Surprise encounter with mother grizzly in Montana ends with bear killed, man shot in shoulder
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Two men shot an adult grizzly bear in Montana, and one of the men was shot in the back, after a surprise encounter in the forest, officials said in a news statement on Monday.
The 25-year-old female grizzly bear was out with her cub when she ran into the two men in a thick section of the woods near the Smokey Range Trailhead off Canyon Creek Road in the Flathead National Forest, officials said. The men were scouting for hunting season on Aug. 26, when they came within 15 feet of the bears.
The mother grizzly bear charged at the men, investigators said, and the men fired. One of the men was shot in the back shoulder during the incident, but investigators didn't release information on how that occurred. Investigators at Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks determined the incident happened in self-defense.

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