Sled dog racing Sled dog racing Sled dog racing (sometimes termed dog sled racing) is a winter dog sport most popular in the Arctic regions of the United States, Canada, Russia, Greenland and some European countries. It involves the timed competition of teams of sled dogs that pull a sled with the dog driver or "musher" standing on the runners. The team completing the marked course in the least time is judged the winner. A sled dog race was a demonstration sport at the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York and again at the Olympics in Oslo, and once more in
Sirius Dog Sled Patrol M2 military rifle round and also civilian hollow-points. The patrolmen feel that the M2 military round is best against aggressive polar bears at long range, but that the hollow-points are better against an enraged musk ox. Typically, the patrolmen arrange their stripper clips so every third round is a hollow-point. The patrol formerly used "Pistol M/49" sidearms chambered in 9×19mm Parabellum, but they proved insufficient against the polar bears encountered. Sirius Dog Sled Patrol The Sirius Dog Sled Patrol (), known informally as "Siriuspatruljen" (the Sirius Patrol) and formerly known as "North-East Greenland Sledge Patrol" and "Resolute Dog Sled Patrol",