In a range hanging, I guess it was typical to just hang on by the neck till he slowly strangled to death, but the perpetrator struggling would move the rope around making it a quite difficult feat of shooting. Execution hanging I do believe the goal was to drop the perpetrator quickly to the end of the rope and snapping the neck or in some cases of miscalculated drop distance vs the perpetrator’s weight decapitating the perp entirely. I the latter method shooting the rope would have to be done before the drop to save the perp, however in this case the rope is loose rather than taunt and would not have the weight factor to help separate the rope on bullet impact. The whole thing seems quite improbable in real vs static testing.
Total nonsense.....Gene Autry, Roy Rogers or Hopalong Cassidy would have done it with a six-shooter....from horseback, while moving!!!
Three things.
First, if the hanging is done correctly, by the time there is weight on the rope so you can shoot through it, it’s too late, the neck will snap immediately.
Second, In the movie “Quick and the Dead”, the protagonist as a young girl is handed a gun by the bad guy and told she can save her father by shooting through the hanging rope. She misses and shoots him in the head. Now that’s something that would hard to live with, I imagine.
Third, I would think it better to shoot the rope where it is wrapped around the post or limb, so it has a backing. That should work before the weight is applied. And the splintering wood might actually help with cutting the rope.
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