To quote the salty old general in the 1980's movie "Wargames" - "I wouldn't trust that overgrown pile of microchips any farther than I could throw it".

I'm sure it is a very accurate gun and has other good qualities. I just would never buy one - for that price you can get a really nice muzzleloader that you don't have to worry about moisture or wetness getting into the circuitry and shorting the whole thing out. Last year I was in a massive rainstorm with my ML - was like being in the middle of a tropical storm for an hour. The only way I could have gotten my rifle wetter would have been by dunking it underwater for a few minutes. I went back to the cabin after it stopped raining to change the powder & primer, and I decided to see if the gun would shoot in its soaked condition. Much to my surprise, it fired (with a noticable lag time between when the primer went off & when the gun fired).

I just think that apart from the whole issue of the battery, you could be looking at a non-functional rifle if you would happen to get it really wet, whereas in a normal ML, all you gotta do is dry off the gun and put some fresh powder down the tube.