pick gun

by **tharms17** » 8 Sep 2006 15:46

yeah well im use to the normal lock picks and ive gotten very good at it. but i always wanted to try out a pick gun to see what their like. but before i buy one!!!! can any tell me.......how many pins a lock pick gun can be used on. cause many of the locks im used to lock picking have modrate to high number of pins in um. thanks

by **tharms17** » 8 Sep 2006 16:05

please answer my question before voting thanks.

by **UWSDWF** » 8 Sep 2006 16:33

what do you mean by high number??? what types of locks????

I'm calling SHENANIGANS on this

SHENANIGANS! SHENANIGANS! SHENANIGANS!

seriously a pickgun is a waist of time and money the best purpose they serve is to lossen pins

by **Shrub** » 8 Sep 2006 17:17

Hehehe i voted before i posted

by **Mutzy** » 11 Sep 2006 23:41

The locksmith's answer: Yes. Having one in your toolbox can really help to do lockouts quickly and effectively.

A hobbyist lock picker's answer:

If you're in this for the fun of lock-picking, then stick to picks. The pickgun may need a bit of skill to learn, but if you're in it for the feel and the talent, the manual way is better.

But, if you want some added muscle in your pickset... :wink:

In My (locksmith apprentice) Opinion.

by **steve16** » 28 Oct 2006 13:24

I pick locks daily for a living and the 1st tool that I use is a Lockaid pic gun. I am 99% successful with it on your average residential or business lockset/ deadbolt. It also work well on padlocks.

by **maxxed** » 30 Oct 2006 1:23

I agree with mutzy and steve, if this is a hobby pass on the gun

by **theothergeoff** » 6 Nov 2006 11:49

Iâ€™ve had a manual pick gun for a while. As said above, it can be useful for opening locks in a hurry sometimes. But for a hobbyist like me, it feels a bit like cheating unless Iâ€™m pressed for time. Just my Noob opinion.

by **SEVEN** » 7 Nov 2006 21:51

Pickguns are too exspensive for hobbyists but making your own is a good way too go.I followed shrubs guide saddly just as I was getting consistant with it someone liberated it from my bench.

So now I have decided to invest in one and take a little more care.

by **Catch** » 11 Nov 2006 21:14

I enjoy lock picking as a hobby so to me it would seem pointless to use a gun, however at some point I think I'm going to want one. It just seems like cheating to me though

by **SEVEN** » 13 Nov 2006 21:41

Even with a pickgun I found myself having to manually pick the odd pin so for a hobbyist starting off with a rake then single pin picking has the same result.Then again I have not used a commercial gun very much.

by **ldnlksmth** » 17 Dec 2006 21:43

I almost always try the pick gun first, especially late at night or in inclement weather (I get a lot of that here). It certainly does take practice, but the rewards are a fast way to finish your service call.

If you're a hobbyist, make one. I have two commercial ones (I bought one then had one given to me a year later) and I've made 4 or 5 in different configuartions. I enjoy making tools so that was a lot of fun. I get huge satisfaction from designing and building a tool then having it work.

I'd be willing to bet you could find someone to sell one.

by **UWSDWF** » 17 Dec 2006 21:46

i find the fact that this thread started by a banned user and still seems to resurface constantly entertains me

by **ldnlksmth** » 18 Dec 2006 9:55

I don't pay enough attention to know that it was started by a banned user.

I also seem to have a knack of putting in my opinion a month or more after everyone's forgotten about the thread.

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