shot/ throw bag weights

southsoundtree

southsoundtree

Been here much more than a while
Location
Olympia, WA
what sized do you use for what purposes in what types of trees.

In western Washington, we have a lot of tall conifers (tallest that I had to shot into were over 100' easily) and sorta tall bigleaf maples (70').

I've been using a 10 and 14 ounce. My 10 got stuck in the tree yesterday, and my 14 is down to about 4 due to a ripped seam. I ordered a 12, 16, and 20 oz. Looking forward to the variety.

Most line setting is high with the BigShot, or low with the bigshot or hand thrown.

Been using throwlines for about 2 years.


Tips/ advice?
 
Around here I love my 8ounce rocket. Few trees are over 70'. Most are in the 40' range.

I was able to set a throwline 120' up a redwood with a 8 ounce rocket and fishing line on the big shot. I typically use a 4 ounce weight for this purpose.

What throwline are you using? That changes thing a lot.

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I love my big shot and weights. I don’t know what I would do without it. I set up a sick drift line the other day on a big willow removal. Set the drift line up from the ground and up the tree I went. It was nice to cut one large limb and let slide away from the house I was working over.
 
12 oz. gets it done most days if I have to move it around a rough bark tree I just throw a biner on the bag with it.

Let me know how the 20 oz. works. Seems like lots of weight.
 
Well, I'm not even in the same league with you guys (rec climber), but since I never use gaffs, I do a lot of throwing and shooting. I and a buddy have shot 1.75mm ZingIt and 8 oz throwbags into some pretty tall pines and we don't have a lot of problems with that combo.

However, recently I've upped my throwbag weight to 10 oz. One reason I did was because I discovered Buckingham throwbags at On Rope 1 for, you sittin' down - $8.50 ea. - that's a lot cheaper than I've seen anywhere else. So I got two 10 oz - they don't carry 8 oz, but I don't know that I would have got 8 oz if they did, I kinda wanted to try the 10 oz and haven't looked back.

I use the 10 oz with both 2.2 mm and 1.75 ZingIt and have shot them a lot!!! I've never had one hang, well that wouldn't have hung a 12 or 14 oz as well and I really like the response and feel of the 10 oz.

I've bounced these things off of tree trunks, limbs, they've hit the ground after 50 foot falls, and they are holding up marvelously. If they both broke on the next shot, I'd go buy two more. I've sure got my money's worth out of them.
 
I find I rely mostly on my 10oz. I too have an 8oz rocket that I love. However, the bark of the trees is usually the deciding factor for me.

My combos (one bag on each end of my throwlines) are:

8oz - 12oz (1.75 Zing it-yellow)
10oz - 14oz (1.75 FlingIt-orange)

Really like having the different colored throwlines for the different combos.
 
I seem to find myself using a 12 or 14oz alot. Probably the main reason is because we work on alot of silver maples and big papershell pecans and the bark is rough on the pecans to begin with, but the crotches on both seem to hang smaller bags and it is very hard to get them to come down. Sucks bigtime when u hit that high perfect crotch and u cant seem to get your bag to come down!!! UGHH. Oh and also I use 2.2 mm zingit because imo it seems to tangle alot less in the cube.

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So what does Mr. One Shot, One Kill use.... eh, Stephan?

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he uses a pen and paper now a days

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I'll bet he's gotten pretty good with baby wipes by now too... sure has been scarce lately.
 
I use a little less than 8oz (broke open once and i restitched it) for most of my throws. I also have a 10 oz as a back up for when I get he 8oz stuck and also keep a 14 and 16 oz around for the rough bark trees. I use zing-it through line and love the stuff it almost never tangles on me.
 
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