However, could be that Sue Aiken's choice of a semi-automatic. 30-'06 is still considered a good choice for Alaska, despite all the. It's his idea of an ideal all-around rifle for everything. Likes the suppressor as a silencer more than recoil reducer. At his blog site, Villaneuve describes it as a Ruger M77 MKII in 30-06 with a Leupold 2-7x scope and an SRT Shadow XL TI suppressor. We see what looks like a stainless steel Ruger 77, but no caliber mentioned. Its the gun used by Glen Villaneuve, hunting from his camp in the Brooks Range, that draws lots of questions, because of the "can" at the muzzle. Shows it with a scope mounted, although in the TV series, Agnes is shooting it with open sights. Picture at the above above site shows how long the barrel is, with that bolt sticking out. The old gun used by Chip and Agnes Hailstone is apparently a Mosin Nagant 91/30, what the Finns used in WW-II. 308, which is a reasonable compromise for a woman. However, knowledgeable gun mavens opine that it must be the AR-10 in. 223/5.56 M4 type, which is not enough gun for brown bear. Mystery about her using what looked like a semi-automatic of the. Issue comes up about what rifle she was shooting on that recent episode of bear hunting, where she shot a grizzly at about 150 yards. She likes to carry around really big pistols, evidently because she's out there alone and once had a bear mauling. 22 for shooting grouse and ptarmigan, which seems a good choice, but then switched at least once to some kind of lever action, not sure what caliber. Sue Aikens, managing her airfield resupply station north of the Arctic Circle is evidently wealthy enough and interested enough to own a whole collection of guns but then she keeps changing them around.
The BBC series on "life Below Zero" in Alaska, featuring several regulars and their lifestyles, has lots of guns pictured, but not much information about them.