Coghlan's Bear Bell with Magnetic Silencer

Price : $7.73

Product Description

Movement causes a steady ringing to warn animals of your presence.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B001UHUUZ2
  

Product Features

• Attaches to clothing or pack with a velcro strap
• Magnet in bag eliminates noise when not in use

 

Coghlan's Bear Bell with Magnetic Silencer

 

Customer Reviews

Perhaps I am a rare person who can honestly say a bear bell may have saved my hide, but yesterday evening I'm fairly confident it did exactly that. I was hiking in the Angeles Nat'l Forest and had one of the blue bear bells with the magnetic silencer on my pack. Note that I was hiking alone on this trip.
As I turned to go into a lightly traveled canyon, I moved the magnetic silencer so the bell was doing its thing.
About a mile up the canyon, I rounded the end of thick canyon wall to enter another canyon - and ran straight into the biggest ing bear I've ever seen in my life. Seriously. He heard the bell before he saw me, he was already running in the other direction by the instant we could make visual contact. Note that I was downwind of this huge dude. He galloped off about 50' and turned to look at me full-on. Ugh! This guy was a monster! A California "black" bear - very brown with standard tan muzzle. As big as a small sofa and twice the height and width. Major crap.
Me? I held my arms up, looked 'big', and stepped backwards back around the corner carefully. Once I was around the corner again, I hit the trail home, checking behind me all the while.
I'm fairly confident that being downwind like I was and with the two of us meeting right at the end of a thick canyon wall, that without the noise of the bell we would have met almost face to face. NO THANK YOU.
After last night, I really don't care if the bell is ever useful like that again. I will always have one when I'm in the hills. It's a little thing, but I'm good with that.

Title pretty much sums it up. After a day of listening to the bell, turning it off at camp will save your and their sanity. It is also nice to know where the people you are hiking with are around you.