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It would be interesting to go down to the beach where I have lots of room, and do some experimenting with different weight and lines. Might conk a sea lion in the head.

That's mighty impressive for heaving 16 pounds, but I think a person could throw a lighter weight farther. It's like I couldn't throw an anvil past my ding dong, but I could throw a one pound weight quite a bit farther.

Well my definition is, throwing the line and weight similar to the way the athletes do their startup in the Olympic hammer throw. Say, with a 16 oz bag tied to 6 ft of eighth inch poly (slick line) just to hold on to, and that tied to 200-300 feet of 1.75 zing-it, laid out on a tarp, or clean...

Hammer throw on steroids is more like it.

Now that's another thing altogether. A novice using the hammer throw can easily knock out a window a block away. Timing the release is everything with it.

Luck plays a little part, it mostly is skill. Hand throwing for me is "Some days I got it and some days I don't." Most the high throwers I know just use the plain old underhand lob shot. Cradle shots I only see used for exhibition.

Dave, That was Andy Augustinovich. He was a pitcher in the local minor leagues and the best with a throwline, well until I met those other guys years later. Of course the weights and line all changed for the better too.

When it comes to hand throwing my friends pale me in comparison. Greg Liu and Jesse Bawcum's upper limits are around 100 feet with fair accuracy. In 2005 I took some Germans and Dains to the redwoods (on separate occasions) and they were routinely hand throwing 120 feet. I was really...

After about 70 feet I'm a terrible thrower and if I don't get the limb by the third attempt I'll break out the Big Shot. It's a great device for us handicap throwers. Still some limbs are plain tough to get a line over from the ground, and so sometimes I take the runner up just to get things...