As mathman says, mount one and see. Personally I think their recoil-unworthiness is one of those Internet things.
No...it's a "mine broke after 80 or so rounds" kind of thing; it's a "the same things happened to a prominent gunwriter" kind of thing...and it's a "the maker of a very well known light weight rifle guessed which scope crapped on me before I told him" kind of thing"...we both know I'm not the only one it happened to.
I wouldn't plan a woodchuck hunt around a Swaro AV or Z3....let alone a once in a lifetime brown bear hunt.
