Ep. 84: Remi's Top 5 Spring Hunts

winter's hunting seasons have come and gone. But don't worry, because there's plenty of great hunting adventures to still be had. No matter where you live. I think there's probably a few of these things you can hunt near you. So this week we're going to be doing something a little different. I'm gonna be doing a countdown of my top five favorite spring hunts and give you some tips for finding additional success. All also probably be sprinkling in a few

hunting stories along the way. So's that time. Bust out your boots, get your ticks spray, and your bino is ready because we're gonna be kicking this off with a Spring top five countdown. So here's how this is gonna work. I'm just gonna be counting down these hunts or in my order VH one style. So I suggest you place your bets now on what I'm gonna say is number one, and we'll see how close you get. So let's kick it off with number five right here. Number five on

the cutting the distance countdown is turkeys. That's probably where I just lost the audience. Everybody's turning it off. It's not that I don't like to hunt turkeys, but I think there's a lot of awesome things and other opportunities out there as well. I will say, though, when most people think about spring, hunting turkeys is a thing that comes to my I I love hunting turkeys. It's a it's a very fun hunt, especially because it's something where

you can be vocal, you can call him in. It is elk hunt esque in that way where you're calling to an animal. They're responding to a call, possibly a decoy. In many places across the country, they can be very challenging to hunt, and I would say this is the number one thing that most people chase in the spring and out west. I think that a lot of people hunt turkeys, but you don't find very many turkey hunters,

so it's just something you do. But there's also a lot of other things that we like to chase over the well. Last year, during some of my international travel was obviously canceled because of the pandemic, so I got back into turkey hunting and I realized, Wow, this is a very fun, addicting, awesome hunt. I figured I would give a couple of tips on some of the things.

Most my turkey hunting experiences is more big country, public land type hunts, and primarily I generally get to chase Miriams, which I don't think are the most challenging of turkeys, but I've chased rios and and other turkeys as well. I've yet to chase Easterns. I know, the guys that hunt Easterns really say how how difficult it is, and I think it's probably a lot because they get hunted a lot. But yeah, maybe they are a smarter bird

in the long run as well. You know, I know I can tell the difference between a Miriam's and a rio just in the way that they act, in the way that they respond to calls, in the way that they I would say, there's skittishness around hunters. But the cool thing about turkeys as man, their eyesight is so keen that you really have to get that concealment. Really practice keeping those movements limited, especially when they're coming in.

One of my favorite ways to turkey hunt because most of the places that I do turkey hunt are these larger areas, large tracts of public land or or big ground um. And you know, the key is to to find the birds. So I kind of approach it like most big game hunts, you know, step one getting into the field, doing my scouting and pay king out that habitat where I think they're going to be. The thing that I hone in on on bigger country is just

trying to find those roost trees. And I like to find country that holds turkeys but has like less places where turkeys could roost um, so I try to narrow that down. I generally find areas in more open or plans type country is where I can tend to gravitate towards. But I've also chased a few mountain birds as well, and that's a lot of fun. The mountain birds are a lot more spread out, So what I do in all these cases is just like I wouldn't. I load up my pack my binoculars, and I go and try

to find where they're roosting. I'm looking for that sign generally tracks, and then try to figure out pinpoint those roost trees. Um. It's it's very similar to whatevery most turkey hunters do wherever they're hunting places that have higher concentrations of turkeys or smaller private properties where there's a lot of turkeys. You know, you might already have those

roost trees pegged. In Western hunting scenarios and a lot of the turkey hunts that I've done, you know, it's public land as big areas, there's few birds, and it's a lot of miles in between those few birds. So it's a lot of looking for sign, looking for those good roost trees. I found that in areas of pine, a lot of piny areas, when I come across a big oak tree, even in the mountains or whatever, or a cotton wood or some other kind of tree, I

can find turkeys. They're more regularly roosting than in big pines, but I have in Montana and other places seen they were roost in the more open trees like the ponderosas uh, And then I've been in like eastern Nevada and you see them up in aspens or cotton woods and then occasionally in a juniper tree. But they tend to like those trees where they've got a little bit better view and feel a little more spaced out bigger branches. So when I'm out in the daytime, I'm actually scouting for

