What torque screwdriver?

[ShooterMcgavin]

Does anyone have certain Torque Drivers they swear by?

I am looking at doing all my own scope/ring/rail mounting and am a bit overwhelmed by all the options.

What's the best option out there?

Thanks!

 

[JohnJohnson]

Personally I use Fix It Sticks for everything.

 

[TREE ‘EM]

The first and biggest question is, what’s your budget?
There are several decent, reasonably accurate torque drivers at the low end of the spectrum, such as Fat wrench, some of the simple fixed setting drivers, and harbor freight offerings.

If you want absolute precision, nothing beats snap on.

 

[Grady.J]

Unknown munitions notes on their Tikka rings page that they prefer the manual(not electronic) wheeler fat wrench for scope mounting. If it's good enough for them, it's good enough for me.

 

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[Dtharvester]

Another for Wheeler Fat Wrench doing the trick, and they’re not expensive.
I’m likely gonna set aside couch change till I get a base set of Fixit sticks, but that’s for use in the field. I’ll still have the Wheeler at the bench, and for double backup redundancy.

 

[Desk Jockey]

Not an expert but I went DIY a while ago after I watched some gun store Rambo mount an AR scope for me eyeballing the level and gorilla twisting the screws. I have mounted a dozen rifles since then.

Fat wrench has done just fine for me. Get a few levels of various kinds. A deck of playing cards is handy as shims.

I also highly recommend building or buying a gun vise to work in. I use a Tipton ultra I got on sale at cabelas for $100. Starting out with a level gun makes the scope leveling a lot easier and a highly adjustable vise makes that easy. You can get the same result with some wood and shims, but the vise is nice.

 

[Dtharvester]

Not an expert but I went DIY a while ago after I watched some gun store Rambo mount an AR scope for me eyeballing the level and gorilla twisting the screws. I have mounted a dozen rifles since then.

Fat wrench has done just fine for me. Get a few levels of various kinds. A deck of playing cards is handy as shims.

I also highly recommend building or buying a gun vise to work in. I use a Tipton ultra I got on sale at cabelas for $100. Starting out with a level gun makes the scope leveling a lot easier and a highly adjustable vise makes that easy. You can get the same result with some wood and shims, but the vise is nice.

Ditto on the Tipton vise. I take it for granted that most would have one. Very useful for so many things , but definitely invaluable for leveling a rifle for optics.

Get a Wheeler manual instead of FixIt sticks and use the leftover money to get a good gun vise.

 

[willidru]

I use the Wheeler Fat Wrench, seems to work fine. Nothing special. I would recommend getting better bits than what it comes with.