Has anyone seen a sleeping bear (bedded)?

[luvmystang67]

I've seen lots of deer beds, but never a bear bed.  Has anyone ever seen a sleeping bear in the wild anywhere?  For bonus points, does anyone have a pic that isn't from google images or taken from a zoo?

[Woodchuck]

Jager on here has, he has a pic of it through his rifle scope. I have a pic of the bear after the shot but can't find the one through the scope anymore.

[WSU]

Yes.  I saw one asleep on a big rock in the sun once.  That was the most obvious.

[Curly]

Billythekidrock shot one while it was sleeping.

[RadSav]

The wife almost landed on a sleeping bear when she took a tumble up Stevens about ten years ago.  Not sure who was more scared.  She is still angry with me for laughing.

We see a lot of them sleeping in the fall.  All that sugar and sunshine makes a bear vewy vewy sleepy apparently.

I have seen a few sleeping in deer beds, but usually they sleep where they are when they get tired.  They don't seem to care too much once they leave their dens cruising for ripe berries.  We probably don't see many bear beds now that there is no baiting because they are always on the move.  In fall that probably means a different bedding place every couple of days.

[Woodchuck]

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,86374.msg1086798.html#msg1086798

[luvmystang67]

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,86374.msg1086798.html#msg1086798

I never read that before, looks like an awesome trip.  I just was curious how they sleep and what they look like.  Kind of looks like they just pass out about how a person would.

[180-GRAIN]

I took a buddy out a few years back and I spotted a nice bear asleep on a downed tree about 130 yards away from us. I tried to talk him into grabbing a rest for the shot but being the first bear he had actually seen hunting he tried a free hand shot and pulled it. Bear woke up in a hurry and got outta dodge quick!

[DOUBLELUNG]

A wildlifer friend in Wyoming was sneaking through some doghair lodgepole on a moose hunt when he heard a sound he didn't recognize, repeated every few seconds.  An avid birder, he was excited that maybe he would see a new bird species, as he was in high wilderness outside Yellowstone.  He eventually focused in on the big boar grizzly sleeping 30 yards to his right, snoring. 

[buglebrush]

Have seen several napping on rocks in the sun.

[RadSav]

A wildlifer friend in Wyoming was sneaking through some doghair lodgepole on a moose hunt when he heard a sound he didn't recognize, repeated every few seconds.  An avid birder, he was excited that maybe he would see a new bird species, as he was in high wilderness outside Yellowstone.  He eventually focused in on the big boar grizzly sleeping 30 yards to his right, snoring.

Wholly &*^%   I'd be leaving a pee trail in a hurry.  I don't mind being face to face with blackbear, but I like distance between griz and I!

[boneaddict]

Yes.   I jumped over a log one time and landed on one. 

[Jonathan_S]

I have some trail cam pics but they'd be too graphic...

[DOUBLELUNG]

Yes.   I jumped over a log one time and landed on one. 

Did you mark him out the gate and hang on for 8 seconds?

[Woodchuck]

Yes.   I jumped over a log one time and landed on one.

I would pay good money to see that.