that roost tree. And that's a really good way to kind of hone in on uh. Take a big piece of area and you go, okay, um, what am I looking for? First? And I like to try to find those roost trees in the mountains. I found them more on ridge tops than anywhere else. So I'll follow the ridges and look for good trees that say, oh, that's a good possible roost tree. Then I go over to

it and look for signed. If I see that sign, then I know if fresh, especially fresh sign, then that's where I'm going to try to look and try to scout that out in the evening or even maybe go through that area in the morning and try to hone in on birds. I really like to gobble towards turkeys because I use it as a locator gobble. But in like bigger areas, I've found that I actually have a lot of success trying to get birds to me. I use my voice to gobble. I know some people think, oh,

if you're gobbling, like it's dangerous. The places I'm at I've never actually seen other hunters, so it's it's a lot different than where most people turkey hunt. Um, And that's the way that I like to do it. So I I just throw out a voice gobble, try to get those gobbles back early in the morning, right at that sunrise. Then I move in, I set up, and I just do my standard turkey hunting thing like everybody else. Try to call them in to my my setup after

the flydown, and that tends to work really well. But that's that's kind of the way that I think and approach like big country turkey hunting. And now, if you're a die hard turkey hunter, if turkeys is number one on your list, it's really fun. I mean, you know, I talked about going out and exploring other areas. Try a big public land style turkey hunt. I think you'll

enjoy it, and there's probably something near you. You know, you might not have to go as far there is a lot of great opportunity for turkey hunters out west because I think that they actually get hunted less because there's other things to chase this time of year, and we're gonna jump into those other things as our countdown continues. All right, we're at number four. I want everybody right now to throw out a guess of what number four is. And I promised you're probably gonna be wrong. If you

get this, you need to let me know. Kudos to you. Number four in our Spring hunt Countdown is fish talking about well, any kind of thing you can shoot with your bow or spear. I know it. That one seems pretty random. You're like, man, that's not what I was thinking for Spring Hunting Countdown. And the turkey guys, the of that didn't already tune out, are now turning the

dial to the next podcast. But wait, just wait, there's more. Um. I think that uh, well, bow fishing is included in this, so I kind of thought I'm gonna lump it all together, spear fishing and bow fishing. If you're near an ocean. I think spear fishing is a very cool experience. It's underwater hunting, and it's that spring summertime when other things start to slow down, that I can go away and add some different kind of protein to my diet. For me,

I primarily live off of wild game. I never go by meat that I bring into my house if I'm out and about or whatever restaurant or or someone's house. Yes, of course I'll eat um beef or pork or whatever. I do add pork in to my diet just for that extra bit of fat. And I do grind beef and pork fat into a lot of my wild game burger for that added fat. But the one thing that I love and I try to always seek is some kind of fresh fish. Spear fishing is a great way

to get that protein. It is kind of specialized in the fact that you need some some gear spear gun. I like to use a three prong which is just a a sling with a rubber band in a post, and I'll shoot some smaller reef fish with that, and then you know, the gun for some larger fish as well. Spear Fishing is a great way to just kind of add that fish to the diet, and the springtime is a good time to do it. But another thing that's maybe a little bit closer to more people. Is is

bow fishing. It's something that I like to do this time of year for us. It's mostly carp where I live. They start to spawn as that water temperature starts to move up, and that gets them out of the deeper water and into the shallows. It's a really good time because you can either do it from shore, from a small boat, or even just waiting in some flats. Anytime I can get my bow out is really fun for me.

I like to use my recurve for bow fishing. It's great for that instinctive practice, and it's a great way if you're thinking about getting in to some form of bow hunting, a way to actually get out and shoot at targets and have a good time before that fall season comes around and before you're really investing that time and energy into a big game hunt. It's something where you can get lots of shots. You can practice settling the pin in and taking a shot at something and

have fun doing it. A lot of the places that I go there overrun with invasive carp, so you're also doing a service to some of the waterways and some of the fisheries in that area. I know the place that I'm going to focus on this spring. It was a pretty good fishery and somehow carp got in there, and the last three to four years they've just exploded. There's thousands of carp. It's stunted the growth of other game fish. I mean, it's it's actually kind of ruined

the fishery. So it's a good way to kind of help knock down some of the invasive numbers and get your bow out and get some practice. One thing that you want to think about if you're if you've never been bow fishing, you know, the water ref refracts the way that you're looking at everything. So if you if you're looking at something at the surface that's not actually where it is, think about putting your finger in, Like get a glass of water and stick your finger in

