It's not Alaska but still there's bears they deal with and some of these folks also hunt.
The Russians use that old Mosin in their taiga and arctic for hunting and wolf and bear management.
On Svalbard 98 Mausers rebarreled to 30-06 are employed for bear duty.
The Sirius patrol in Greenland uses an M1917 30-06 and glock 20 for bear protection, emergency hunting, and engagement of foreign powers and enforcement in prot3cted areas and national parks preserves.
And we have the Canadian home guard or rangers that used an old 303 SMLE and only recently switched to an Tikka in 308win.
