Sounds like you're gonna have a nice looong season to enjoy. Looking forward to your hunting stories and pics in the "Hunting Gate". :)
Last year was my first year of air gun small game hunting. I had such a blast that I put my bowhunting, which is my other passion, on the back burner and did practically nothing but the air gun small game hunting. I didn't even use any of my shotguns during the small game season, not even once, used the airguns exclusively,,,, and believe it or not I wound up putting more game in my freezer than in any previous small game season :)
Hunting with the air guns is just so challenging and so much fun, I just can't get enough of it.
Jeff