where is every one from

[cms0800]

where is every one from and how is the hunting???athens here. hunting has been good.

[Q2XL]

central ohio here. seein lots of does but none big enough for me yet.:D

[cms0800]

i got a nice 9 pt. on the 10-26

[wallydog1]

N. Royalton can,t hunt here so Belmont and Jefferson co is where I go.Seeing lots of deer but no big boys yet.

[BigDale]

I am SW Ohio, Troy to be exact. I am seeing alot of bucks on my 2 spots, More bucks than does actually the last 3 times out. The place is just crawling with them and it was very similar last year but many of them are acrost the fence on a farm I do not have permission to hunt. I also try to get down your way once a year to wayne for deer be it gun or muzzleloader and I am there in the spring for Turkeys

[It's Not A Passion..]

Southwest Ohio. Live in Pike County, but do most of my hunting in Ross County.

[Jedi Woodsman]

Ne Ohio Here, in the Trumbull county system.

[Caribou Dreamer2]

Central Ohio for me,but with your poll i voted NW.

[cms0800]

central is columbus and the burbs

[KillerSquirrel]

Central Ohio my whole life. I hunt central and southeast Ohio.

[bowtech777]

Cleveland Ohio Are, Brunswick/Medina and I now live in Parma Ohio

[rjolenic]

Sylvania, Ohio, about 7 miles west of Downtown Toledo.

[Redhunter1012]

NW Ohio. Mt. Cory. SW Hancock county. Hunting has been good and getting better by the day.

[prduffy]

An island in the Detroit River.

I'm a native East Toledoan and do most of my bowhunting in NW OH.

[rjolenic]

hey prduffy,

Where in NW Ohio do you hunt? I hunt in Swanton and hunting has been decent this year.

Ray

[kpsingleton]

Cuyahoga county, Westlake to be exact.

Do most of my hunting in Trumbull, Holmes and Harrison county.

[lung buster]

Hocking county, do all of my hunting in my back yard!!:D

[Woody Wood]

The C.O. Slugs are in the house! East Side!

[Duffy]

Northeast Ohio, specifically Cuyahoga Falls, just north of Akron, Summit County.

I hunt private land in Summit County, and public land in Portage and Trumbull counties.

[Lance]

I live in Akron.

I deer hunt Summit county up here and Harrison/Guernsey and Tuscarawas down south. Birds, I'm all over the place down south.

[Jimmy]

Live NW of Columbus, Marysville to be exact.

I hunt here on my gigantic 10 acres :D and about 35 acres down in Noble County.

[Thunderflight]

I voted Columbus only because Johnstown is about 20 minutes from there.

[Jimmy]

Originally posted by Thunderflight
I voted Columbus only because Johnstown is about 20 minutes from there.

That and because he didn't include an option for "Sanitarium" :D

[countyroad]

From Wooster in Wayne County. I hunt on family ground in Holmes County however.

[Hiller]

Ashland county

[camo]

NE ohio .. chardon

[hunTer06]

Good ol Perry County;)

[tuffshot]

Being about 65 miles Due South of Columbus is where I reside and hunt..;)

Looks like there are alot of Northern boys on here..

[Lundy43123]

Live in Grove city, hunt near Athens

[jeffmo]

i live and do most of my hunting in southern pickaway county and vinton county.

[Shadow]

Geauga County - Chardon & Parkman

[peanutbutter]

Nearly half of the US peanut crop was used to make peanut butter in 2001. Runner peanuts are preferred for peanut butter because they are very uniform in size, which is important to achieve evenly roasted peanuts for the best tasting peanut butter. Runner peanuts are grown primarily in Georgia, Alabama and Florida. These three states accounted for 60% of the U.S. crop in 2001.

Peanuts are planted after the last frost in April, when soil temperatures reach 65° to 70° Fahrenheit. The shelled peanut itself also is the seed. Specially grown and treated peanut kernels from the previous year's crop are planted two inches deep, approximately one to two inches apart in rows.

