I believe it was 1950 and I was only a few months old, Pop was fighting a fire in the Umatilla National Forest and my Mom and all us kids were at the house below the fire tower. Mom and my siblings verified the story and Pop found the bear outside the house. Mom was fixing dinner and a black bear decided to see what was cooking. Mom was at the sink when the bear decided to come through the kitchen window. Mom grabbed an old Winchester model 62 Pop kept in the rack and started dumping rounds into it. Pop found it about 100 yards from the house with 8 rounds in the head and neck area.
Cool story!