Nothing to add other than my name to the list as a fan of Milek's articles. And as another appreciative of this thread, I've really enjoyed it.
+1.
I remember the over-sized sunglasses & that big smile. One of my all time favorite writers.
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Another +1. And I'm another that, when I think of Mr. Milek, it's the sunglasses and the smile that come to mind first.
He's also the reason that I own a .25-06 and a .280. And he helped convince me that I didn't need some sort of magnum cartridge to be consistently successful with deer, antelope and elk, even at extended ranges, even though the hunting club I was a member of was eaten up with the "magnumitis" craze at the time.
He also inspired a varmint hunting friend and I to try our hands at groundhog hunting with handguns. I remember one (or some) of his articles with pictures of groundhogs or rock chucks (or maybe marmots) laid out with the handgun(s) that he had taken them with. My friend bought an XP100 and I couldn't find one at the time, but I found a Ruger Super Blackhawk .44 Mag Silhouette model with 10.5" barrel and, again following his advice, I mounted a 2x Leupold on it. We were death on 'hogs with those rigs - mine loaded hot with 225 and 240 gr bullets - out to some surprising ranges. In fact, I won quite a bit of beer money with my rig at the local shooting club in contests against guys shooting their deer rifles.
I really miss him. He was a great, down-to-earth influence on me, just as I was finally getting to where I could afford to buy a gun or two occasionally.
