H999 contest

[Warren B. MusselmanModerator]

Now THAT’s funny… I clearly remember my ex-wife complaining about what I spent on a Remington 700ADL and a top-end Leupold scope, hunting clothes, and a whole bunch of other stuff to hunt deer and elk when we moved to Colorado. After a whole bunch of deer and a couple elk, I figure I’m probably down to $10 a pound or so by now…

Back to rockets though… cost/benefit is never a part of a hobby… hobbies are where you burn spare money because of the kick it gives you. Doing the egg competition or the SSS or SSSS or even the proposed SDSSS (K, L or M motor) is nice if the pot is big enough, but still worth doing for bragging rights alone or just the thrill of doing it. This is a hobby after all… and if you can’t burn some money on it, why are you here? Fishing is a lot cheaper.

Warren

[Anonymous]

Fishing is a lot cheaper.

Warren

You’ve clearly never been flyfishing (one of my other great passions). VERY expensive gear. Oh well.

Point is that if you like horses, skiing, sailing, skydiving, insert-your-favorite-passion here, it will cost money. Lots of it.

My cousin loves to sail. I asked him to teach me. He said that as a litmus test I should just fill the bathtub with ice, add a bit of water, and lay in there for a while. Then, every 15 minutes or so, I should reach over to the toilet and flush a $100 bill. He said that if I liked that routine, I’d love sailing…….

[Warren B. MusselmanModerator]

John, I’ve flyfished probably as many places as you – the Madison, the Firehole, the Galatin and damn near every fishable mile of the Platte and scads and scads of backwoods places in Colorado including almost every lake, pond, creek and river in the National Park. I haven’t fished Alaska, but I have fished outside Banff and Jasper and a few places in BC and even caught a few Grayling and an Artic Char.

About 3 years ago, I gave away probably $1500 worth of Grade 1 hackle and most of my fly tying equipment since I hadn’t tied a fly in 10 years or more. I kept a lot of stuff, but gave away 2 vices and tons of other stuff. I still have my great Uncle’s 1920 vintage Orvis split bamboo rod and a number of graphite rods. Yes I do know how expensive fly fishing is. It might even be one of the reasons my first wife and I parted company. Whirling disease is what ruined it for me. I still go up and run the Green below Flaming Gorge every year or two and I’d love to do a drift trip with you sometime.

Warren

[Dr. Michael Sutter DC]

Im not worried about costs! im just saying its kinda what you get into when you want to play… you have to pay to play! Try playing in RC heli’s
every hobby store loves to sell heli’s cause they know you will be back for parts:) rockets can be one of the cheaper hobbies (unless you are Art Hoag who philosophy is i think is “go big or go home” 8) )

I just like this challenge cause it would be interesting to see the results of what an egg can do in a modified rocket. An estes scrambler and all the other model rocket egg lofts are neat, but this contest takes this to a more extreme level. which is not crazy money to get something up but a lot of ingenuity and thought processes to make an egg withstand the force that is created upon it. its not just about lets getting to 20.000 ft on a J350 motor, its about you making your cargo survive and going as high as one can go with a H999N

[denverdoc]

I like it too, and if it goe well can even see a dual egg loft alt with a fast I or J. More fun than the cannon balls (baby Bowling balls) IMO.
Tho, that has challenges of its own.
John S

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