Range tools

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I have a toolbox full of my firearms tools. It weighs about 15 lbs. I don't want to take it to the range with me.

But, sometimes you need to poke at your guns on the range.

What's in your essential range toolkit?
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Thought I had enough stuff crammed into my range bag, but maybe I should think about adding a small pair of vice grips. I've usually got the multitool (which failed at getting the damned bolt un-stuck), screwdriver, cleaning rod (pistol and rifle) and a set of allen wrenches. Can't account for everything I suppose, but will be interested to see what everybody else brings.
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A decent multi-tool with pliers, a set of Allen wrenches English and metric, knife, pen, sharpie marker, oil and one set of extra batteries for anything that takes batteries. I am thinking of adding a live chicken to sacrifice to the God of accuracy.
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ThirstyHersh wrote:A decent multi-tool with pliers, a set of Allen wrenches English and metric, knife, pen, sharpie marker, oil and one set of extra batteries for anything that takes batteries. I am thinking of adding a live chicken to sacrifice to the God of accuracy.
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ATXOrangeandBlue wrote:
CDFingers wrote:When I'm going commando, it's minimalist at foam ear plugs, water, guns and ammo.

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Don't need the ear plugs. So clean underwear prevents ear fungus.

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I use a too-big range bag with all sorts of crap in it, including a multitool, couple of screwdrivers, allen wrench set, brushes lubricants, etc. Then some specialized tools depending on what I"m shooting, like the GI tool if I've got the M1 Garand.

So it's a big bag, but that leaves room for all my cool patches, with the LGC patch being the coolest of them all, of course!
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A multi tool and a pouch of Allen wrenches and small screwdrivers, a couple patchworms (.22 and .17), spare ear and eye protection, a small first aid kit including quik-clot, a couple sand bags, a couple sunshades for scopes, a bipod, notebook, pen, and a knife. Still have room for plenty of ammo and magazines.
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Guns+Ammo+Water+Hearing Protection+Glasses(Cannot forget those)=Fun
Old days was just Guns+Ammo+Glasses+Behind my House=Fun
I clean my gun when I get around to it. Never at the range.
Oh, and a place with a restroom.......
But if someone has a gun and is trying to kill you ... it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.
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LadyEBR wrote:Guns+Ammo+Water+Hearing Protection+Glasses(Cannot forget those)=Fun
Old days was just Guns+Ammo+Glasses+Behind my House=Fun
Oh, and a place with a restroom.......
I am lucky in that my range is usually deserted and it's in the woods so, if it's good enough for a wild bear... (No, not number 2.)
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Bucolic wrote:
LadyEBR wrote:Guns+Ammo+Water+Hearing Protection+Glasses(Cannot forget those)=Fun
Old days was just Guns+Ammo+Glasses+Behind my House=Fun
Oh, and a place with a restroom.......
I am lucky in that my range is usually deserted and it's in the woods so, if it's good enough for a wild bear... (No, not number 2.)

I miss my childhood home......
But if someone has a gun and is trying to kill you ... it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.
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Recently I've just been putting a baggie of ammo in one jacket pocket and earplugs and safety glasses in the other. I always have my giant Swiss army knife.
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Mason wrote:Recently I've just been putting a baggie of ammo in one jacket pocket and earplugs and safety glasses in the other. I always have my giant Swiss army knife.
In all the time I have been shooting I have never needed a tool or a cleaner. Seems to me that if it does need that I would be better off doing it at home.
Lately, the last 30 years or so, since I got married and the spouse always cleans after I started doing that usually within a day or two.
Before it was ......meh and a patch down the barrel when I remembered.
Seems to me six of one half dozen of the other as far as surgical cleaning goes.

EXCEPT the cap and ball that is. Now you are talking a whole 'nother ballgame!
Bore batter/patches/percussion caps/extry nipples/nipple tool/extry powder/rods/cleaning rods/etc ad nauseam.....
But if someone has a gun and is trying to kill you ... it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.
Dalai Lama

A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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Leatherman multitool, eyes and ear pro, bottle of water (because TEXAS), band-aids for the inevitable metal vs. cuticle shredding.

My regular range has a tool shed for anything that a multitool can't fix...like a rubber mallet for a stuck SBR charging handle. :whistle:
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