Anyone use the EyePal vision enhancer?

[Canuck Bob]

Does anyone have experience with this device on the range? I'm interested in rifle and mostly receiver sights but I will try barrel sights too.

http://www.eyepalusa.com

 

[oscarflytyer]

not those, but a similar brand no longer available. they work great for me. But I went ahead and got a Merit Iris and use it now for handguns. like it because it is adjustable and much easier to get set where you want it.

http://www.meritcorporation.com/products.html

 

[Canuck Bob]

Looks like Merit may be out of business. No website ordering and everyone shows no stock on all products.

 

[Ian]

Nope. A sharp pencil and 3/4" round, black pasty sticker from a shoot-n-see target ought to do the trick, though. I can't use lens apertures due to masses of central-vision floaters. Peeps are dicey and only useful if apertures are large and at least 3" away from my eyeball.

 

[Canuck Bob]

6 eye surgeries last year have both improved and disturbed my vision. I'm corrected well enough with the plastic cataract lenses. However the complete loss of focus ability from plastic lenses makes close items, read sights, tricky. I tried an experiment with holding a tiny peep insert very close to my eye with the Win 94 in a rest down the hall. The lighting was bad but the sight picture was sharp. It remains to be seen if this translates to rifle sight accuracy in real use at long range.

Still I will stubbornly throw resources and schemes of proven help to continue to shoot peeps and hopefully barrel irons well. The mission is target and range plinking steel. The Canada Post truck delivered a NECG CZ527 reciever sight and a tall front Patridge post and an additional larger aperture for the 223 Lux yesterday. One theme that might get tried this summer is a lower recoil rifle with a very close tang sight arrangement.

 

[Canuck Bob]

Here is a picture of a Marble's special tang base at the comb. I have a better picture somewhere of a few mounted on Win levers. I'm interested in anything anyone might know about this series. A very dangerous potential in even a medium kicker but available once. Makes me wonder it it is how elderly shooters stayed accurate with age in the 19th and early20th century.

 

[smokeywolf]

That's interesting. Never seen one of those.

I too, suffer with floaters, but in the off eye and not centered to my pupil.

 

[Canuck Bob]

Here are two better special base tang sight pictures.

 

[JWFilips]

I too have bad central vision floaters in both eyes . Unfortunately, the worst is my right ( shooting ) eye. It has made the last 20 years difficult especially since I am a professional commercial photographer. Looking into any type of aperture is difficult. Has ruined my life long hobby of astronomy.
I do use receiver sights however I could never hunt with them. At least from the bench I have plenty of time to fight them long enough to get a somewhat clear sight picture and have been able to shoot with them fairly well.
I have made my own sticky dots with holes to stick on my glasses however now I have a full set of apertures to screw into my receiver sights.
The smaller the sharper but more difficult to see because of reduced brightness.
Reserve those for the brightest days & when I have plenty of time to wait for my shots

 

[Bret4207]

I've seen a few pics of those sights over the years. I was always under the impression they were an answer in search of a problem. Don't qoute me on this, but I seem to recall reading somewhere that the idea for them came from the butt stock mounted sights used in long range matches where the shooter laid on his back and rested the muzzle on his foot, not a style seen in 100 plus years.

 

[oscarflytyer]

Never seen those. I would think they would be tough on the shooter!

I do have a tang mntd Vernier on the RB in my avatar. Heavy rifle/light loads, recoil is not bad. But I was still concerned for my thumb (over the stock) and my eye close to the sight. The great thing about this sight is that it clicks in place, but a very light tap (head/shooting glasses) bumps it forward and you don't even realize you bumped it. Unfortunately it is the only one I have.

All my others, I have been fortunate enough to be able to see/hunt w/ Skinner peep sights installed.

Also, since the Merit device is not currently available - REAL bummer! - and the stick on glasses peeps I still have are no longer available either... I looked into a viable option. Haven't tried it yet, but think that the black static stick cling material with a small hole pocked in it would work. Diff methods to cut a clean hole (small brass rod over soft background - tap/punch a clean hole, etc).

 

[Pistolero]

I have used the Lyman Hawkeye for years. Folks at the range would ask me what that funny thing stuck
on my glasses was, so I'd let them use it. Finally bought 10 at a discount so I could sell
them at the range, folks wanted them as soon as they looked thru them at handgun sights.
Sold out of the 10.

Bill