[serious] wrote:There's not a real limit here. Why do we pick locks in good shape? Why do we sometimes blast them with wd40 sometimes? Vice vs hand? In good lighting? At a non weird angle? Pick locks as they are presented. Just like a padlock can be turned to a more comfortable angle, an unmounted lock can be as well. If the challenge was to pick it upsidedown, backwards, underwater, in the dark, thats how they'd mount it. Anything you CAN do is fair game.
Now it sounds like you'e talking about my job--I'm a locksmith
I don't spend a lot of time picking locks but I do get to see & work on them in most all conditions