Dog sled Assembling a dog sled team involves picking leader dogs, point dogs, swing dogs, and wheel dogs. The lead dog is crucial, so mushers take particular care of these dogs. Another important detail is to have powerful wheel dogs to pull the sled out from the snow. Point dogs (optional) are located behind the leader dogs, swing dogs between the point and wheel dogs, and team dogs are all other dogs in between the wheel and swing dogs and are selected for their endurance, strength, and speed as part of the team. In dog sledding, Siberian Huskies or Alaskan Malamutes are
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",