As an employer, the employees have a harder time stealing from you. As a customer, it's easier for them to copy my credit card number than take the rest of the cash from my wallet after I've left.
Yeah but if it comes down to it, I could probably beat up a wolf enough to make it leave me alone.
Not so much with a grizzly bear.
And while black bears are already out there and could beat me up, they're usually too scared to prove it.
Grabbing and twisting bare-handed to 1.5 ft-lbs is how direct thread silencers got the reputation of coming loose.
If you put any torque onto it with a wrench, it should be good.
At this point I'm pretty sure the entire drop test saga was a guerilla marketing campaign to help SWFA blow out all of their inventory of 1990s scopes before they close up and coast off into the sunset.