there and look at it. It's like your fingers always moved over looking at it through the water. One thing you want to think about is just always aim a little lower. I know that with spear fishing, things kind of tend to look larger, closer, whatever, But you can still aim the gun in a in a way that seems fairly natural, and your brain kind of will start

to compensate and adjust for that. A couple of the specialized pieces of gear that you'll need for bow fishing are a bow fishing arrow, which is just a really heavy arrow. The reason it's heavy so it's it's not going to be exactly on your regular sits with your regular arrow, but it's heavy so it doesn't go as far. It has that energy to shoot through the water and not refract when it hits the water, Uh, go through the carp and not necessarily bear you're hoping not to

bury into the mud too much. That's one of the reasons that I use my recurve bow for bow fishing a lot, because with the modern compound bows, I've got it cranked up quite a bit because I've I've had problems where you shoot your arrow at a carp and then it's buried way into the bottom of the lake and can be very difficult to get out. But bow fishing set up generally has that and then a reel

of some kind. Um I like the real it's more fishing real style where I can just to remember to click it open so the bails open, because you do not want to shoot that arrow with that bail closed, and then if you've got the opportunity to get to some ocean water or um in Montana, one cool one is you can there's a few lakes where you can shoot invasive pike with a spear gun and spearfish for pike, and the springtime is the best time to do it.

Water is cold, but they're the reds. Their cruising those shallows a little bit and they can be a little bit easier to target um that time of year. If that's something that you're thinking about doing UM, I definitely suggest that it's a lot of fun. Spear fishing is a lot of fun. I would highly suggest you know, doing a free diving course of some kind. I did a lot of free diving before knowing how to free dive,

and I did everything wrong. I would I would hold my breath, I would dive down, I would hang out at the bottom long time, and then I would let my air out as I as I went up. One thing you want to think about is just always keeping your air in. You don't want to let your air out. That oxygen's what's going to keep you alive. UM. And it's crazy because humans do have this mammalian dive reflex where your body naturally kind of things change in your spleen.

You're least more red blood cells and um, and you're actually able to utilize that oxygen better. Just like the same dive REFLEXX that's in whales, that's in otters, that's in all may amals that live in the ocean. Humans have that same dive reflects and so it's pretty cool. It's a very natural thing to to be able to dive down. But it can also be very dangerous, so you want to make sure that you know the process, go with somebody else and um and keep it safe.

But it is a really fun way to hunt underwater, and I highly suggest it. Number four. All right, we are at number three. Number three, I'm gonna have to give to the wild pig. I mean, who doesn't love pork and wild pork? I love wild pork. Um. There's nearly, I mean almost every state there is some opportunity available to hunt pigs. I know. Um, there there's a couple of states, you know, more the more are desert states

don't necessarily have it. I don't. There's a few in like random places in Nevada that mostly on private land, and Arizona has have Alina's but necessarily wild pigs. I know they say there's some in some places, but good luck finding them. However, most places across the US do have wild pigs or somewhere to chase wild pigs within a state border or something away. Um, there's a lot of ways people chase wild pigs. I mean, uh, and and I've found it in many different ways. But I

mean there's guys, you can hunt pigs with dogs. You can hunt pigs by baiting a trap and then um, actually just like taking that pig in and feeding it and then butchering it. Uh. Night vision it seems to be pretty popular recently. Night vision or thermal imaging scope. Guys hunt them from helicopters with a r S. But honestly, I think the best way to hunt pigs is spot and stock, and I love to do it spot and stock with a bow. Um, one of the tactics that I use. Um. I've hunted pigs in a lot of

different places, lots of different countries even and uh. One of the things one of my favorite ways to hunt pigs is to go out on those hot days and look for those like really swampy creek bottom areas where the pigs are gonna be laying up. Pigs get hot, you know, if you think about it, even in the springtime. I like chasing pigs in the spring because it's not as hot as it might be in the summer, and

it's not during that fall season. I also really like chasing pigs in the spring because I feel like the meats a little bit better. It's kind of like spring bears where they get all that that region, that new growth and the first part of a green up, when those plants first sprout out, that's when you're getting all

the nutrients um later in the year. You know, you you don't necessarily like in places where you might have a fruit crop or a mass crop like acorns or I don't necessarily think acorns make the meat taste very good, but um any other kind of nut uh, you don't necessarily have that like in the springtime. But what you do have is you have that consistent green up, so it's like a high quality grass. The pigs will root in that, but they'll also get a little bit more nutrient.

