Originally Posted by
Murdy
I'm not really sure that a bow is safer than either one of them.
Well, that really depends. If his closest neighbor is 60-70 yards, I would argue that the bow is much safer than either one.
Granted, you're not going to sustain much in the way of an injury if you get hit with a pellet at that distance (an arrow could really jack you up still), but typically you're shooting into the ground when you're shooting at rabbits. I think there is a much smaller chance of an arrow being deflected and damaging anything, than if you were to ricochet a 22lr round off a rock and send it to god knows where.
Hard to say really without knowing the layout, but I feel much safer shooting a bow in my yard than anything else. Especially at the angle that you typically shoot rabbits at.