Thread: Pros and cons of scope magnification.

I started my hunting using vee sights, then apeture sights and did pretty well with them except as night fell. Big step up around 1965-6 to a bushnell 2 1/2 power on my cut down smle. I shot tahr and chamois out to 400 yards with that little scipe. Then went to 7*61 and a leupold fixed 4 power with tapered crosshairs, meat hunting in spare time and really thought I was made! Young eyeballs never needed anything bigger; heck, if the cross was on target or held higher at long range the bullet still went where it was meant to. The 4*32 scope let in maximum light that the human eye can use, mush ad the pecar 6*42 could. Then varie x scope came along and I wondered why I had diffuiculty sighting in low light eith all the extra power.
Took a while understand the light rule of 7; in other words in order to get enough equivalent light to the eye at 10x the big front lens had to be 70mm!
So in low light the best you can get is 8x with a 56mm objective.
So, what is the point of a scope of more than 7 or 8x mag? Most military scopes arent more than 10x, likely for the same reason.
Are we hunters just suckers to marketing hype and not really looking for top grade vari-power scopes in the 2-10* 50 size, or 3-6*44 size?
What are your thoughts?