Replace Sling on Big Shot Launcher
- Thread starter JCB
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I have a 2:1 system with a trigger on my BS, There are multiple pics in the archives already. The Search should be able to find them easily.
I guess im not using the search properly. I looked up big shot, and this thread came up. Then it started referencing threads about buckingham gaffs and other threads that had nothing to do with big shot. Its happened to me before. I look up a topic on search and find nothing, so i post what i think is a new topic, and people start posting that its a topic already covered. Honest, im not being lazy, i must just not be using it correctly.
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- My Island, WA
It’s pretty common if you know the right people
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- Retired in Minneapolis
I did ‘big shot trigger’
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This one is: big shot release trigger
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Good to know.
JCB
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A stitch in time . . .
When using a prusik and release mechanism on the Big Shot, I found that re-creating the prusik for each shot was annoying. So, I studied the range of motion necessary to both cinch the prusik, and to relax it enough to move it. I then used some whipping twine to capture that movement. The prusik maintains its shape and cannot slide off either end of the base pole: It's always at hand.
My "trigger" consists of a short length of old throwline with an overhand-knot loop at each end. This forms a sacrificial trigger that I cut with small, very sharp scissors; just tension, aim, and snip. I stuff a bunch of throwline into a small plastic container with a hole in the lid, and pull out the length I need to make a trigger. Great way to use old line.
When using a prusik and release mechanism on the Big Shot, I found that re-creating the prusik for each shot was annoying. So, I studied the range of motion necessary to both cinch the prusik, and to relax it enough to move it. I then used some whipping twine to capture that movement. The prusik maintains its shape and cannot slide off either end of the base pole: It's always at hand.
My "trigger" consists of a short length of old throwline with an overhand-knot loop at each end. This forms a sacrificial trigger that I cut with small, very sharp scissors; just tension, aim, and snip. I stuff a bunch of throwline into a small plastic container with a hole in the lid, and pull out the length I need to make a trigger. Great way to use old line.
Winchman
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- Southwest Georgia
I put the throw bag under the pole with the line bucket several feet in front of the pole. If the bucket is too close, the line will catch on the yoke.
I found it impossible to hold tension and aim well, so I came up with a simple block and tackle arrangement using two prussic knots on the pole to hold the tension. I use an inexpensive panic snap as a trigger release.
I load the bag in the pouch, push the lower prussic to the end of the pole, and then push the upper prussic to set the tension. I push against the dowels to loosen the knots as I slide the prussics along the pole.
I found it impossible to hold tension and aim well, so I came up with a simple block and tackle arrangement using two prussic knots on the pole to hold the tension. I use an inexpensive panic snap as a trigger release.
I load the bag in the pouch, push the lower prussic to the end of the pole, and then push the upper prussic to set the tension. I push against the dowels to loosen the knots as I slide the prussics along the pole.
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dmonn
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- Port Washington Wisconsin
Love the creativity on this thread. I use a bow release trigger (stole the idea) as my release. I use a tie down strap to adjust the release point, but then muscle the pouch down to the trigger (my version of a pre-climb warmup). That way the tension stays set so I can adjust it for a slightly higher or lower shot if I miss the first one. It's not real pretty or neat and tidy, but it's very functional.
I did a slight mod on the release trigger. I added some accessory cord to the pouch to accommodate the release trigger. I also added a ring at the base of the pole to make it easy to adjust the tie down strap, and a bit of bungy cord to keep things at least a little neater.
I did a slight mod on the release trigger. I added some accessory cord to the pouch to accommodate the release trigger. I also added a ring at the base of the pole to make it easy to adjust the tie down strap, and a bit of bungy cord to keep things at least a little neater.
