What's your favorite gun tool or gadget?

[Burdy]

Reaction Rod
Fat Wrench
Mike Lucas Bore Guide
Seekonk 65lb preset
Feeler Gauges

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[BamaFan]

I've had to google a few things here but have learned a lot. I hope the answers keep coming!

 

[staggerwing42]

Reaction Rod
Fat Wrench
Mike Lucas Bore Guide
Seekonk 65lb preset
Feeler Gauges

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Yes. Love my Lucas bore guides. The best!

 

[mojo]

 

[sambo77]

Torque wrench, scope levels, and Tipton gun nose. Got all three recently and it made for easy scope mounting with proper torque specs.

 

[GFB]

Another vote for Uplula magazine loaded. I'll add a level kit for mounting optics. The notion people go to a gun store and pay to get their optics mounted kills me but then again I have a lot of rifles I fiddle with.

 

[Bear44]

Another vote for Uplula magazine loaded. I'll add a level kit for mounting optics. The notion people go to a gun store and pay to get their optics mounted kills me but then again I have a lot of rifles I fiddle with.

Question. How do you make sure the rifle itself is level before attaching the barrel level?

 

[lostchild]

Easy for me... without this tool, I wasted lots of time and effort on every new build!!
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Specifically, this tool greatly simplifies pivot pin installation. I remember my first AR build in the family room... my wife and I were looking everywhere for the spring-loaded detent pin after it shot out and across the room. She was yelling "be careful, you'll shoot your eye out" (maybe a play on my 4 year-old grandson's and Ralphie's Red Ryder bb-gun saga). I probably spent a couple of hours the first time trying to figure an easy way to install this pin alone. Now, it takes no more than 30-seconds.

I made my first one out of a chopstick. I use a steel purpose made tool now.

I just use a box cutter.. Use the side of the blade to hold detent/spring in place while I slide in the pin.
Now, if I could just find all those I launched before discovering this method...

 

[lostchild]

Guess my favorite tools would be my roll pin holder/starter and rolll pin punch sets. They sure help keep AR lowers from getting marred during assembly.

 

[GFB]

Question. How do you make sure the rifle itself is level before attaching the barrel level?

I lay a level across the top of the receiver. Then I set the level on the barrel. Remove level from receiver to continue once the level on the barrel is set.