Rob....I was thinking of you when I wrote that....and I think that's great. When I think back to some of my encounters....I just don't see how I could have done what you do. My '06 8-pointer......was on a dead run two times I came to full draw. Ranging him would have been pointless. He never stopped. When he did finally stop to work a scrape.....I shot him. I took a guess (that was wrong....but off by 6 yds). It all worked out. If I'd waited to range him.....he could have been gone. He was 2-3yds from the park entrance.

NO WAY I range the first buck I ever killed. He was looking right at me.

Last year's 8-pointer.....hell he was chasing a doe, too....and I "maaaa'd" him to a stop on my second attempt to stop him. No time to range him, either. I don't know the circumstances of the animals you've killed......but I think the fact you range them all is commendable.