Sounds wonderful. Nice photos, nice area and that's a large cottontail.

It was 14 degrees on our friend's farm in MO today and we didn't see any squirrels during my first hunt with the new 28 gauge. Yes squirrels deserve a .22 but the farmer has cattle and requested scatterguns to be used. It was just nice to be out with my dad is a 4x cancer survivor. He introduced me to hunting 40 years ago and I'm still jazzed to have a day in the field with him.