Lockpicking Hollywood style

[jonesy]

http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/bot5.htm

Funny to see even a Magnum suck at it.

Now, if he had been aiming at the hasp would the bullets have ricochet off or would it have had a good chance at breaking it?

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

That's pretty darn cool.

 

[jgbrowning]

When trying to shoot a lock off, don't shoot the lock, shoot what the lock's locking. Generally, that's much less tough than the lock itself.

joe b.

 

[Mark CMG]

When trying to shoot a lock off, don't shoot the lock, shoot what the lock's locking. Generally, that's much less tough than the lock itself.

joe b.

Yup. That flimsy bit of hardware/hinge pops nicely. Bring a crowbar in case you'd like to avoid waking the baby.

 

[mojo1701]

Yup. That flimsy bit of hardware/hinge pops nicely. Bring a crowbar in case you'd like to avoid waking the baby.

Or a silencer, but those usually decrease muzzle velocity a bit.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Somebody point Hellhound "RPG's Overstate the Effectiveness of Shotguns" at this thread.

 

[Rel]

Anybody here ever read "Rage" by Stephen King?

 

[Aeson]

Anybody here ever read "Rage" by Stephen King?

Did someone shoot a lock in the book? Wait it was a King book. The lock came back to seek revenge on the guy that shot it.

 

[Rel]

Did someone shoot a lock in the book? Wait it was a King book. The lock came back to seek revenge on the guy that shot it.

I don't want to ruin it for anybody so...

Spoiler

The main character is a kid who holds his algebra class at gunpoint for an entire school day. The story starts with the kid calmly going to his locker and cleaning out his stuff (he figures that he'll probably be dead before it's all over). The story ends with a police sharpshooter nailing him right in the heart...or what would have been his heart if he didn't have that Master Lock in his breast pocket where King casually mentioned him tucking it at the start of the day (trust me when I say that the reader has completely forgotten this tidbit given the other events that unfold through the story).

Also there's the epilogue that talks about the kid being in a mental institution watching TV. He becomes violently ill upon seeing the commercial where they shoot the Master Lock with a rifle to show that it still stays locked.

 

[Aeson]

I was so close.