Peanut seeds crack the soil about 10 days after planting and grow into a green oval-leafed plant about 18 inches tall. The peanut plant is unusual because it flowers above the ground, but fruits below the ground. Delicate yellow flowers form on the plant about 40 days after planting. The flowers pollinate themselves, then the petals fall off as the peanut ovary begins to form. This budding ovary, called a 'peg,' grows away from the plant on a vine and penetrates the soil. The peanuts mature below the ground.

Peanuts are harvested 120 to 160 days after planting, usually in September and October. Harvesting is a rapid process. When the soil is not too wet or too dry (both conditions leave the peanuts stuck in the ground as the plant is pulled free), the farmer drives a tractor with a digger-shaker attachment along the rows of peanuts. The digger has long blades that run four to six inches under the ground loosening the plant and cutting the tap root. Just behind the blade, a shaker lifts the plant from the ground, gently shakes the soil from the peanuts and lays the plant upside-down in windrows to dry in the sun for two to three days.

The farmer then drives a combine over the windrows to pick the peanuts from the vines. The peanuts are collected in a hopper and the plants are laid back on the ground. The plants can be baled for cattle feed or mulched into the field. The peanuts are dumped into peanut wagons which can be attached to forced air dryers to further dry the peanuts to 10% moisture for storage.

The peanut wagons are taken to buying stations where they are weighed, graded and inspected by the Federal-State Inspection Service to determine the quality and value of the load.

There are 16,000 peanut farmers in nine primary states in the US. Peanut farms are mostly operated by family farmers who grow an average of 98 acres of peanuts each year on a 3-year rotation, usually with cotton, corn, soybeans and grass crops. Farmers sold their peanuts in the domestic market for about 30.5¢ a pound in 2001.



From the buying station, the peanuts travel to shelling plants. The peanuts are passed over a series of screens which separate any farm materials such as sticks and rocks from the peanuts and then separate the peanuts by size.

The peanuts are shelled and then inspected by a laser beam and by people to eliminate any immature kernels. The sheller then packs the peanuts into bags, boxes or railcars for delivery to product manufacturers.

The peanut butter manufacturers inspect the peanuts to ensure high quality then roast them in special ovens which provide an even roast. After roasting, the peanuts are fast-cooled by suction fans that circulate air quickly. Rapid cooling is necessary to halt the cooking process, retain an even color and prevent the loss of too much oil.

Another machine rubs the peanuts gently between rubber belts to remove the outer skin ~ this is called blanching. The kernels are split, the hearts removed and the peanuts are cleaned and sorted a final time.

Finally, the peanuts are ground in two stages (one long grinding would produce too much heat, damaging the flavor of the peanut butter). In the first stage, the peanuts are ground alone. In the second stage, salt, sweetener and stabilizer (to keep the oil from separating) are added.

Peanut butter today is remarkably like that made 100 years ago. It contains, by law, a minimum of 90% peanuts, with no artificial sweeteners, colors or preservatives. Some brands add about 7% natural sweeteners and 1% salt for taste, plus a stabilizer to keep the peanut butter fresh and the oil from separating. "Old-fashioned" or "natural" peanut butter does not have the stabilizer so the oil will separate and should be stirred back in before using. Peanut butter does not need to be refrigerated.

"Peanut butter spreads," a relatively new category now allowed by FDA, contain only 60% peanuts, but are nutritionally equivalent to peanut butter (although they may contain more sugar or salt). Many companies introduced peanut butter spreads as a reduced-fat alternative to peanut butter. But today there also are real peanut butters on the market (look for Laura Scudder and Smuckers) which are 25% reduced-fat and still contain at least 90% peanuts.

From www.peanutbutterlovers.com.

