Recoil effects on electronic optics with shotguns

[CowboyTim65]

Tennessee just gave hunters the green light for night hunting for coyotes and bobcats. One of the restrictions is shotgun only and no single projectiles. My question is, if I mount a thermal or night vison scope on my shotgun, is the difference in recoil from a rifle vs shotgun going to damage my scope?

 

[wildflights]

Pulsar rates their scopes for shotgun use. No other thermal brand does.

 

[crapshoot]

Instead of thermal, how about nvg and nv compatible red dot like an eotech?

 

[1stN74]

I have a Pulsar Talion XQ38 for which I have mounted it on my 12 gauge, it could handle the recoil but my eyes couldn't. The eye relief is about 2 inches and with wearing
glasses doesn't give me much room for error as far as getting scoped, you can shoulder it as much as you can but with a 1 1/2 oz. -2 oz. load especially on second follow up shot
beware. I have moved scope to my 223 and went back to red dot and red light mounted on shotgun and thermal scanner.