I was in stitches! I'm glad the tape stayed on the arrow, it could've been expensive! I really hate those targets where you have to shoot across a lake!
Years ago I helped a work colleague run ethernet cable through the roof voids of some very long buildings. He started off lifting ceiling tiles at suitable intervals and we passed the cable along attached to the end of a poleabout 3m long. After a day of this we tried a crossbow with a thread attached to the bolt and shot the bolts about 60m (about halfway) and then pulled the thread with the cable attached. It took us about half an hour to do what we had achieved the day before and no messy ceiling tiles.
another colleague managed to use a fly rod to cast a line up 2 storeys in through a window to pull another cable.