[jcollert]

Northwest Ohio, Hancock County, near Mt. Cory

[Andy Gehle]

A legume is a simple dry fruit which develops from a simple carpel and usually dehisces (opens along a seam) on two sides. A common name for this type of fruit is a "pod", although pod is also applied to a few other fruit types. Well-known plants that bear legume fruits include alfalfa, clover, peas, beans, lupins and peanuts. A peanut is not a nut in the botanical sense; a peanut is an indehiscent legume, that is, one that does not spontaneously split open along a seam.
Legumes are noteworthy for their ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen, an accomplishment attributable to a symbiotic relationship with certain bacteria known as rhizobia found in root nodules of these plants. The ability to form this symbiosis reduces fertilizer costs for farmers that grow legumes, and means that legumes can be used in a crop rotation to replenish soil that has been depleted of nitrogen.

Legume seed and foliage has a comparatively higher protein content than non-legume material, probably due to the additional nitrogen that legumes receive through nitrogen-fixation symbiosis. This high protein content makes them desirable crops in agriculture. Farmed legumes fall into two classes: forage and grain. Forage legumes, like alfalfa, clover and vetch, are sown in pasture and grazed by livestock. Grain legumes are cultivated for their seeds, and are also called pulses. The seeds are used for human and animal consumption or for the production of oils for industrial uses. Grain legumes include beans, lentils, lupins, peas, peanuts and soybeans.

The term is derived from the French word "légume" (which, however, has a wider meaning and refers to any kind of vegetable).

[Duffy]

Big Bang Cosmology Primer
By Paul Shestople, 12/24/97

Our understanding of the Universe has greatly increased over the past few decades. The current model of how the Universe formed is known as the Big Bang theory. This article discusses the highlights of that theory.

Our Universe
Two and a half models
The steady state theory of cosmology claims that the Universe simply exists without changing with time. This theory presents many physical as well as philosophical difficulties. Evidence suggests that the Universe is expanding. While there are ways to explain expansion in a steady state universe, few astrophysicists believe this theory, because there is little evidence to support it. As the first widely held theory about the Universe it is included here for historical completeness.

The big bang theory states that at some time in the distant past there was nothing. A process known as vacuum fluctuation created what astrophysicists call a singularity. From that singularity, which was about the size of a dime, our Universe was born.

It is hard to imagine the very beginning of the Universe. Physical laws as we know them did not exist due to the presence of incredibly large amounts of energy, in the form of photons. Some of the photons became quarks, and then the quarks formed neutrons and protons. Eventually huge numbers of Hydrogen, Helium and Lithium nuclei formed. The process of forming all these nuclei is called big bang nucleosynthesis. Theoretical predictions about the amounts and types of elements formed during the big bang have been made and seem to agree with observation. Furthermore, the cosmic microwave background (CMB), a theoretical prediction about photons left over from the big bang, was discovered in the 1960's and mapped out by a team at Berkeley in the early 1990's.


The Cosmic Microwave Background

After some period of time following the big bang, gravity condensed clumps of matter together. The clumps were gravitationally pulled towards other clumps and eventually formed galaxies. It is extremely difficult to model how this clumping may have occurred, but most models agree that it occurred faster than it should have. A possible explanation is that right after the big bang the Universe began a period of exaggerated outward expansion, with particles flying outward faster than the current speed of light. This explanation is known as inflation theory, and has widespread advocacy within the astrophysics community because it reconciles theory with observation. It should be noted, however, that inflation theory is not directly verifiable.

Whether you believe inflation theory or not, galaxies did form. And since they formed from matter that was moving rapidly, they also move rapidly. Due to a phenomenon called doppler shifting, the wavelength emitted by something moving away from us is shifted to a lower frequency, and the wavelength of something moving towards us is shifted to a higher frequency. A good example of this is the sound of a fire truck siren as it drives by; the pitch of the siren is higher as the fire truck moves towards you, and lower as it moves away from you. Although this example illustrates the effect for sound waves, the same effect occurs for all wavelengths (incuding light), the result being that visible wavelengths emitted by objects moving away from us are shifted towards the red part of the visible spectrum, or redshifted. And the faster they move away from us, the more they are redshifted. Thus, redshift is a reasonable way to measure the speed of an object (this, by the way, is the principal by which radar guns measure the speed of a car or baseball). Here's the point: When we observe the redshift of galaxies outside our local group, every galaxy appears to be moving away from us. We are therefore lead to the conclusion that our Universe is expanding. This is called hubble expansion, after Edwin Hubble, who discovered the phenomenon in 1929.

