At what point do you quit beating a scope up and consider it good enough. In real life, nobody will drive nails with a scope….
I have broken a lot of scopes.
That is why it’s useful for scopes to be stress-tested beyond what they are expected to experience in the field; to find out at what point they fail, and hopefully that point is well past your expected use. You may not be driving any nails with your scope, but in the odd event that you slip in an icy creek bed and tomahawk your rifle into the rocks, your scope may just take it without a bobble.
Similarly, I like to know that my bolt actions have a failure point north of 100k psi, so that when I’m loading to 60k psi I can do so with peace of mind.
