New to ranged targeting question

Hi! Have only played melee specs my entire life. Trying out hunter for my first ranged spec and I’m confused by the combat targeting.

In melee, when a monster in the mob dies I am auto targeting to another target in the mob that I’m in combat with. With the hunter it does not automatically target another monster. He just says he doesn’t have a target and I have to tab target another one.

Am I doing something wrong? How do you guys go about this ?

I’ve been playing a hunter since cataclysm and I can tell that I’ve kept targetting a new enemy myself everytime an enemy dies.

I start with tab target, but if in pvp, I keybinded “target closest enemy player” and I’m using that one.

If that does not select the enemy I prefer to hit, I click on the nameplate myself.

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Your melee characters likely auto-target because they’ve been struck by an auto-attack.
Because you’re ranged you’re typically not being attacked as frequently.
I’ve always been Ranged and I’m used to manually targeting my enemies. I do not recall an auto-target system.