Here's a subtle point that you may have wondered about: If we look out into the Universe and every galaxy we see is moving away from us, doesn't that mean that we are at the center of the Universe? The obvious answer seems to be 'yes', but actually the answer is 'no'. Hopefully the following analogy will explain why. Image a loaf of raisin bread baking in the oven. As the bread bakes it gets bigger, and every raisin moves away from every other raisin. Now imagine that you are sitting on one of the raisins (ignore the heat of the oven). All the other raisins are moving away from you, so you might conclude that you are at the center of the loaf of bread. But if you were on a different raisin you would also see every raisin moving away from you and would also conclude that you are at the center of the loaf. The same thing is happening in the Universe. No matter where you are in the Universe, every galaxy you see is moving away from you. That's why astrophysicists say that you shouldn't talk about the center of the Universe; there really is no center of the Universe.

The oscillatory Universe model claims that the Universe started with a big bang, and that it is currently expanding. Eventually, however, the expansion will slow, stop, and then the Universe will begin to contract. The contraction will continue until all of the mass of the Universe is contained in a singularity, a process known as the big crunch. The singularity then undergoes a big bang, and the process begins afresh. Although we shall discuss reasons why this is probably not the case, it does explain what happened before the big bang.

Top three reasons to believe big bang cosmology
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
Cosmic Microwave Background
Hubble Expansion
Current Big Questions in Cosmology
Is the Universe Closed?
The question of whether the Universe will collapse in a big crunch or continue expanding forever hinges on knowing the density of the Universe. Density is defined as mass divided by volume. One can measure the density of the universe by observing the local group of galaxies and assuming that the Universe is all the same. One can also calculate the density required such that the Universe will eventually stop expanding. That density is called the critical density, and the ratio of the observed density to the critical density is given by the Greek letter omega. If omega is less than one the Universe will continue expanding until it is so large that it dies a cold death. If omega equals one the Universe will eventually stop expanding but will not collapse. In this case the Universe will also die a cold static death. But, if omega is greater than one, then the Universe is doomed to collapse under it's own gravitational mass, and will die a hot, fiery death in a big crunch. But don't worry, the ultimate fate of the Universe is atleast ten billion years away.

Omega (Density Ratio) Fate of the Universe
Less than One Open; Eternal Expansion, Cold Death
One Flat; Cold Static Death
Greater than One Closed; Big Crunch, Hot Death

For theoretical reasons, cosmologists believe that omega = 1. Unfortunately, attempts to measure omega yield results of about 0.1.

What is the Universe made from?
When astrophysicist Vera Ruban looked at Galaxies, she noticed a curious problem. She expected that the outer parts of a galaxy would move slower than the inner parts. But she found that this is not the case. The rotation curves of galaxies (a graph of the radius of a galaxy versus rotational speed) is flat, meaning that the outer parts move at the same speed as the inner parts. Large amounts of mass would account for the unexpected speed, but we don't see the mass that should be there.


To aid your understanding of this, think of how planets revolve around the Sun in our solar system. Mercury (the closest planet to the Sun) zips around the Sun in 88 days, but it takes the furthest planet, Pluto, 248 years to orbit the Sun. If there were a solid sphere of mass between the Sun and Pluto, than Pluto's orbital period would be the same as Mercury's. No one is suggesting that galaxies are actually solid spheres of matter, but there must be more mass in these galaxies then we can see. Because we can't see it, the mass is called dark matter.

