Adequate , what does that mean? Too many better choices for Alaska period! Hunting any animal big or small presents all kinds of scenarios to be encountered. Shots at range, broadside , quartering , head on shots , charges heavy cover etc! This one rifle thing may be economics and that's understandable but to choose the light end of the spectrum is beyond me. I started hunting at 12 years old and was shooting a 30-06 at 14 and weighing a strapping 100 lbs. One of the best female hunters I ever met hunted with a 3006 into her seventies! I never heard her complain about recoil . This is the problem with the fan boy love of the 6.5 CM , it can't be just a great little round , it has to be the greatest thing ever ! Why can't we just say yes you can kill a moose with the CM but there are better choices. Like the man said " just because it will do it, doesn't mean you should.