Just a little musings here related to techniques...
Since I started lockpicking, I've always been more interested in SPP, because i know what's going on in the lock, being in total control over the mechanism. And whenever i would try raking, it was almost as if I was writing myself off in not being able to pick it, due to the 'haphazard' technique, which i had viewed as a technique that denied logic, enough to almost totally write it off before grabbing the rakes... [getting close to rambling... sorry xD]
That was, however before I started playing around with Bogotas, LN's rakes and the like. What i'm getting at is this: Has anyone ever found that if you have that 'i
am going to pick this' mentality, you usually will, regardless of technique? I'm thinking normal locks here, not high security stuff, or stuff that needs special techniques to open.
Reason for me to bring this up is because on a lockout (and rekey) i did recently, I only used my pickgun for the Security screen, but the entrance leverset and deadlock were in positions that the pickgun blade wouldn't reach. The leverset i used a SPP technique, then used a LN Rake for the deadbolt. I had changed my perspective on raking and I actually believe that helped. Hence the
'Placebo effect'.
Anyone else come across this before?
p.s. It has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that i was busting to use the toilet in the unit.
