I'm not sure it was the battery that leaked inside my early Bushnell, but it sure was the condensation that along with that battery that made a mess of the inside of that battery compartment and corroded everything. Take any cold piece of metal into a warm cabin and you get condensation. That illuminated reticle scope was my first and last ever scope with a battery.

My other auto is a .45

The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory