Hunting with a suppressor - concerns about fragility of suppressor or another thing to go wrong?

[EastHumboldt]

I'm relatively new to the suppressor game. I have one on a 30-06 and another on a 223. I'm trying to decide whether to cut and thread a new 6.5 CM.

I haven't yet hunted on a real hunt with the suppressors. I have to admit that I'm a little concerned that adding another item to the shooting system introduces another failure point or something that can be damaged while on the hunt. Since I'm new to this extra piece of metal hanging on the end of the barrel, I feel like I need to baby the suppressor. I don't want to put a wrap on the suppressor because that's even more weight on the end of the rifle and the bare suppressor already is a bit in my sight picture on low magnification.

As much as this site focuses on concerns of failures in the field from dropped scopes and other parts of the shooting system, I can't seem to find a lot about concerns of "failures" of a suppressor in the field. For example, a dropped rifle that dents/damages a suppressor. Or, just banging the suppressor against something in normal handling, it doesn't need to be a straight up drop.

Is this something I need to be concerned about? Do you feel the need to baby the suppressor to protect it or it's threaded connection to the barrel (I direct connect)?

I don’t currently use a suppressor. But twice at the range I’ve seen someone damage theirs by not threading it on securely. After a few shots the “finger tight” setting worked loose and one guy actually stopped the firing line to walk a few feet down range and retrieve his. So my real life take away is they’re pretty tough unless you let em get loose and get a baffle strike.