"Well, we have an alarm bell we ring when we have trouble coming, and we ring it again to sound the all-clear..." The woman is interrupted by Sean firing off a shot from his rifle at a bear-like thing in the distance and hitting it square in its side. Sean recognizes the mutated animal as the same kind of weird horror he once fought at night over a campfire - something that could've once been a black bear.
(OOC: the "bear" is SM +1, -4 Range penalty.)
The single shot was not enough to kill it, or even knock it out.