I've had a few on very hard recoiling guns and never had an issue with the way the functioned or held zero. I did have a Bushnell trophy go bad on my slug gun.

In my experience they just have poor optical quality in most cases unless you get the top end ones, and they are not what I would call great.

As far as dependability I have not found they are any better or worse than any other scope in the same price range. The way most feel about BSA I feel about Barska. The one I owned was horrid. I would own a BSA before a barska, cheap simmons or tasco. But I would pick a bushnell over a BSA 9 out of 10 times simply because the optics are usually better.

And I wouldn't even put a Nikon pro staff in the catagory as a BSA so you did fine in my opinion.

Only my opinions though.

Paul