Over the past 15 years we’ve received notes, emails and
calls about the EyePal aperture diameters and the depth of field they produce.
The communications are from those afflicted with illnesses and the resulting
effects on their vision.
In one case, despite all the attempts at a lens solution by
his eye care specialist, the gentleman still couldn’t see what he needed when
aiming his rifle. We met him at the Springfield Gun Show in 2009 and at that
time he was 64 years old. He said that he had a distorted cornea since birth.
Using our Benjamin Sheridan air rifle sporting a ghost ring
aperture and aiming at a target 10 meters away, he said that both sights and
the target were in the blur. With an EyePal Rifle applied on his glasses in his
line of sight, he said “WOW – you tricked my eye! How did you do that?” I said, “I didn’t do it!
I just put an aperture in your sightline. The aperture did it.”
He bought the EyePal Rifle kit and that’s the last we saw or
heard of him.
There you have it, a shooter with a life-long vision challenge
and just a small comment about his reaction to his new sight picture.
But wait – there’s more than meets the eye with another
shooter, a veterinarian and a shotgun champion. He call one day last year and
started the conversation saying his diabetes changes his vision and is not
corrected by his prescription. Would the EyePal help in any way? Having a good
number of customers with diabetes, I answered yes. After a few more calls
commenting on the larger diameter apertures I made for him, he said the he was
now well satisfied with the results of having a larger field of view complete
with depth of field and he was now back in championship form for competition.
His experiences with the larger EyePal aperture fostered and
produced the EyePal Shotgun kit for the ever-growing number of shotgun hobbyists.
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