind conditions. Here in the West Virginia mountains, we cannot do that. The wind changes all the time. We don’t have [inaudible 00: 07:48]. If you think you’re going to pattern one of these big bucks you have another think coming.

I have hunted these deers like I said, for 32, 33 years and I have yet to pattern one of ’em

It’s not going to happen. I have hunted these deers like I said, for 32, 33 years and I have yet to pattern one of ’em. It’s tough, it really is. And I listened to Mike’s interview when he was on with you and he hit it right on the head there. We have to drive our side by side 20, 30 minutes back in the mountains and sometimes we have a 30, 40-minute walk to get to our tree stand. It’s tough in the mountains, it really is.

They love white oaks

They love white oaks, we look for a lot of white oaks. I do hunt a lot of scrape and rub lines, I’ve had good success over that. Basically, trails, like right now they’re in their spring pattern so you might see ’em in this field every day. But if you think you’re gonna go up there and set a tree stand up at the edge of that field that it’s gonna be like that come the fall, it’s totally changed because they change their pattern. They have a spring and a fall pattern. Which I’m sure they’re like that everywhere.