I have been shooting my Rifles with scopes on them for exactly 60 (sixty!) years now - and those Rifles number well up into the hundreds!
I have never "epoxied" the scope bases to any of my MANY scoped Rifles over those decades.
VG, no one had ever used penicillin prior to 1928. In that year would you have stamped your feet and declared it unnecessary because in the previous 60 years you didn't think you'd needed it?
Of course it could be your hunting style isn't particularly hard on rifles and scopes... epoxy on scope bases is a lot like the proverbial handgun - "you don't need it until you need it badly."
Redundancy is always a good thing in mechanical systems...
