Guess I'll be the one to skew the stats. I have 20/20 vision, heavily corrected, so maybe this plays a role. My longest shot is about 115-ish yards max, on whitetails only. Have almost exclusively hunted in shotgun or muzzleloader only areas. Longest available shot might be 175 yards.
I primarily stand hunt, but have successfully killed 3, that I can think of, still hunting. I used to carry my variable cranked all the way down, but in the last half a dozen years, realized I can "throw the gun to my shoulder" and instantly find a deer at 6X at close range, so now leave the X's a little off the very bottom.
Started with a Weaver K2.5X. Killed at least one, possibly two.
Wanted more power and variability, so I went to a Burris 1.5-6X. Killed the next half a dozen, all on 6X, except one at 1.5x.
Got a Leupold 3-9X and killed another half a dozen on 9X.
Had a Tasco Titan 4.5-18X and killed several more, on 18X- before the scope went kaput.
Nowadays, I use either a Leupold 4-12X or 4.5-14X and have killed several, several more, all on either 12X or 14X.
Thinking about it, I might put my Bushnell 4200 8-32X on this year.
