u/brokentsuba

I’ve been doing this for a bit but mainly stuck with padlocks, the few times I tried kik style locks I’d struggled with little success. With that in mind I saw this hyper tough deadbolt at Walmart on sale for $7.50 and was not expecting spools. Even so, I was not expecting it to put up that much of a fight, raking only got it to false set and the spools were difficult to lift and required quite a bit of bullying. I’m assuming at least some of the difficulty is sloppy tolerances but I’m curious, for those who are used to picking larger format pins, is it usually that different from padlocks and do you generally find them more or less difficult to pick than padlocks?