At One time, Bushnell gave the flashlight that goes with the scope for free.

What you have to think about is - that there is only low light conditions the first 20 minutes and the last 20 minutes of hunting - where the law says Dawn to Dusk.

If the crosshairs were bright, it would take away from the low light in the woods that you were trying to combat with the glow in the dark cross hairs.

It was not intended to be used as a poaching scope that you could shoot in the dark.

It's not night vision, and it isn't battery operated - like some of the earlier models that are now illegal - where I hunt deer.

The way I read the manual, you shine the light through the scope before you leave camp or your vehicle and it should last until you get to your stand.

By the time it gets light out, it will have faded away and will work like a regular old scope.

Since my days of Weaver K4 scopes, I have not had a problem seeing the cross hairs in any of my more modern scopes. If it is too dark out to see, then it is too dark out to shoot. I don't need to shoot a deer that bad.