I've settled on bentgates...mainly bc they seem to hold the nuts well and are easy to flip and re-rack. Tried wiregates but found the spring tension too weak.

Thoughts?

I like Ovals because they have plenty of room for lots of nuts.

Whatever you settle on keylock is the only way to go....getting the wire of the nut stuck on the nose of the biner isn't fun.

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I use these the Mammut Element Key Lock.
www.rei.com/product/760240/mammut-element-key-lock-carabiner

I like ovals and they like my nuts too

One that the gate stays closed.

Wild Country Helium: www.campsaver.com/helium-clean-wire-carabiner

Racking nuts is actually the one time I prefer a non-keylock. Having the hook at the nose of the biner has, on many occasions, saved be from dropping a nut by having ti slide off of the biner.

I like the BD ovalwires.

DMM shield

BD ovalwire and OP Doval. The Doval is a little more compact and lighter.

How is everyone racking theirs? Full set per; small-med separate; etc?

Petzl Owall, easy choice.

Petzl Spirit. Micros on one, the rest on the other.

BD Ovalwire

I'm with Bud, the Petzl Owall hands down. But in general a keylock nose oval is the way to go as others have said. If you don't like the price, check out DMM or Mad Rock's (I use this for RPs and it's great) keylock oval offerings.

I would go Ovalwire for easy of use or Nano for lightweight.

The BD Ovals are heavy, but they make selecting a nut and getting it from the biner very easy. Haven't tried other ovals, but i'm sure they're also good.

Ovals work better than any other shape I've tried.

DMM Ovals are the best i've found.

They're a bit bigger than bd ovals and are keynose to boot. I use them for my nuts and pins.

DMM Oval Submitted By: kevin deweese on Sep 13, 2011

My bail biner, whatever that may be. In the end I can strip all the nuts off of it onto a spare or whatever and use it, but meanwhile I have a bail biner with me.

Haven't trad climbed a ton, but have them on a wire gate oval. I've grown accustomed to the asymmetric biners on quickdraws, so I actually find ovals a little annoying because I can't tell at a glance or by feel which way the gate opens.

From what trad climbing I've done, I've used ovals. There's plenty of room, you can rotate the biner in your hand pretty easy to get at whichever nut you want. As to the forgetting which side the biner opens on, if you clip your gear on facing the same way everytime there's no issue with that whatsoever.

I use the wire oval that came with my BD nuts. I actually bought a proton solid gate that was keylock obviously, due to some peoples suggestions.

This was a few months ago, and after dropping a nut here and there due to the change, and then missing a clip back onto my harness (Gumby alert) I switched back to the wire oval.

Oval.......

I use a Umert Leadmaster Mark IV oval with the neon yellow finish.

you guys are putting way too much thought into this.