What if they are all standing broadside? I say it because it happens quite often. I don' t know about you guys but as a bowhunter I' m used to sneaking around or sitting on a good vantage point while rifle hunting. That means usually I see elk before they know I' m there. (At least cows)

Last year I was sneaking through some trees on the edge of a meadow. I peaked a small hill to see 5 cows grazing on the other side of the meadow. They didn' t know I was there. I had enough time to range them, pull out my shooting sticks, adjust my objective lens on my scope and pick out the cow I wanted. Once I had the scope on them I could actually see they varied in size by quite a bit.

2 years ago a group of about 10 cows comes around a corner and starts grazing on a meadow I was watching. Again picked out the one I wanted and dumped her.

3 years ago another hunter spooked a herd. They came busting over a hill only 70 yds from me and I had to make a decision a lot faster but there must have been 50-60 head.

Geez I' d say you guys need to sneak around a little more, you might get to actually pick your cow out instead of shooting the last one heading into the timber running from you.

Again a bull is a different story.