Life Below Zero

Armadillofz1 · Jul 1, 2014

The Nat Geo show commercial showed a quick 2 second shot of someone shooting a hex mosin. Just thought it was neat.

Don H · Jul 1, 2014

I'm guessing that was Agnes Hailstone, the Eskimo gal.
Great show.

kmittleman · Jul 1, 2014

Don H said:
I'm guessing that was Agnes Hailstone, the Eskimo gal.
Great show.

My favorite show right now. Her husband Chip is a member over at Survivalist Boards and Gun Boards. He was talking about why the Mosin is his top pick for arctic conditions and apparently uses surplus ball ammo for a lot of his hunting. He goes by Caribou on those forums I believe.

Armadillofz1 · Jul 1, 2014

Ill set the tv to record. The premiss of the show sounds interesting.

Melnic · Jul 1, 2014

She often shoots a Finn M39. She has a Mosin Sniper and they have a Nagant Revolver I've seen and I think I may have spotted a Tok once.
Contrast that to the Lone guy up in Wiseman who had an AR out hunting once and it froze up on him once hunting Carabou.

Inigoes · Jul 1, 2014

Melnic said:
the Lone guy up in Wiseman who had an AR out hunting once and it froze up on him once hunting Carabou.

You will also notice, he is walking around sporting a suppressor also.

metalman3006 · Jul 1, 2014

Her husband posts over on gunboards

http://forums.gunboards.com/showthread.php?354986-Arctic-camping-in-March-and-more&highlight=caribou

Sunir · Jul 2, 2014

I'm watching it right now on DVR...that dude with the dogs is out mushing on the frozen tundra and over the frozen water bits... Chip is talking about carabou again... I don't know how the heck these guys survive in such conditions, must be very rewarding in some ways to live such a sustainable and back to basics existence.

ken792 · Jul 2, 2014

I've never seen this show, but I Googled it. It's clearly an M39.

Minuteman · Jul 2, 2014

I've been watching it, cool show, pun intended.

I thought I recognized that rifle, the wife (pictured above) is the hunter and a very good shot. One episode they kill (letting her daughter also shoot) several caribou in a herd swimming to cross a river. They skin and eat or trade them all, no waste.

Good show, check it out.

K31 · Jul 2, 2014

Minuteman said:
I've been watching it, cool show, pun intended.

I thought I recognized that rifle, the wife (pictured above) is the hunter and a very good shot. One episode they kill (letting her daughter also shoot) several caribou in a herd swimming to cross a river. They skin and eat or trade them all, no waste.

Good show, check it out.

If it's the same episode I saw, most of them were shot in the head with a .22 (at close range) the Mosin came into play little if at all.

MacGuns · Jul 2, 2014

I just started watching it on Hulu. They have all of the episodes there.

http://www.hulu.com/life-below-zero

Melnic · Jul 2, 2014

That M39 gets plenty a work out in other episodes and she is a pretty good offhand shooter with it. Watch enough episodes and you will see when they zero the Mosin sniper.

Sunir · Jul 2, 2014

The show is okay. not great not bad, nothing groundbreaking like Ice Road truckers in 2007, season 1. In fact the networks have jumped hard on the Alaskan bandwagon with a bunch of shows with that focus over the last 2 years. Alaska State Troopers, Survival in Alaska, Alaska's Last Frontier just to name a few.

Here's my take on Life Below zero in a nutshell - The woman Sue who has a camp over there is always complaining. The Hailstone's are hunting and making cloths, I could swear they add one more kid with each passing episode, no wonder they need so much seal fat! lol ;-) The dog musher is always talking about how hard his life and how dogs are like people, over and over and over again. The only one I like watching is that dude in isolation in the camp, I learn something new every time with that dude, last episode he showed how to make a lamp from melted caribou fat and shrubs for heaven's sake... a skill I never hope to use but good to know next time in in Alaska, which is like never, I'm tropical folk, no cold places for me!

Minuteman · Jul 2, 2014

K31 said:
If it's the same episode I saw, most of them were shot in the head with a .22 (at close range) the Mosin came into play little if at all.

Yep, that's the episode; I think they let the daughter kill them all.

SS396 · Jul 2, 2014

I like Life Below Zero, but I think I prefer Mountain Men; particularly the guy who flies the airplane.

marko12 · Jul 3, 2014

LBZ is a great show and Agnes always shoots without a scope. Yep, seems like they add a kid or two every year.

The guy that flies the plane is always breaking down on his snowmobile. :ohnoes:

The guy who lives alone I believe has a family in town, he likes to say I can take a bath at -20 degrees below zero and sometimes at -50 below zero.

Inigoes · Jul 4, 2014

Marathon is on today

retrorichard · Jul 4, 2014

That sue lady seems very tough. In googling her she has survived a bear attack.

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