With the Big Shot and hand throwing? I've personally hit 120' and about 80' (took me 1.5 hrs), respectively. I am curious for a few reasons, how high can you hit with the Big Shot, and what's the setup used? I've thought about a 4oz. throwbag with 50 lbs fishing line (spectra stuff)... could you hit 200+ ft with a rig like that? So what's your personal best, and how high could you get it to go?

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In Panama, we were using 3-4 oz lead weights with the fishing line and I believe we could have easily hit 200 ft with that, Joe Maher could verify that. He could also verify that Abe Winters hit a branch at 103 ft with a hand throw last year. The man's a beast.

The second time I used my Big Shot I got over two yards down into my neighbors trees w/ a 3 ounce weight. The problems is not how high I got but did the weight made it back to the ground? I did not.
It took me a few months to climb into the tree and rescue my throw weight.
Sherrill have used the big shot in demos and they mention in their catalog that it can go 100 ft up and 100 ft across with regular 3 to 20 ounce weights. Joe an other in Panama regularly go very high with lighter weights and fishing line as mentioned in the post from Rod J.

I have only used a big shot once with a 10 oz bag and it didn't go any farther then I could throw it.
I use a 10 oz but have an 8 oz for something really tall and use the zing-it 2.2 mill. line. I fond that the 1.8 gets tangled to easy. 80ft is pretty easy to hit with this set up. I max. out somewhere between 90 and 100 ft. by hand. Hope this helps.

I can throw with passable accuracy up to about 60-70 ft. Anything above that and my accuracy seems to be an expotentially increasing inverse relationship with my frustration level and the amount of curse words that start flowing under my breath. That's when I have to break out the Big Shot. With a ten ounce weight and 1.75mm Zingit I can easily hit 120+ft shots. With an eight ounce weight probably 150+. I have my Bigshot setup with a trigger though, and this makes it much easier to setup for those really high shots.


The first time I used the bigshot I hauled all the way back on the thing and let go. The weight disappeared into the stratosphere and it took forever to find the thing. I had a huge grin plastered on my face the whole time I was looking, though, cause I was in love!

While we are on the subject of Big Shots- what pole length is everybody using? I use a 10 foot pole- got rid of the 8 because I got tired of sitting on my butt. Anyone else use long poles?

I shoot a 10-12 oz. weight on 1.75 packed in a cube. I rarely get tangles using a cube. Height- 125-150. Monofiliment line and an 8 oz bag will go much higher- but you will have to pull a 4 mil line to see what you have.