| The Good |
| One relatively lightweight tool to carry in my shooting bag. |
| The Bad |
| No pliers included. In fairness though, this ‘feature’ probably prevents me from doing damage to things that should not be messed with using pliers. So let’s put this one in the benefit category! |
| The Ugly |
| I would like to see a lock on the knife blade. It opens solidly, and the shape of the tool generally keeps your fingers away from where the blade closes, but aggressive cutting still makes me a bit nervous. |
| Our Rating |
 Four Nuns! This removes a cheap screwdriver, my primary Leatherman, and about 712 choke tube wrenches from my shooting bag! |
The Gun Tool
The Gun Tool
Approximate Retail Price: $24.99
At the recent NRA Annual Meeting, I had the pleasure of meeting some of the crew from Real Avid, makers of The Gun Tool. Those kind folks, who didn’t know better, offered to send a Gun Tool back with me for the rigorous My Gun Culture evaluation protocol. Well, the testing has been completed and here’s the report…
As it is made specifically for guns, this may just be the tool that prevents me from damaging…
- Scope windage and elevation knobs (again)
- My Glock and shotgun trigger groups (again)
- Grip screws (yet again)
- My shotgun barrels and chokes (again)
Yes, I have an issue with trying to accomplish things with whatever tool is at hand – whether it’s the right for the job or not. What, you can’t use a screwdriver and a rock for everything?
The Gun Tool features the following built-in tools:
- Mean looking knife blade for ammo boxes and wolverines (see below)
- Choke tube wrench (10, 12, 16, 20, and 28 gauges and .410 bore)
- Scope adjustment blade with curved contour
- Pin punch – steel with rounded flat point profile
- Flat blade 1/8″ screwdriver bit
- Flat blade 3/16″ screwdriver bit
- Phillips head screwdriver bit
- Phillips head screwdriver bit
- Torx T10 driver
- Torx T15 driver
- Torx T20 driver
- Hex 3/32″ driver
- Hex 5/32″ driver
- 3/16″ magnetic driver
- Magnetic storage container for screwdriver bits
During comprehensive testing of The Gun Tool, I found this handy list of things I can accomplish without using any other tools. And yes, I did in fact personally verify that all of these things are possible.
- Change choke tubes on my Winchester 9410 .410 lever action shotgun (yes, that gun is way more fun than threatening my dogs with the vacuum – and that’s saying a lot. Fear not, I love my dogs and they have more fun being threatened than I have threatening them)
- Clean underneath my finger nails with the scope adjustment blade (it’s not too sharp like the screwdriver bits)
- I can completely detail strip my Glock 32 as the steel pin punch fits all three frame pins
- I can clean corn out of my teeth with the claw blade (provided I’m really careful)
- I can shotgun a beer with the punch tip
- I can change the grip backstrap on my Beretta PX4 – the scope blade fits the u-pin perfectly and is wide enough not to deform the pin which is somewhat tight fitting
- I can use it to hunt wolverines in Alaska
- I can re-zero the battle sights on my M-1 Garand
- I can remove the grips on every handgun I own except my Beretta 92FS (the hex screws are just a tad too small for The Gun Tool)
- And a whole lot more…
This is a really handy invention. Compact and light. I love carrying one tool that does a whole mess-load (that’s a lot) of things. I’m always in need of some tweak or adjustment when at the range you know. Highly recommended!
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| Adding to my moderately impressive tool collection is always a good thing. Plus, when folks at the range ask me what it is, I can tell them it’s a highly specialized gun tool. Then they tend to think I’m a much better shooter than I really am. I mean top shooters have specialized tools right? | I just love my Browning Gold Fusion 12 gauge. Having one handy tool to change my choke tubes and the ones on his wimpy little .410 is really nice! |
The Real Avid Gun Tool is available at Brownells:
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I recently purchased 2 gun tools from the manufacture paying full price of 24.99 and received 2 magnetic bore lights as an added bonus. I have been pleased with all but one aspect of the gun tool.I subscribe to a number of discount catalogs one being sports mans guide while looking through the last installment I found the gun tool by real avid being offered for 14.$ and change to non members and 13.49$ to members when I called R.A. I was told that a distributor can sell their product for any price they like and that the manufacture can do likewise. So if you are going to purchase a very handy range box,shooting outing,or gun room tool be advised that there is only one gun tool but there are many prices.
[…] can unscrew and remove half of the guide rod using a hex tool (our Real Avid Gun Tool worked perfectly for this) and then you have a standard 1911 take down for field strip completion. […]
First time I used this tool, I was attempting to remove a scope ring.( hex screw ). Twisted the hex bit , if I would have kept at it, probably would have broke off !! Got out my bit screwdriver, and really cheap bits, and got the ring off with NO PROBLEMS.
Now I wonder what else will go wrong with it ?
Let me guess, Made in China?????
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