I can’t be the only one who thoroughly dislikes using any scope at max magnification. On any scope, from a 3-9x to a 5-25x, the only times I ever use the max zoom is to zero my rifle. The eye box becomes too tight and FOV too small, so tracking my impact becomes much more difficult. Even when I shoot out to 1000 yards, I rarely use over 15x on my 5-25x scope. I think the sweet spot for most scopes is somewhere in the middle zoom range thus I’m very predisposed to FFP.If you were using a 2.5-10x you could have easily set the scope to 10x on all of those animals and used the reticle, if you wanted. I guess we all hunt different. I had my NXS at 10x to kill a deer at 80 yards. If I am moving its at 4-6x. If I have time at all I will turn it to 10x.