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Fantastic thread, thank you all. Answered all my questions. (Well, I haven't done it yet, but I think that's all the questions I will have };-) Great tips!! I guess Hosocat has a method by now since your post is a few months old, but IMO you should always run the throwline over, and in between, the metal rods. I place my throwline about 4 ft in front of the BigShot, closer to where I'm aiming, opposite the side of the pole where I'm shooting. I lift the line over and in between the fork of the tool, down to the bag in the pouch. I always orient the metal ring in my throwbags toward me, not toward the pole, and I center the weight of the bag in the pouch. Not necessarily the contour of the bag, but the heaviest part in the center of the pouch. The lighter part of the bag, and metal attachment ring, usually hang over the edge of the pouch, pointing toward me.
Ha ha you call that SIMPLE??? You're a rigger @ heart
I copied Moss when he used an archery trigger, before he went Wichard. I have a dedicated lower pole section. Three basic features. The Moss idea was use plastic pipe and Tee to make a slideable anchor structure. Strip the archery release right down to the 10-32 stud and put that stud through drilled holes in the Tee, I threaded a small aluminum block 1" x 3/8"x3/8" with 10-32 to match the archery thread and probably a coarser thread to match an "eye" like for hooking a gate latch, sticking out the down side. The joiner block resides inside the Tee. I then tie a prussic directly to that eye. Second feature, one wrap of bungee to keep prussic in place when not loaded. 3rd feature sharpie numbers on the pole, not as calibrated height, but as repeatable or quantifiable shots. I refer to the pipe edge and number. The pipe tends the prussic.
You use both hands to push the pipe down to the desired number, usually after hooking the pouch and slight pretension and loading the bag, and the pipe Tee forms an upper handle to support the rig during aiming and positions your thumb for hair pressure shot release, Two 4 or 5 foot-ish poles cover everything I do. I'm not in the PNW.
My daily unit eats 12" of pole length, archery jaw to end of prussic. My compact lightweight version on a short light pole with crazy stiff rubber is only 5 1/2" long stem to stern. That one is so light it kicks too much (for my liking) when I shoot. But a backup is better than S.O.L.
Oh, and I carry a tiny bottle of Everclear for field repair should the need arise. Trim the cracked tubes, reinstall.
You use both hands to push the pipe down to the desired number, usually after hooking the pouch and slight pretension and loading the bag, and the pipe Tee forms an upper handle to support the rig during aiming and positions your thumb for hair pressure shot release, Two 4 or 5 foot-ish poles cover everything I do. I'm not in the PNW.
My daily unit eats 12" of pole length, archery jaw to end of prussic. My compact lightweight version on a short light pole with crazy stiff rubber is only 5 1/2" long stem to stern. That one is so light it kicks too much (for my liking) when I shoot. But a backup is better than S.O.L.
Oh, and I carry a tiny bottle of Everclear for field repair should the need arise. Trim the cracked tubes, reinstall.
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You write very well; you'd B a good technical writer. Ahhhhh-mazing. (Moss is the best ain't he?!??) I'm just kind of surprised that U use this much craft for a Big Shot launch. Compared to my avg. cradle throw max height, I view my BigShot as a GD miracle. Just plain Jane, 8ft 1-piece Neander-tool that it is. I just look up, take an intentional breath (or two), kneel/pull, eye it up, and let the f___ker go. LOL!!! And HEY!! I was just looking thru Wes Spur's catalog, and I noticed, the pic of the guy doing the Big Shot... He's doing it 'upside down'! Ha ha! Here I am giving advice to someone else saying, "thread the throwline thusly blah blah..." and maybe I been doing it WRONG since day 1. I position the fork at the top, and shoot thru it, not underneath like the picture. I will definitely try it that way. But no doubt, that thing's a LIFEsaver. Actually, a TIMEsaver. I never go to a job w/out it. Oh yeah, and Everclear. Great stuff. When all the greedy COVID runts hoarded up ISO alcohol, which I been using for decades for most all my household sanitizing needs, I turned to EVERCLEAR. Not too shabby. And hey... it does double duty! ROTFLMAO
