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Was a gunwriter who really got me going as a kid and young man on rifles and hunting. He had some interesting articles and remembered him using an xp 100 a good bit. No offense to any gunwriter or gun magazines that are current but if you want to sell some magazines maybe you need to take a look back Just my opinion. Not that it matters to any one else but me

I enjoyed him too. Cowboy hat and aviator style shooting glasses, and if I remember right, quite a few articles on varmint hunting. Usually good photography to accompany the article.

He was the main inspiration of my XP-100 addiction......

Bob had a huge effect on my father, starting him on a decades-long love of all things Contender. I confess I have also been significantly altered in my shooting and hunting drives by the writings of Mr. Milek.

In some of Bob's hunting articles he was using 25-06 and 7x57 Mausers. So I bought a 25-06 and discovered they were lots of fun.

I loved the sound of "Thermopolis".

He was one of the best.

When I started reloading if bob said it I considered it golden. My first reloading manual is a Lyman and he wrote about reloading for hunting and thanks to Bob I FL size my hunting ammo.

He is the primary reason for my fondness for the 25’s.
GreggH

I remember a lot of chucks and pronghorn pics and yes on the varmiting and the 220 swift and 25-06

I read everything he wrote at least twice. Truly one of my first heroes.

North of Thermop next to the highway is a range dedicated to Bob Milek. I guess it’s on owl creek

I liked him so much as a writer, and wanted to meet him, that on one summer vacation, I drove from Wi. through "Ten Sleeps Pass" down into Thermoplis to one of his favorite hang outs, just miss him by 15 minutes..

I really like him as well, this thread brings back memories when I was first getting into guns as a teenager and reading Milek's articles. I still have one of the thick magazines published with a compilation of his articles, "Rifle and Cartridges for North American Game", which I read over and over when I was young (and am going to pull out tonight to start reading again).

I really liked the articles written by Mr. Millek, and had the opportunity to visit with him twice! He had quite the reloading room! memtb

I remember Bob speaking of "the wicked bark of the 25-06" that he hunted with a lot. He was also a handgun hunter and a fan of the 35 Whelen but when I think of Bob Milek I think of the 25-06. It took me many years but I did finally get one and just recently had the honor to give it to my grandson.

Here's an old thread about Bob Milek. Many good memories from Ken Howell.
https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbt...66/what-happened-to-bob-milek#Post500866

I was driving thru Thermopolis many years ago and a small pickup pulled in behind me and the driver wearing a crunched cowboy hat had a familiar looking silhouette I'd seen in some hunting magazines.
Just outside town north toward Owl Creek he pulled in a driveway and I took note of the location.
My next trip by some weeks later I saw a name scrawled on the mailbox.
"Milek"

Liked him as well. I remember reading many of the other writers at the time pushing the magnum craze, then opening a magazine to find Milek hunting mule deer with an xp-100 in 250 Savage. Successfully.

Have seen that mailbox several times.

Always enjoyed reading Bob's articles, and in fact stopped him at the very first SHOT Show I attended in 1988 to tell him so. We have a great conversation, and talked about getting together some time, since we lived less than a day's drive apart. Unfortunately, he passed away, too young, before we could.

But did get to know his son, Bob Jr., pretty well during the early 2000s on several "industry" shoots, when he was also writing for various gun magazines. He looked, talked and wrote a LOT like his dad!