I feel like the meats always just better in the spring in my opinion, And actually I don't mind um pork in the in the summer as well, although you do run into some other problems about getting the meat out other things. But I think that with that green up, they're less likely to be feeding on dead animals that they might be in the fall time um or other

times a year winter. So I really enjoy the meat the springtime, and also it's like a great time of year to get out and maybe get it yourself into a hunt where you can test out any new gear, where you can get some stocks in the wild pig is like just an awesome animal to chase with a bow, but you know, it's great with a rifle, muzzleloader, pistol,

doesn't really matter what your weapon of choices. But I think that if you're getting into bow hunting, especially, you know, there's a lot of people listen to a few previous podcasts getting into bow hunting. Man, if you can get out on a wild pig hunt, it's an awesome time there. Their sense of smell is really good, but their eyes

sights not so great. They provide a lot of opportunity to get close um or if you're going if you're a bow hunt, are getting into traditional boon hunting, Actually, just on a recent trip, went out and got a small little pig with my new recurve, and it's just a really good way to get in, get close, get some practice, and also bring home some awesome meat. It's a fun hunt. So one thing that I like to do, one of my favorite ways to hunt them is middle

of the day hunting. And what I do is, you know, pigs are very like they can be nocturnal, very crepuscular, moving in the mornings and the evenings, and then they just go lay up all day if it's hot out. One thing that I found as they go into those creek bottoms and they kind of create these little wallows, so they'll just wallow like other animals like elk or whatever.

So I the first thing I do is I start following these little thick creak things and I start to find those wallows where I'm seeing a lot of sign um. I'll do that, you know, starting in the mornings or whatever, and then I'll kind of make a note drop some pins on my map of where these wallows where these pigs are concentrating, and then in the middle of the day, I still hunt through there and I just kind of

creep around. I use my binoculars, even close range, because a lot of times you might have like a really dark colored pig laying in a really dark hole. They'll be tucked in. So I want to know where I think like these these good wallows and these good spots are, and then I get the wind right and then slowly

sneak in there. A lot of times they're sleeping or whatever, but they're gonna be close shots that I either wait for them to stand up or you know, sneak in, get a good arrow in there, and that's a lot of fun. That's a really good way to do it, and a good way to kind of narrow down, especially if you're hunting maybe bigger public tracks. There's some places in California where there's some wild pigs, you know, on

more public type ground. It can be few and far between compared to some of the private stuff, but there are there are plenty of places where you can get in and use that tactic of kind of hunting those little midday wallows to getting in on some wild pork. Here we go in the countdown. We are now at number two, number one, and number two really gave me. I just had to go back and forth and you know, it just depends on when you talk to me what

I think. I've got it written out how I had it, and I'm almost thinking about changing it, but I'm gonna go with number two. My favorite spring hunt free range exotics. So what those are. There's populations of animals in the US and other places around the world that are not native here. They've been either released for the reason of hunting the purpose hunting, or escaped somehow, and they are

really fun big game hunts. The meat is generally incredible, the experience is incredible, and oftentimes the cool thing about free range exotics are the seasons can be um almost year round in most places, but also some of those animals during the springtime is actually an ideal time to hunt them before it gets hot, before you know other fall hunts kick off. It's a really good time to hunt. So I think I'll break down some of my favorite

ones that I do a lot. Maybe you've seen videos or follow on my social media, you'll see that I end up chasing access to your a lot. There's a few reasons for that one. There have to be probably one of the best tasting wild game meats out there. It rivals elk in the fact that it's got a very mild but awesome flavor. It's very tender. They're like even just for the size of the deer, their backstrap

is quite large. There's some animals that you're like, I mean asiatic water buffalo in Australia, giant giant animal, their backstrap is very small compared to the size of how like, you just wouldn't think even a bison backstrap for their body size isn't as big as you think it should be. Yet you get an access to here and you're like, holy out, this is like a cow elk sized backstrap. It feels like just deep and wide and like awesome kind of meat that right there is it makes it

