SABRE Frontiersman Bear Bell, Magnetic Silencer, Durable Hook and Loop Strap Attachment, Helps To Prevent Startling Bears While Hiking

My girlfriend and I just returned from a trip to Alaska where we used these bear bells. I purchased the 4-pack in different colors. These bells work very well. They are loud and can be easily strapped onto your coat, belt loop, pack, or just about anywhere else you can think of. It might take some experimenting to figure out where your natural body movements cause the loudest jingle (for me, it was hanging one on the bottom of my coat). My favorite feature on these is the little magnetic strap that can be easily used to silence the bells. The strap has a small magnet knitted into it, you just have to align the magnet directly with the metal ball in the bell and it sticks to it, preventing all sound. I liked silencing my bells when we were around other people on the trail, and letting them ring when we were more isolated. My only complaint is that on one of the bells, the knitting for the magnet unraveled so if I had kept using it I might have lost the magnet. This wasn't a big deal for me because I noticed before the magnet fell off and we had the extra bells available. I was able to easily knit it back shut when we got home. I would recommend buying one or two extra bells though for this reason. Overall I would highly recommend these!

This is not the cheapest bear bell on the market but I really like this one from SABRE. You can get bear bells starting from $2-3 from Walmart and other utility stores, yes they are cheap and they serve the purpose, but this bear bell comes with a magnetic silencer which I didn’t know I needed. I hang this to my dogs leash so it jingles whenever we go on a walk, but in areas that we know there is low risk of bears, we use the silencer because the bell can be very annoying on long hiking trips. The silencer function is the best in my opinion, it’s one of those things that I immediately fell in love with after trying it. This bell is going to last a very long time, and I’ll gladly pay more for the silencer function.

We trail ride horses and there is always an adventure with wildlife, but this bell gives us peace of mind in those moments we are not chatting or laughing enough for animals to hear us coming up the trail. It has taken me a long time to get a bear bell because I was afraid the noise would become annoying, but honestly you hardly know its there and it is almost like a caravan of gypsies walking through the wilderness and the sound is not offensive at all to us. Two of us have this bell, and I never hear the other rider's, only mine- and I have other brass bells attached along with it and there's a sweet musical chime to them all. So far it has worked- there have been no surprised bears, no spooked boars and the deer are rarely hidden as they perk up and listen to who's coming with these bells on. It's totally worth the price and it is a very nicely made little gadget.

I did a lot of research even for the low cost of this bell, as we encountered a black bear on our walk in the woods a little while ago/ Our dogs are always on leases because of this The volume of the bells is loud enough to be heard but not be invasive or annoying, it has a constant sound as the dogs walk (we have it attached to their harness) reminds you at first of Christmas sounds. We have a medium size and small dog, it is fine for our medium size dog on its harness but for our small dog it is too big for its comfort level, so when we walk the smaller dog alone we just carry the bell ourselves. The magnetic silencer is just fine, it doesn't make it truly silent but it muffles the sound well. Highly recommend for the price, haven't come across and more bears yet hopefully that means the bell is working. Although I do need to say we do carry pepper spray and a air horn as back up.

These are nice bells, good for walking the trials and when we don’t use them for that we hang them in our house to help us tell if there is a earthquake. Might be a funny idea but if you’re not sure there was a earthquake but you hear the Bell ringing then you know for sure :) not sure if it will work for that but just trying to find another use. There is a magnet strap that goes on the bell if you don’t want it to ring, that’s a nice feature that other bear bells don’t have. Good quality.