Okay, this is a long shot, but it's been driving me nuts.

I am trying to remember a movie based on one scene with a gun. Here's what I remember:
It's in a rural setting, probably Alaska or somewhere like that. The main character is a sheriff/town cop. A person from the town comes into his office and they talk, the person from the village says he's going to go out and kill a polarbear I think, some predator animal if it's not a bear. The sheriff asks him what gun he's using and he replies with some small caliber rifle. The sheriff tells him if he's going to go to at least take his rifle, and hands him a lever action rifle, I believe in stainless steel. I think he said it was a Marlin.

That's all I remember from the movie. It was either a crime drama or a horror movie. Anyone got any ideas?