transferrability of skills?
Then today I picked up a few schlage b360 deadbolts that I bought on craigslist. The first one I looked at was five pins (four spool and one regular). So I thought to myself if I can pick the schlage cores with no security pins, and the abus with a five spools, this one's going to be no problem. So I started picking and of course I was wrong. I'm still trying to open it even after removing two pin stacks.
Maybe those of you who have more experience have a sort of general skill set you can apply to each new lock you pick up - instead of a schlage skill set and a brinks skill set, etc. This is perhaps a clumsy attempt on my part to explain to myself why it seems I have to relearn picking each time I pick up a new brand. I'll keep pluggin away though ...