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Thanks for posting that AZ8.......

I've hunted a couple of times for elk way up hay hollow road, that was about 15 years ago and I told myself I'd never go out there again..........plus my crazy brother in law lives out there and I know what kind of company he keeps!!!!

I heard on local news this morning Pumpkin Center but this is all I have been able to find so far! Probably cause they are trying to set bait for a bunch more of those criminal types from the "Snowflake" area Actually a pretty funny read.....small town stuff!! Authorities did not specify where they caught Blane Barksdale, 56, and his wife, Susan, 59. They had been on the run since Aug. 26, when they commandeered a prison transport van in Utah and escaped into rural Arizona. It's unclear where the Barksdales were discovered. But locals said there were a million places they could have laid low among a labyrinth of dead-end roads, cattle ranches, trailers and bushy juniper trees in the high-desert backcountry of northeastern Arizona. The couple and their borrowed red pickup seemed to have vanished into the teardrop-shaped expanse between Snowflake, Concho and Show Low. "Who knows where they could be?" said Verlinda Adams, 65, just hours before the Barksdales were caught. Navajo County Sheriff David Clouse said he cut his teeth as a young deputy on the rutted, gravel paths east of Snowflake. The routes lead to survivalist compounds, family cabins, drug dens, horse properties, hunting grounds or sometimes nowhere at all. "Some describe it as No Man’s Land," he said. "But that's our backyard, and we're very familiar with it." A typical patrol through the area could take hours from end to end, he said — let alone a manhunt for a couple assisted by a local criminal network in a territory where law enforcement cellphones and radios didn't always work, Clouse said. "It's so remote, it's hard to make contact. So we're offering our knowledge of the roads, the people and the local lay of the land," Clouse said before the arrests. "(The Barksdales) may have driven down their exact road, and they'll never know it because there's so many trees and their houses are set back so far. ... Your urban searches are so much easier." Authorities searched by air and land for any sign of the couple or pickup, made warrant sweeps, property searches and arrests, Arizona U.S. Marshal David Gonzales said. "(We were) beating the bushes," he said. "Nothing was popping." To ensure authorities didn't suffer from tunnel vision, they expanded the search from California to Texas in recent days. One of the first places law enforcement swarmed was the property the Barksdales own near Vernon, about 20 miles east of Show Low, according to neighbor Joe Ferreira. A SWAT team stormed the property a month ago or more, Ferreira estimated, some time before the couple hijacked the van. A white RV and plywood lean-to sat nestled on their land Wednesday against a hill overlooking Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest. The couple purchased the property in August 2018, county records showed. Near a fence surrounding the acre was a sign saying, "Hawg Heaven." Could it have been in reference to Blane Barksdale's affiliation with the Hells Angels motorcycle gang? Officials said he also is part of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang and sports swastika and lightning bolt tattoos. Ferreira, 64, a local chef who raises chickens and ducks three doors down, joked having a neighbor on the FBI's "Top 15 Most Wanted" list was "different." Normally, the small clump of homes is quiet and peaceful, he said. Wind chimes and a few dogs barking were the only sounds Wednesday afternoon. Violet and yellow wildflowers nodded in the breeze. "No Trespassing" signs stood beside every driveway. "That's what it's about: Do your own thing," Ferreira said. The manhunt added some worries, he admitted. "How can you not? You get a little nervous about it." Every time a vehicle drives by, Ferreira said, "We stick our nose in the window." But back in the quaint community of Taylor, where stores close on Sundays and residents light gunpowder every Fourth of July to launch a 172-year-old anvil into the air, most locals waved off concerns before the arrests. Adams, who was eating lunch after volunteering at the nearby Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple, said the couple seemed to be "staying put." No violent crimes or home burglaries had occurred since the Barksdales went missing, Clouse said, which likely meant they were getting help surviving and were less of a danger to the public. It was unclear if a bank robbed Tuesday in Snowflake was connected. The suspect was described as 6 inches shorter than Blane Barksdale's 6-foot-5-inch frame. People living throughout the scrub land, which some call "East of East," helped law enforcement by reporting suspicious activity and sharing video from home-security and trail cameras, Clouse said. Adams said most residents were keeping an eye out. "People know each other, and I think if they did come across someone who looked different, they would call the police," she said. Then again, Blane Barksdale probably blended easily with the homesteading folk he was believed to be hiding among, Adams said. "He looks like so many people I see: a mountain man, a scruffy-looking guy," she said.

This right here....................

UPDATE UPDATE..........................National news had reported the suspects were holed up in drug infested, white supremacist area of Snowflake ..................but they have been arrested in Pumpkin Center area.!!!!!! Good job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Every year when I start to see the pictures come in of all you guys/gals out there get'ner done I have to repost the collection I put together a few years back. It features pictures of CWT members and my boys of course. What a great time of year we are headed into!!!

It’s that time of year!!! Good luck to all tag holders! Be safe and appreciate the freedom we have because of those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice!

And none of us have to read it or respond if we don't want too........thanks to all the first responders!!!!

Awesome buck....awesome unit..................I'll take a tag from that unit any year any conditions....................

Some sweet photos.....I always find it interesting to love the wildlife so much and then the desire to go out hunting ....... just not in my back yard cause I love seeing them!!!

After all that hunting and you stuck him right in front of the Seligman S? That is awesome.......you should sell the picture to Seligman chamber of commerce for a post card!!! Great looking buck!!!

Your story was very inspiring and made me want to be a better hunter................great job!!!

Am I the only one who wants an explanation for this picture? I mean you obviously didn't waste any meat with the shot........but this picture conjured up power lines, lions, bears and all sorts of predictions with even Houston being contacted This thread is what CWT is about.................thanks so much for sharing your hunt with all of us!!!

Horrific visual that cannot be erased....................

I suppose the irony in the whole deleted discussion is we all have our own way we remember events like 9/11 depending on our own personal situation or circumstance and to say that your way of remembering it is more plausible or justified is a discredit to the individuality of us each! Personally think it is a good discussion and the original OP should stick with how he feels about remembering! Lord knows if you post it online it is gonna get jacked by somebody but that doesn't discredit the original post or those that follow............................

https://www.azfamily.com/news/buckeye-pd--year-old-arrested-after-gun-in-his/article_d70a9cd0-d338-11e9-aead-b383543ed7ac.html Buckeye PD: 18-year-old arrested after gun in his pants went off in Walmart

That is spooky for sure.................

Damage.........................

https://www.news.meredithlmg.com/walmart-ends-all-handgun-ammunition-sales-and-asks-customers-not/article_e8c9ff11-88b2-5529-bed7-ec788fdaa5b2.html

Newsome is an idiot!!!!! https://www.huffpost.com/entry/california-bans-fur-trapping_n_5d7039d7e4b09bbc9ef99517

June Goodman postal worker from Snowflake still missing! Rumor is she is somewhere between Snowflake and Concho!!!!

What you say Lee wanna go looking?

#Flagstaff no school tomorrow Friday either!!!!!

I 'll hijack my own thread.................just a reminder that what once used to be in the 60's with contests and world championships...............our state has now sheeped in behind California ways!!! Ban starts in 60 days!!!! https://www.azfamily.com/news/ap_cnn/arizona-bans-hunting-contests-for-killing-wildlife-predators/article_5b23f7c4-cff0-11e9-b4db-23481d78a40d.html