EyePal wholesale distribution challege

We started to get interest in 2012 from PyramydAir, a wholesale Airgun distributor in Solon, Ohio who received an EyePal customer email referral asking them to stock EyePal products. That was the waterfall that prevailed over the next few years that expanded to a co-branding effort with Lyman Products Corporation, Middletown, CT. Their global marketing presence and distribution has helped our wholesale volume grow substantially.  We also have a distributor in the UK who also takes care of the EU marketplace. The EyePal product has global distribution but lacks major marketing support as we are quite small as a business. The Small Business Administration defines a “small business” as having up to 500 employees. The Resident Artist Studio LLC is known as a “Mom and Pop” and we don’t have a brick and mortar presence. We do business on the web as www.residentartist.com. EyePal has a webpage www.EyePalUSA.com where orders are received and shipped. We continue to receive domestic and international orders from all over the globe and we’ve quite pleased with results.

EyePal customer feedback is important

EyePal is definitely a customer-oriented feedback dependent product. Should you contribute to the feedback? I would and I do contribute honest reviews of products I purchase on Amazon. If you have a moment, Google ”EyePal Peep” to see what others think of being able to see what they haven’t seen in years, possibly ever.

Here’s a “Top critical review” currently listed in Amazon;

Top critical review

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2 people found this helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars well made, nice case. simple peep.

By Michial Celvion January 4, 2014

A little pricey for simple peeps that stick on. Nicely done peeps with a good holder. A peep can't really solve aging eyes completely. I used a +1.00 pair of safety glasses and put the peep on those. This brought the handgun sights in focus for my eye and the peep helped for the target at distance. After all, the sight picture at the gun is most critical. To see if this works for you prior to ordering, a peep in a piece of electrical tape would allow you to test the concept prior to ordering.

My comment is that all customer’s eyes are different just like our fingerprints. What works for him is important and it may help others to see how he compensated for his vision issue as “2 people found this helpful.” I’ll let the other reviews speak for themselves. Reviews have definitely contributed to the EyePal’s #1 position in popularity and performance among shooters with vision challenges and best of all, even those without correction.

EyePal Peep Sighting kits availability on the Amazon Marketplace

It’s a real pleasure to be able to look at the EyePal product reviews in the Amazon marketplace. Therein can be found a lot of feedback from customers who have vision challenges that make the target shooting hobby difficult at best. The Amazon feedback assessment is a true indicator of customer satisfaction with the products they buy. Most people we know search the net for product performance, pricing and availability before committing to buy online. EyePal kits can now be bought through Amazon from many sellers for many differing price points and shipping rates. It makes the decision to squeeze the trigger easier.

Back on the Range with EyePal

It has been a nice start to the summer and everyone is back on the range. The NRA CMP National Matches are underway at Camp Perry, OH. The CMP Awards Ceremony takes place on July 21 where class winners are acknowledged. EyePalUSA.com is a sponsor of the National Matches. All in all, it’s an extraordinary event. Consider attending the event if you’re located close to the Port Clinton area.

The case for custom EyePal aperture diameters, vision challenges and their applications

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.

Feedback contributes to unique solutions!

Customer's cataract issue and sight picture

Hello Charlie

Nice to hear from you.

I can’t believe it has been 3 years since I ordered the EyePals, they are still working well and sticking properly.

Not doing too well in competitions these days, took part in one yesterday, (10 m Air Pistol) had some back pain which did not help, but I’m ever optimistic in improving.

A little saga in the 3 years since using the EyePal:

About 3 years ago I had a cataract in my right eye so I could shoot with it, previously been using my left dominant eye. I had to wait a couple of months after the surgery before I could get the correct prescription, then the eye started to become cloudy again , the optician said it was due to thickening of the capsule, so made an appointment with the original surgeon for YAG laser posterior capsulotomy.

Later I found that when using the EyePal I could see a cloudy patch at the bottom 1/3 of the aperture, so back to the consultant, I explained I shoot in competitions and sight through a tiny aperture and could see this fuzzy area. He explained this was at the top of the capsule as the image is upside down. So another YAG laser treatment to remove more of the capsule.

All in all this took about 2 years.

Apparently this thickening occurs in around 20% of cases following cataract surgery.

A friend at the club mentions to me, from time to time, that he would prefer the aperture on the EyePal was a little larger. Have you heard this from anyone else at all ?

Kind regards,

David

What's in your Sight Picture?

EyePal Chronicle
February 2017

This image may be your sight picture if you're staring at the front sight of a rifle. Instructors tell their students to ignore the blurred back sight and target. The eye will want to wander downrange to the target and back again to the front sight. Ranging back and forth like this causes eyestrain. 

You might be saying "Hey, that's my sight picture" but then you might think again, "so what's this all about"?

There is no perfect sight picture in reality but most shooters and archers will say they have perfect vision when it comes to sighting an iron-sight rifle, handgun or bow. It's a case of coping with what vision is available to you either naturally or by prescription.

But consider the venerable peep-sight. It's generally mounted on the rifle’s receiver or its tang. For the archers, it is mounted in the bow-string. In this case as pictured above, the EyePal Rifle peep, produces Depth of Field and a sight picture with unprecedented visual acuity unobtainable with the natural eye, even with a prescription.  Moving the peep to the eyewear lens, you have what I have come to call an "eye-sight", in as much as the peep is now mounted on the glasses.

The peep is now very small, about 50 thousands of an inch in diameter. But size matters in this instance where the larger the diameter of the peep, close objects start to get fuzzy while distant objects stay in focus. This would be important for handguns and bows as the sights for these are at an arm’s length away from the eye. Distant objects are always clear in both cases where the diameters are suitable for rifles or handguns and bows.

EyePal® sorts out the visual acuity problem straight away. With the application of a small peep (also known as an aperture or pinhole) on any glasses, the resulting image when viewed through the “hole” is remarkably clear. The same is also true with the use of plain safety glasses. If numbers make more sense, the smaller peep produces 20/10 and the larger peep gives 20/15 and both produce Depth of Field, just like the Pinhole Camera. For those familiar with camera apertures and f-stops, the Rifle EyePal is an f40 and the Handgun/Bow is an f30. In the end, the eye sees what it could never see before; an absolutely focused sight picture and truly, a sight for sore eyes. See www.EyePalUSA.com for more answers.