Fix It Sticks Handgun
And Optics Tool Kit
The $204 Insurance Policy in My Shooting Bag
The Fix It Sticks Handgun and Optics Tool Kit is a small-but-mighty tool kit that fits into a pocket or range bag
but can handle nearly any field repair or optic mounting task.
I lost my favorite tool kit and was inconsolable. Truly. Pouting around the house, muttering to myself, levels of inconsolable. Finally, I gave up and moved on to moping about the other 6,320 shooting items I’ve lost in my disorganized haste. Then, while reorganizing an ammo locker on Sunday, I found it inexplicably buried between a brick of .22 LR and a stash of tracer rounds. Instantly, I was a happy little toddler again. Funny how these things happen.
The prodigal kit? The Fix It Sticks Compact Pistol Kit — the one tool roll I keep in my shooting bag because it covers everything you actually need, without stuffing in junk you don’t.
Let’s be honest: most “range kits” are either bloated with gimmicks or stripped down to the point of uselessness. This one hits the sweet spot.
Central to optics repair and mounting, the unique Fix It Sticks torque driver module lets you use the proper amount of force
for mounting and checking optics but without the danger of breaking a screw or stripping out a hole. This feature alone
is worth the entire price of the kit.
At the heart of the system is the Fix It Sticks Mini All-in-One Torque Driver. If you install optics and you’re not using a torque wrench, you’re doing it wrong. Full stop. I recently wrote about this, and I’ll say it again here: over-torquing tiny screws is how you create the expensive, stomach-dropping “Dang it!” moment when a tiny screw snaps in half or strips out a hole. The Mini driver covers 6-25 inch-pounds, which handles the vast majority of pistol optics plates, mounts and ring screws. It’s compact enough to live in a range bag and precise enough to trust on serious equipment.
The rest of the kit is built around that foundation.
The T-Handle mini ratchet speeds up the process of installing or removing long screws and if you add the handle,
you can remove anything frozen or installed too tight.
The miniature ratchet wrench is one of my favorite pieces. For installation, you don’t need much torque, but the speed provided by a ratchet is nice. For disassembly — especially when someone else cranked it down like they were tightening lug nuts — you sometimes need more. If you slip the handle extension into one arm of the T-handle, you gain extra leverage without turning the job into a four-handed circus act. It’s simple, mechanical common sense. I appreciate that.
Among all the other goodies, the kit includes a high-quality 1911 barrel bushing wrench.
If your bushing was tight before you headed to the range, like in most custom or semi-custom guns,
it will become a positive beast to remove once you’ve fired a couple of boxes of ammo.
The Fix It Sticks wrench makes short work of the problem!
Accessories
Then there’s the 1911 bushing wrench, which will earn its keep the first time you deal with a stubborn match-grade bushing. A dedicated GLOCK sight tool handles front sight swaps cleanly. Four brass cleaning rods let you configure length for everything from compact carry pistols to long-slide barrels. Two 8-32 thread adapters mean you can use just about any cleaning accessory you already own.
Fix It Sticks even includes a hard-to-find Aimpoint bit for those spanner-style caps — something you don’t appreciate until you need it and can’t find it. There’s a steel pick for scraping carbon out of tight crevices. Eleven bits — Torx, Phillips, and flat — cover all the handgun hardware you’ll run across. I especially like the long, mini flat bit because you can actually see the screw head and slot alignment while you’re working. Small detail. Big difference.
The tool kit even includes four brass cleaning rod sections. While the kit doesn’t include any jags or brushes, you could
easily add a couple into the nylon pouch and have your all cleaning and tool kit needs covered by the pocket-sized kit.
The cleaning brush stores inside the handle and extension, which keeps it protected and out of the way. Everything is coated in electroless nickel, making the components corrosion-resistant and impressively tough for their size. This isn’t hardware-store pot metal. It’s professional-grade equipment meant to quietly survive for long periods in the bottom of a range bag — until you really need it. Then, it’s worth its weight in platinum.
Range Rundown
This is the kit I grab whenever I head to the range. It goes with me on hunts and gets tossed into luggage when I’m headed to a training school or media event. I don’t have to think about it. If a screw loosens, an optic needs adjusting, a sight needs swapping, or a pistol needs cleaning, I’m covered.
Is it inexpensive? No. With an MSRP of $204, it’s an investment. But here’s the reality: most shooters will spend much more on a single optic or case of ammo without blinking. If you’re going to make one investment in professional-grade tools that protect the guns and optics you’ve already paid good money for, this is a smart place to do it.
It’s also worth digging through an ammo locker to recover.
Trust me, I’ll never forsake my little tool kit ever again!
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