I agree with you all,if a rifle scope is designed to handle the recoil of some of the heavy magnums used for brown bear and dangerous game,I'm allmost certain that it will handle the recoil of any shotgun,I shot a 338 one time and I still remember it,and I'm sure that some rifles are a lot worse than it was,my 12 guage dont kick that bad with 3.5 inch mag loads.