Anyone Buy a Gun from McElhiney's?

[67ray]

I did several years ago and he put a combination trigger lock on it, but I don't recall the combination! Does anyone remember what he used for default ID? If I can save the lock then great.

 

[twogunwilly]

Search lock picking on youtube

 

[mousegunfan]

Try all 0's. This is usually the default.

 

[namedpipes]

When you get the combo, write it on the back with a sharpie

 

[snwbrdr435]

Wait its been years since you bought it and now your taking the lock off?

 

[FPrice]

I bought a Garand from another customer at PDS who needed money asap for bills. It had a cable key lock on it but he did not have the key. I took it to a locksmith and they were able to open it buy did not have a key.

If it's a combination lock and none of the common combinations work, just start at 0-0-0 and keep going up. Eventually you will find it.

 

[namedpipes]

Someone told me the story, or maybe it was a thread here... He was a firearms instructor and brought a firearm (with a trigger lock of course) to the class but was unable to demonstrate the weapon because he'd forgotten the key. At home that night, he tossed it on the couch or something and the lever gun opened, releasing the lock.

I'm sure I mangled the details but that was the gist of it.

I don't suppose it was a lever gun you bought?

 

[M1911]

Combination trigger locks typically have three tumblers with 10 numbers on each tumbler. That gives you 1000 possible combinations. If you can't get it open in 15 minutes then you just aren't trying. Just be systematic. Start with 000. Then 001. Then 002. Lather, rinse and repeat. I opened one of these for a fellow this way. It isn't hard.

 

[Conservativegirl]

Try youtube. I'm sure that you'd be able to find a video to just take it apart without marring the gun.

 

[Donvin999]

Combination trigger locks typically have three tumblers with 10 numbers on each tumbler. That gives you 1000 possible combinations. If you can't get it open in 15 minutes then you just aren't trying. Just be systematic. Start with 000. Then 001. Then 002. Lather, rinse and repeat. I opened one of these for a fellow this way. It isn't hard.

Although it wasn't a gun lock I have used this idea on a combo lock which had tumblers was very easy took me 15 minutes just hope it's a low number! Good luck

 

[milktree]

Someone told me the story, or maybe it was a thread here... He was a firearms instructor and brought a firearm (with a trigger lock of course) to the class but was unable to demonstrate the weapon because he'd forgotten the key. At home that night, he tossed it on the couch or something and the lever gun opened, releasing the lock.

When I took my safety course the instructor demonstrated exactly how crappy the "state approved locks" are. He put a lock on a gun, whacked the lock on the side of the table, and the lock popped open. I'm sure there are better and worse ones, but the standard for "good enough" is pretty low.

 

[mkal88]

I once lost a key to a trigger lock I had on my rifles so I just drilled it out. I couldnt find the key for over a year and it took all of five seconds to drill out

 

[fbirdquik6]

Look on youtube, you can open the combo trigger locks with a small pin

 

[JimB]

read an article several years ago, young kids were using ball point pens,,,


can't be that difficult.

 

[TFLeader]

If I remember it was 123 or 111.

 

[67ray]

That was it. Didn't even have to try!

 

[AHM]

If I remember it was 123 or 111.

That was it. Didn't even have to try!

Spoiler: If I was you, I'd try '111' first...

 

[wilson911]

Do you have to have a trigger lock even if its in a safe?

 

[AHM]

Do you have to have a trigger lock even if its in a safe?

Does it count if you put the trigger lock on the safe itself?

 

[appraiser]

holy necro thread Batman!

Things better get back to normal soon, it is bad enough we've looked at all the porn on the internet, but now we are dragging up 9 year old threads...

 

[Asaltweapon]

Wow.
My Pardini came from him. Nice guy but damn Parkinson’s was setting in hard.

 

[namedpipes]

Wait its been years since you bought it and now your taking the lock off?

Frigging autocorrect stuck again. Icorrected my party to backfrom lock

 

[Zappa]

holy necro thread Batman!

Things better get back to normal soon, it is bad enough we've looked at all the porn on the internet, but now we are dragging up 9 year old threads...

That is a weird bump

It wasn't even relevant to the OP, such as an update, which would also be weird, because Ed died years ago.

I have nothing bad to say about Ed, I used to shoot skeet with him at Riverside.
Then later when he opened his shop, I did some trading with him.
He took my Detonics Pocket 9 in trade towards my Python, which I'm so glad I bought when I did.
And then I watched him schlep that Detonics around to every gun show for the next two years trying to sell it.

 

[AHM]

That is a weird bump

As usual, "Similar threads" (in the footer for "Anyone buying a Coronavirus Gun") is the reason.

 

[drgrant]

That is a weird bump View attachment 395078

It wasn't even relevant to the OP, such as an update, which would also be weird, because Ed died years ago.

I have nothing bad to say about Ed, I used to shoot skeet with him at Riverside.
Then later when he opened his shop, I did some trading with him.
He took my Detonics Pocket 9 in trade towards my Python, which I'm so glad I bought when I did.
And then I watched him schlep that Detonics around to every gun show for the next two years trying to sell it.

With the way he dealt with customers it's pretty obvious why it was difficult for him to sell stuff. I asked him an innocuous question about a BHP he had at a
gun show and he basically blew me off. (I forget what was said, but I remember it wasn't pleasant) and I wasn't even trying to negotiate with him or anything.

At least a half dozen people told me "shop smelled like piss" although I had never been in there to corroborate that.

ETA: Whenever I saw his booth at gun shows, there was hardly anyone looking at his stuff, much of it was decent, but way overpriced, even by pre obama era gun show standards (back when you could find deals at gun shows). It was always one of those "BUT Y, THO?" booths. Much like that guy from CT that always had a case full of glocks he refused to sell to MA residents and had a placard with 6 point font on it telling people that nobody from MA could buy them lol....

 

[centermass181]

i have a lock on my AR trigger well. lost the key years ago, havent been able to shoot it since.

 

[Roof gunner]

When you get the combo, write it on the back with a sharpie

Wright it on the stock

 

[GaryO]

Combination trigger locks typically have three tumblers with 10 numbers on each tumbler. That gives you 1000 possible combinations. If you can't get it open in 15 minutes then you just aren't trying. Just be systematic. Start with 000. Then 001. Then 002. Lather, rinse and repeat. I opened one of these for a fellow this way. It isn't hard.

You're a patient person. I'm like the owl in the old Tootsie Pop commercials...2 tries and then I'm cracking that mother open.

 

[namedpipes]

Frigging autocorrect stuck again. Icorrected my party to backfrom lock

Even funnier, in the past couple days I posted something about writing your pin on the BACK of your ltc. After AHM reincarnated this thread I noticed I'd accidentally typed lock instead of back. Only I hadn't. THIS thread is a decade old and really is about locks.

I need fresher wisecracks.

 

[Broc]

holy necro thread Batman!

Things better get back to normal soon, it is bad enough we've looked at all the porn on the internet, but now we are dragging up 9 year old threads...

People complain of someone revives a thread.
People complain if someone starts a new thread.

If people revived more threads, we would cut the amount of threads on NES by 80%, maybe more. We might even end up with 20 gun related threads and 700 Reptile threads.