Blake Byram: Hunting Enthusiast

Blake Byram lives and works in Austin, Texas, where he is a professional developer involved in numerous construction projects.

He is also an enthusiastic hunter. Blake Byram is President of the Pedernales Rod and Gun Club, is a member of the National Rifle Association, and is a lifetime member of Safari Club International. He also belongs to the Dallas Safari Club and the Houston Safari Club hunting clubs.

Texas is known for its size and its wide open spaces, but it isn’t always easy for hunters there to find a place to hunt. Most Texas hunters face three options: hunt on public land, use the services of a guide or outfitter, or like Blake Byram, join a hunting club. Most hunters in Texas either belong to a lease/club or hunt through a guide/outfitter.

Approximately ninety-seven percent of Texas land is privately owned, and the state’s landowners long ago learned that hunters are willing to pay for access to tracts with good game populations. Studies show that about eighty-five percent of the state’s more than one million hunters pursue the activity on private property.

Only forty-three years old, Blake Byram has already had a lifetime of adventure. He has been a licensed pilot since 1992, and as such has donated his piloting skills and personal aircraft to many worthy missions. He has flown medical supplies and doctors to Haiti for the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders. He has flown search and rescue missions after Hurricane Katrina and flooding in his hometown of Austin. And he has donated helicopter time and instruction to the Bridgepoint Elementary school in the Eanes Independent School District for their Science Day in 2010, 2011 and 2012.

Blake Byram: Veteran Developer

Blake Byram is a professional developer who lives and works in Austin, Texas. His company developed and constructed a 20,000 square foot facility for BF Goodrich Aerospace in record time, enabling Goodrich to keep its distribution agreements intact.
He has performed tenant finish out projects for various companies around Austin, including the City of Austin, Weingarten Realty and Trammell Crow Company.

All told, Blake Byram’s family business has developed more than 200,000 square feet of industrial space in Austin and the surrounding area.

Blake Byram is also a skilled pilot who has been a licensed pilot for nearly a quarter of a century. He received his pilot’s license in 1992. The year before that Blake Byram entered the United States Coast Guard, where he served until 1994. He graduated at the top of his Basic Training class, for which he received an Honor Graduate ribbon. Blake Byram successfully completed the Coast Guard’s Aviation Survival Training and Close Quarter Combat training course, earning him the rating Aviation Survival Technician. Candidates train over eighteen weeks at the Coast Guard’s enlisted Aviation Survival Technician school at Coast Guard Station Elizabeth City in North Carolina.

In civilian life, Blake Byram is a scuba diver with certification from the the Professional Association of Diving Instructors. He is a member of the National Rifle Association. Blake Byram enjoys hunting, and is a lifetime member of Safari Club International, the Dallas Safari Club, and the Houston Safari Club.

Blake Byram is also a USA Football certified youth head coach. He is the head coach of a team in the Pop Warner football association.

Blake Byram: A Love of Aviation

Blake Byram is an enthusiastic aviator. He has been a licensed pilot since 1992, and for the last three years has been a member of the Aircraft Owner Pilot’s Association.

Blake Byram is always ready to share not only his enthusiasm for flying, but his aircraft and piloting skills as well. He
donated helicopter time and instruction to the Bridgepoint Elementary school in the Eanes Independent School District for their Science Day in 2010, 2011 and 2012. He conducted a class in aerodynamics for the elementary school students, in hopes of increasing the children’s interest in the aviation industry.
Blake Byram piloted and donated his helicopter time to the Extreme Makeover TV show aired on ABC, for the episode on the victims of the devastating 2011 Bastrop fires, the most destructive wildfire in Texas history. He also donated his helicopter time for the home makeover of firefighter Mizzy Zdroj, and hosted a fundraiser for Fashion for Compassion, benefitting the Austin Children’s Shelter.

He donated his helicopter and pilot services to the Neighborhood Night Out program in Cedar Park, Texas, two years in a row. For this, Blake Byram received a Certificate of Appreciation from the Cedar Park Police Department.

Blake Byram has used his aviation abilities to fly doctors and medical supplies to Port au Prince Haiti for Doctors Without Borders, the international humanitarian medical organization. He used his own aircraft to make these flights.

As a Coast Guard veteran and longtime supporter of the American military, Blake Byram donated event space and time for numerous charitable events benefitting veterans, including Wounded Warriors.

Blake Byram: An Active Life

Blake Byram has led the kind of life that seems part reality show, part movie script. He is a licensed pilot who has flown numerous humanitarian missions to Port au Prince, Haiti, on behalf of Doctors without Borders, flying both doctors and medical supplies to that island nation. A licensed pilot for more than twenty years, he flew search and rescue missions in Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. He also donated helicopter and pilot service to Equisearch after flooding in Austin, Texas, searching for drowning victims.

Blake Byram served in the United States Coast Guard from 1991 to 1994. He finished his Basic Training as an Honor Graduate, meaning he was a top recruit. Blake Byram has received the award of Expert Marksman in pistol and rifle shooting. He received a Meritorious Commendation for Service Above and Beyond the Call of Duty for assisting in a drug interdiction program involving Haitian smugglers. He completed the Coast Guard’s Aviation Survival man Training and Close Quarter Combat training course.

Blake Byram is a lifetime member of Safari Club International, an advocacy group promoting wildlife conservation and protecting hunters’ rights. He is also a member of the Dallas Safari Club and the Houston Safari Club.

Blake Byram is a member of the National Rifle Association.

BlakeByram is a USA Football certified youth head coach. He is a head coach in the Pop Warner football association.
He is certified in CPR, and trained in the affects of heat exhaustion and concussions in youth sports.