worth the trip in itself. Now. The other thing is it's a species of deer that is extremely fun to hunt, so it puts it up there high in the countdown. But there's also a lot of other free range exotics, including our Dad, which is becoming very popular. I would always call that the poor man sheep hunt, but it's getting pretty freaking expensive now. Um. However, there are some really good over the counter options in New Mexico to

chase out Dad. Uh. They're few and far between. It can be a very difficult hunt in some ways, but that over the counter our Dad tag is a is a fun hunt and it's essentially like having any sheep hunt that you can find anywhere else, but it's over the counter. I highly suggest that that's a really good hunt to look into. Texas has I would say if you're thinking about like free range exotics, the mecca everybody

knows is Texas and US. There are a lot of like high fenced places in Texas, but there's a lot of animals that have either escaped from those high fence places or been released or whatever that are roaming free in Texas. One thing that I find funny is that elk are considered a free range exotic that can be

hunted year round in the state of Texas. The unfortunate party about Texas is most of it is locked up as private, but there are places that you can find, you know, where maybe you can pay a trespass fee, you could do a guided type thing, which is always an option, And then there are a few draw hunts that you'll see. I apply for some of these hunts every year. Um that include some wildlife management areas where you can hunt on uh you just gotta draw it. Now.

Another great state for some of these free range exotics as the state of Hawaii. Various islands, Maui, molakail and I all have access here. Maui's primarily private, and you know, I get a lot of questions about hunting Hawaii where to go. Lennai is primarily private or is all private, but there are some hunting opportunities there, you know, for fees and other things. And then Molakai has a lot of private but also there's some other areas that you

can hunt on. Pretty much all the islands there's somewhere that you can hunt. And then other islands like Kauai have some goats and pigs and other things some other free range exotics. The goats are one that in Hawaii do a lot of damage to a lot of the native plant species, to a lot of the native wildlife, and they explode in populations. That's a really good one to get in on a hunt on um. It's especially

great for bow hunting. I kind of think of it as like a good way to get good archery stocks practice in a scenario where there's a lot of opportunity, and actually I think billies are pretty disgusting, but um nannies or young goats actually really good eating. One of my favorite ways to cook on my kind of marinate them in guaviaectar and then cook them up into like slow cookingto like tacos and stuff like that. Beer tacos

are always awesome. So free ranging autics takes the number two spot, I would say one of my favorite tactics for hunting anything in this like spring season or these exotics, as you really just have to kind of figure out the behavior of the species you're going after, whether it's a out dad, whether it's a axis dear, whether it's a feral goat um, understanding the types of habitat that they like and then where to look for him. That's key,

you know. The access dear they do like that thicker cover. They travel in in big groups, and they like that more jungle terrain, whereas the ow dad like that more sheep country that those rocky bluffs, those outcroppings. They're very nomadic and they're necessarily tied to water. So picking your tactics as well based on that species. If I'm going out dad, I'm gonna say that is a major That is probably one of the number one optics intensive hunts

you could ever go on. It's gonna be sitting down and looking for an animal that really blends in covering a lot of country with your optics and your eyes. And then on the flips. I the way that I like to hunt access DearS. I like to still hunt. I like to move through areas until I find the

concentrations in the areas that they're at. They can be fairly patternable because they're a herd animal, they kind of move with the herd for safety, So you can kind of figure out where that sign is where they're at by doing a lot of still hunting, a lot of moving around, and then focusing in on those areas where they're concentrated. All right, now we are down to the number one spot, the king of spring, and this spot

is gonna go to drum roll, please spring bears. Um there is I think for me or a lot of people Western hunters, you know, when we think about spring, the reason that turkeys hits number five on the list is because we have other things to hunt, and that number one primary thing that people get to chase would be bears during the spring. There's spring seasons in quite a few different states. Many offer over the counter tags.

There are some states out west and only offer a fall hunt, but Idaho, Montana, Wyoming has some spring action, Utah has some spring hunts. There's a few good spring hunts out there where you can just pick up a tag over the counter and head out and hunt. One reason that I think bears kind of become the king of spring is because, you know, spring bear hunting is a very difficult endeavor to kind of really figure out,

especially when it comes to spot and stock. There's lots of different tactics for hunting bears, So let's just break it down like this. Here are the three main hunting tactics for bears. It would be spotting stock, it would be with hounds, or be baiting. Not all states offer all those options. So some states like Montana it's spotting stock only. Idaho offers spot and stock, hounds and baiting, and then there's you know, states with other combinations of whatever.