Dark matter may account for up to 90% of the Universe's total mass. Bernard Sadoulet, who leads a search for dark matter at theCenter for Particle Astrophysics has stated that "Not only can we not see what most of the Universe is made of, we aren't even made of what most of the Universe is made of!" What did he mean by this? Scientists tend to categorize everything and matter is no different. The matter you are familiar with, matter composed of neutrons and protons, is called baryonic matter. Non-baryonic matter also exists, but is generally difficult to detect. Professor Sadoulet's experiment is looking for exotic, non-baryonic particles called WIMPs. WIMP stands for Weakly Interacting Massive Particle. There is a great deal of theoretical work which suggests that WIMPs exist and probably account for a large fraction of dark matter.

If you don't believe that WIMPs exist, you aren't alone. But some sort of exotic non-baryonic dark matter is required for omega = 1. Big bang nucleosynthesis limits the total number of baryons to be a fraction of the Universes total mass. And since there are compelling reasons to believe big bang nucleosythesis, and also that omega = 1, one is led to the conclusion that there must be exotic non-baryonic dark matter. Note the use of the word exotic. Neutrinos are another type of non-baryonic particle, but are not considered exotic. Neutrinos do exist, in huge numbers, but all known neutrinos have zero mass. The search continues for neutrinos with mass, but a massive neutrino is unlikely to completely account for the flat nature of galactic rotation curves. Hence, an exotic class of non-baryonic dark matter particle must exist if WIMPs do not.

There are several candidates for baryonic dark matter. MACHOs (Massive Compact Halo Objects) are objects about the size of Jupiter. Jupiter is quite massive, but like all planets, does not emit any light of its own; it only reflects sunlight. Although we can see Jupiter quite well from Earth, chances are that someone looking at our solar system from any far distance would not be able to see Jupiter. So, it is reasonable to assume that there are Jupiter-sized objects in other solar systems that we cannot see. By a technique known as micro-lensing, several MACHOs have already been found. VMOs (Very Massive Objects) are about 100 times more massive than our Sun, which makes them very heavy indeed. They are likely to be found in the form of black holes. By the way, in case you're wondering whether the existence of many Earth-sized objects might account for all the dark matter, bear in mind that Jupiter is roughly 300 times more massive than Earth. Thus you would need so many Earth-sized objects that the galaxy would be littered with them.

A Golden Age for Cosmology
These are exciting times for cosmologists. New telescopes, space missions, and experiments are generating data at an awesome rate, and new experiments are going online almost daily. The early part of the twenty-first century promises to be an amazing time for astrophysicists. And hopefully, we'll find answers to some of the big questions.

[Woody Wood]

Damn, where did this poll go? Anyway, COLUMBUS, THE C.O. SLUGS ARE IN THE HOUSE AGAIN! EAST SIDE!

[Andy Gehle]

I have no idea, Woody. I just went with it.
Plus any time you get the chance to mix in the phrase "Cosmic Microwave".....well, that's a good day!!!!;)
Well done, my brotha from anotha mutha.

[countyroad]

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[Woody Wood]

I heard that Andy, I guess it's cool to throw a twist on things. Oh and by the I'm from Washington D.C. but now live in Columbus, OH. So once again, THE COLUMBUS SLUGS ARE IN THE HOUSE! EAST SIDE!

[Kenneth]

defaince,oh and that.s good hunting too,

[MASHUNTER18]

Marengo, Morrow county,



Also hunt morrow, deleware counties. Gun hunt all week in harrison county.....

[prduffy]

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[prduffy]

Where in NW Ohio do you hunt? I hunt in Swanton and hunting has been decent this year.

Ray - I've been hunting LaSuAn for the past several years.

Outstanding spot, but keep coming up dry. Got a big 10 point a few years back, but someone else recovered him :rolleyes:

My hunting buddy lives in Sylvania as well.

[COLUMBUSBIGBUCK]

Just north of Columbus. The hunting has been good alot of does and small bucks. Would have been very happy with one of them not to mention. But my 10 pointer came 15 yards broadside so I couldnt pass him up.

[all4abuck]

Live in Medina but hunt SE Ohio (Marietta, Belpre)

[TomC1426]

Chesapeake, I hunt Wayne National Forest