23 Things You Can Do With A Leatherman Rail Tool For AR-15s

Today’s gift idea for you or your favorite gunnie is the Leatherman Rail tool for AR-15s and lots of other stuff.

The Leatherman Rail holds a lot of tools per square inch.

The Leatherman Rail is a nearly flat tool that is nowhere near flat when it comes to versatility. Just under 5 inches long, 1 ½ inches wide and ½ inch thick, it packs a lot of uses for space taken in or on your range bag. You can even clip it on the outside of your bag, pack or belt using the built-in carabiner.

A ⅜" will allow you to drive a standard socket. It's a bit awkward, but will work in a crunch.

The ⅜” open-ended wrench will allow you to drive a standard socket. It’s a bit awkward, but will work in a crunch. And of course it’s a handy open-end ⅜” wrench.

Here are just a few things you can do with it:

Adjust the front sight on an AR-15 or similar rifle.
Change grips on your 1911.
Remove the bottom of pistol magazines using the pin removal tool.
Open taped ammo boxes. The AR-15 front sight adjustment tool is sharp and pointy like that.
Lovingly and gently encourage stubborn push pins to move.
Measure group sizes – the center of the tool is *exactly* 1 inch wide; the front sight adjustment prongs are 5/16 inches apart and there are ¼ and ⅜ inch drivers. With all those, you can estimate a lot of measurements.
Mount Magpul Back Up Sights on your AR-15 using the flathead screwdriver tool.
Remove the carrying handle on an AR-15 A3 model.
Check / tighten / loosen your scope rings.
Dig a bullet out of a log. While not listed on the Leatherman web site, I find this a valuable feature.
Uncap a bottle. After the shooting is done, you can use the carabiner hook to open a cold one. It’s a little tricky, but if you tackle that, you can also…
Shotgun a beer. Remember that sharp and pointy front sight tool? It’ll go through an aluminum can like butter.
Open and close an oxygen tank valve. If you really choked on that last Steel Challenge stage, take a few hits of O2 and compose yourself.
Tighten or loosen anything you have a ¼” Hex bit for. The hex driver is universal for all sorts of bits.
Remove staples from a target backer.
Remove an AR-15 firing pin retaining pin when cleaning the bolt and carrier.
Pull a nail out of a target stand.
You can open an AR-15 ejection port cover when the bolt is already open – without tearing off your thumbnail.
Remove your AR-15 trigger group.
Peel a banana when the top doesn’t want to separate.
Easily remove the bottom from a PMag
Scrape carbon from your AR bolt in the field.
Use it as an emergency toothpick. Yep, done that. I’m not proud. Just resourceful.

You can buy the Leatherman Rail here for less than 30 bucks.

The rail includes a phillips and flat head screwdrivers, a Torx #15 bit, pin punch and 7/64″ drivers. Those fit in a special slot in the compression handle.