For most people, spring bear hunting generally tends to be spotting stock. I did a two part series last season you can go back and find about the spring bear hunting tactics, and I know that those have helped a lot of people kind of try to crack the code on spring bears. One thing that makes bears kind of at the top of the list for me is, you know, actually hunting him in the fall can be a lot

more difficult than hunting him in the spring. Bears are are concentrated on food sources, and so figuring out those food sources and like planning your hunt around matt as things progress throughout the spring is a good way to hone now on bears. But another really cool thing about spring bears is just the terrain in the country there, and it can be a mountain type hunt. It can

be a very fun glass ng optics intensive hunt. I kind of think of it very similar to like a mountain goat hunt early in the spring, because I like to get up in the high alpine and look for those new shoots when they're coming out of emerging out of their dens and hitting those first kind of bits of grass. And then as the spring progresses, I kind of change my tactics to the places I look and kind of go more off those logging roads and those

other things. But it's also a great way to get out at this time of year and get into some areas where you might want to consider hunting in the fall. I use a lot of my spring bear hunting as

scouting new areas. Every time I go on a spring bear hunt, I just kind of think of an area where like this this year, if I go out, I'm gonna be picking a spot where it's like, oh, I have never hunted elk in this spot, so I'm gonna go scout it out for spring bears and then kind of start to learn the area for other hunts later on as well. I think in my mind as just a Western hunter when it comes to thinking about hunts, and the springtime bears is just at the top of

my mind, at the top of the list. It's an awesome hunt, and to be honest, spring bear meat is excellent. It's got a little bit of fat, but it's not too fatty, not too greasy. They're generally eating that new growth of grass and other things that for all intents and purposes the beginning of the spring, they're primarily herbivores. Sometimes they'll get in the rock sides and try to

get a little squirrels and stuff. I've seen a gobble up moths on Avalanche slide, but for the most part, they're really hammering dandylions really uh really nutrient buds of pine and or sorry, um furs and other things just like the first green, high nutrient growth. That's what they're getting because they're trying to pack on weight after that hibernation. So bear meat is really good in the spring. I've never run across the spring bear that I didn't like.

I have had some fall bear that I thought was a little bit like okay, But when it comes to bear meat, springtime, in my opinion, is the best. So there's a lot of things going for it, and that's why it hits my number one spot. I hope you guys enjoyed that countdown. It was just kind of fun to put together some some things that I was thinking and thought it might be something fun switch up a little bit and you know, kind of kind of get people's minds shifted on some hunts coming up some things

in the near future. One thing I want to do for the podcasts for the rest of this month is I kind of got this idea of will make it based on the idea of train. So this month's podcast, I've got a great pack training program planned out where you can train like you're hunting, and these weighted rucks will get you ready for any hunt this fall. I get a ton of questions of how do I get ready or live in flat terrain or I just want to make sure that I'm in elk shape prepared for

the pack out. What are things that I can do to stay fit to be ready for that? So I've got some ideas for you guys for that. And then I think the other thing that I'd like to train when I think about a hunting hole and what what makes success, being able to spot things is always high up on that list. So We're gonna sharpen our eyes and I'm gonna lay out a way to obtain eagle vision in the upcoming podcast. So feel free to tag

me reach out on social media. You know, if you're listening today, if it's a Thursday, you're right in there on the first people listening. As soon as it's uploaded. It might be kind of fun just to make your own list to day if you if you want, maybe like put your top five spring hunts or fall hunts or whatever and tag me in it. I'd love to

see where things right for you. You know, one thing I didn't actually put on my top five list was fishing because we generally talked about hunting, but fishing is pretty high up on that list. When it comes fall. Once that weather starts warming up, you know, I really love to bust out the fly rod or or grab a bass rod, had some water, some local lakes, some rivers, a lot of rivers before they get blown out with

the runoff. But man, it's an awesome time a year to just get out and recreate and do some fun stuff. But feel free to tag me in those. I'd love to see your guys top five lists and today if you If you do that, I'll try to see those and share some of my Insta story and then feel free if if you completely disagree with my list, tell me why turkeys should be at the top. I'm I'm all ears um have. I hope you guys have a great rest of your day and I will catch you all next week. M