Eight stakes ride inside the handle. That is the whole idea behind this tool: the pegs and the thing that drives them travel as one object, instead of a hammer in one pocket and a fistful of stakes loose in the bottom of a stuff sack. Open the storage compartment at the campsite and your stakes are already counted, already there, and already in reach of the head that will drive them.
Setup runs in one pass. You pull a stake from the handle, drive it, and move to the next corner without walking back to your pack. Teardown runs the same way in reverse: the built-in puller hooks the stake and lifts it out of packed dirt or gravel, which saves your fingers the job of prying at a cold loop of wire. Each stake goes back into the handle as you pull it, so you know before you leave whether you left one in the ground.
It works the same on tent stakes, tarp pegs, canopy anchors, and the guy lines on a bug shelter, so one tool covers everything you pitch and everything you pull. Choose khaki, purple, or black. Stow it in the tent bag with the poles, and the stake count stays where you can see it from one trip to the next, which is usually where camping gear goes wrong.
Reviews below include verified buyers of this exact item from before it joined the REIDWOOD kit, plus REIDWOOD customers as their gear gets out there.