Great story Mac, here is another.
> By Jim Mann
> The Daily Inter Lake
>
>
>Two aggressive grizzly bears have been shot, one by a hunter and one by a
>Fortine homeowner.
>
>A Kalispell man shot a stalking grizzly bear in the Swan Mountains and a
>Fortine man shot a grizzly at close range, narrowly escaping as the bear
>charged from a chicken coop.
>
>James Beeman picked up a .410-gauge shotgun when he went outside his
>Fortine-area home to investigate a commotion from his chicken coop around
>4 a.m. Sunday.
>
>Wearing a headlamp and expecting a skunk, Beeman saw two bear cubs run
>from the damaged door of the chicken coop. Then an adult grizzly bear
>emerged with a chicken in its mouth.
>
>The bear dropped the chicken and charged from 15 feet. Beeman fired, with
>the muzzle of the gun roughly three feet from the bear, which crumpled to
>ground, dead at Beeman's feet.
>
>It turned out to be an astounding shot, considering a .410 is a light gun
>and the shell contained a light load typically used for quail hunting.
>
>But it hit the bear squarely in the nose, the only soft, vulnerable place
>on a grizzly skull. Pellets likely penetrated the length of the nasal
>cavity to the brain. The wad from the shell was imbedded in the bear's
>nose.
>
>"What's the likelihood of that?" said Ed Kelly, Montana Fish, Wildlife and
>Parks warden captain in Kalispell. "I know guys with .375s who couldn't
>have made a kill like that. He's just a lucky, lucky guy."
>
>Kelly said the shooting was a "justifiable case of self defense."
>
>The bear was a 350-pound female.