Ran into Mr. Milius at the local Sporting Clays range on more than one occasion.
Always shooting something nice ...
"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated." Thomas Paine
Ric, when I lived in L.A., I used to shoot with Milius at the Beverly Hills Gun Club. There was a very small group of us writers who'd get together for an early dinner and then go to the BHGC for an evening of shooting. John would bring a bunch of handguns, including his "Dirty Harry" S&W .44 Mag., and let the other writers fire a few rounds from it.
In 1983, I and a friend of mine who was also a friend of Milius, were going to Colorado for an elk hunt. Milius wanted us to take a custom .375 H&H rifle he'd used in Africa with us, kill an elk with it, as he said, "I want to keep it 'blooded'" We took the rifle but never had a chance to "blood it." It was a beautiful rifle. I can't remember now the name of the custom gunsmith who built it.
John had a stroke a number of years ago. I haven't heard for awhile how he's doing. He was a very good writer.
L.W.
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"Always go straight forward, and if you meet the devil, cut him in two and go between the pieces." (William Sturgis, clipper ship captain, 1830s.)
Ric, when I lived in L.A., I used to shoot with Milius at the Beverly Hills Gun Club. There was a very small group of us writers who'd get together for an early dinner and then go to the BHGC for an evening of shooting. John would bring a bunch of handguns, including his "Dirty Harry" S&W .44 Mag., and let the other writers fire a few rounds from it.
In 1983, I and a friend of mine who was also a friend of Milius, were going to Colorado for an elk hunt. Milius wanted us to take a custom .375 H&H rifle he'd used in Africa with us, kill an elk with it, as he said, "I want to keep it 'blooded'" We took the rifle but never had a chance to "blood it." It was a beautiful rifle. I can't remember now the name of the custom gunsmith who built it.
John had a stroke a number of years ago. I haven't heard for awhile how he'd doing. He was a very good writer.
L.W.
He was a very good writer. And director.
I talked to him about Rough Riders, but scheduling didn't work. I liked him.
We need more writers like him (and you) now.
Hollywood isn't producing crap worth watching. Killing the industry.
