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This all started one afternoon while I was deer hunting. It was the middle of the rut, I was sitting in a ladder stand in a bottom, it had big hills on both sides, I had scent bombs everywhere. Then, right as it got dark and I was about to climb down, the woods came to life. And what sounded like herds of animals that were running down the hills on both sides, I could hear two bucks fighting; and it sounded like there were animals all around me and underneath me. That's when it happened! I could not see a thing, it was too dark. I just sat there and kept listening to all these animals around me, trying to recognize different sounds, as to determine what type of animals they were. I turned on my flashlight and when I did, I saw white tails running away in every direction. I was so upset, that I had put all this time, money, and effort into this stand. I just wish I could have seen the animals that were there. When I got back to deer camp I got online and ordered a $500 night vision monocular. I was bound and determined that would never happen to me again! I received my monocular and could barely see or make out a deer at 20 yards and it was green tunnel vision with horrible quality and spots all over the place. I was not satisfied with this, so I went and purchased another unit for around $1000. It was much better than the $500 purchase. But I could only identify animals out to about 75 yards and the video quality was still the green tunnel vision. So I said "the heck with this, I'll build my own and make it affordable with a good quality image."  And so it began... thousands of hours of research and $1000's of dollars later, I had a big metal box filled with all kinds of miscellaneous items and weighed about 5lbs.  I could now see 100+ yards and it was crystal clear. That's when I knew I had something! Fast forward to now, here I am three years later and I needed a way to make extra money. After discussing several different options with my wife, from getting a second job, to importing and selling tractors. We decided that I had already tied up so much time and money into creating and learning night vision that I should try to pursue that instead. I took what money we had and purchased a 3D printer. I then studied and taught myself 123d design, Autocad, and Autodesk Inventor. I  started finding the correct parts I needed to make everything smaller and through a lot of building and tweaking units I settled on a design. I showed it to a few friends and they said they would buy one and I told them they would be for sale soon. Then another journey began, I needed to come up with the money to buy the initial parts and inventory in a large enough quantity to obtain a discount; that way I could build these units at a low enough cost that I could in turn sell them at an affordable price. I made a few videos and offered it at a discounted price for helping me get the company started and waiting 60-90 days for their unit. My goal was to pre-sell 10 units, The first day I put the videos on facebook I sold 8. I now have several 3D printers operating and so far have created one full time American job and hopefully more very soon.

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-Michael Bartlett, Inventor and Owner
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