Bud, use two things - a good hook pick you can use for long bittings and a halfway decent rake for those days when you just can't single pick the thing.
Eventually, you will wear it out enough that you can pop it in a couple seconds with the rake and the hook pick will feel like fingers on silk and do about the same.
Try to utilize a tension wrench that doesn't kludge things up badly - most probs with those locks has been that - they get in the way and you find out later, smack your forehead, and be annoyed.
After that, well, you'll have a solid understanding of how they work, how to quickly defeat them, and where you need to improve to actually figure the buggers out.
And I could well be wrong - so by all means take the advice of others here.
You'll get it, though. Keep improvising. It's not insurmountable - the best have been stumped by what you have in your hands.
