Alaskan Native....is kinda vauge......is much like saying European or Asian......it's a vast state.....and at least 13 different Nations.
.Its only residents, of any ethnicity, who lives in game unit 23 or 26 that can shoot from a boat, picking out winters meats at freeze up from the tightly packed Caribou swimming in a river, pithing the fat bulls with no pass through shots exiting the brain cavity, with .22lr, that would end up wounding others......its definitely an instant death, no meat loss at all.
Fact is the very popular/accurate/deadly .223 Rem makes nasty exit wounds, and tracking blood on snow is not hard to do.
Pound for pound, my .22lr has made more meat than my Mosin, and when hunting for food the meat making is simply skipping the store, and going directly for the goods.