What is your point?
Most stories that involve guns are not written in shooting related publications or organizations.
Consider the comments on this thread. Many are about the rifle, because they had personal experience with that rifle.
Many people are interested in that information. Pictures are not always available. The article that reported the use of the firearm referred to it as the woman's "snake rifle". They could, nearly as easily, have referred to it as her Marlin model 60.
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The pertinant point was that she scared off the crud.
Almost any firearm would have accomplished the desired result.