I don't go around using it like a baseball bat but i don't baby any of my guns. I have one on a truck gun that just bounces around on the back floor and gets banged off of trees and rocks sometimes running around shooting drills from cover and prone. Other than a couple scratches it is unphased, been somewhere in the neighborhood of a year now and it still shoots poa with absolutely no shift in zero. Just make damn sure to loctite all the screws, especially the ones holding the scope to the base. Also have one on a 15/22 since spring that one doesn't get beat nearly as much but it gets used alot by a 10 year old that's not really to concerned about dropping the thing by leaning precariously on things and it's been on the ground from falling onto stones, concrete, asphalt, dirt, the kitchen, garage, basement and living room floors. That one maintains zero to this day as well, probably has seen 20 batteries so far though because he also constantly forgets to turn it off.