I ain't gonna buy $10 worth of shells to get 89 cents worth of the stuff

I can see you ain't bought any fresh ammo in a while.

An alternate method might be to tie a weight on a stout string and try to fling it up to pull down some mistletoe. People use that method to put up ropes to hang their flags on at festival; but we've had two dislocated shoulders and three or four sprained elbows among the "kids" who find they're not as athletic as they think they were "back when."

Ladders beyond about 15 - 20 feet off the ground are one of the most dangerous tools you can try to use. Most of the "trimmers" around here use the ladder to get into the tree, and then just shinny up to what needs trimmed. Your tree probably needs some pruning anyway, so if you know your ropes just climb the tree and cut off the branch that's got a good bunch of what you want(?). The mistletoe isn't really good for the health of the tree anyway.

(But if you don't know how to rig good safety ropes, stay out of that tree.)

John