I used to enjoy watching the Hailstones up until this season. I appreciate and acknowledge that hunting, trapping, killing is the nature of the beast in Alaska. I have been hunting since I was old enough for my father to put a rifle in my young hands. They however have gone well and way past sustenance hunting and kill everything that moves for the sake of profit. I don't like Chip. I think he is full of crap, smug, and nauseating. I think he married an Inupiaq so he could be as greedy and selfish as he could possibly be and piggyback on her ability to have different rules/limits for hunting than he could as a non native. I think he uses her. I don't for one second believe that if Agnes were on her own she would spend each and every day killing well past what she needs to feed her family. I used to admire her the first season but now she seems like a subservient puppet with Chip pulling her strings. I think they spit out as many kids as they could to take advantage of the oil dividends that this year was the third largest ever as well as the extra dividends paid out to natives. From what I gather they are doing quite well financially. They admittedly trap and kill far more than they need to survive and I'm tired of his tired BS about teaching his daughters how to blah blah blah for their future. These girls will surely NOT be living off the land when they get older. The have been "Americanized" to the point that they will most likely find husbands who are not natives just like their Mom did, marry and move into the cities. Stop pretending you are doing something noble. You are raping the land, using your wife as an excuse/stepping stone, cashing in on big oil profits and the money the show pays you each year to follow your brood around. They have no need to be killing as much as they do, they have long since surpassed sustenance hunting and are just greedy fueled by money profiteers. The new Alaskan capitalists. Everyone else on the show kills only what they need to survive. The entire season this year following them has been nothing more than a huge bloodbath. I abhor their segments now. I hope the show drops them like a bad habit next season
