I was salty about being ganked by a silent one while out of ammo and stam when posting that. Might still disable due to the sound, though. I play with volume way up to stay on my toes and those things are so loud they're probably damaging my hearing.
Btw, found a bug/exploit with the trader quests in that the wood frame one doesn't actually consume the frames, so you can buy every instance of the quest for free skill points/coins. Not sure if it's like this for any of the others.