HorseHanging

Interesting clip from a Latino movie

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[rodc333]

ah well, you may do it with a well aimed shot of a .577 but if you'll note the pistole is not aimed and was in actuality a .44 or .45... my guess is that with the slack her neck would have broke from the blunt trauma of the horse movement and the ropes sudden taunt...

[davidgrahamscott]

I thought the video was about an actual horse being hanged

[barliman2001]

@wiseguymaybe As I said - the video will be online in a few days. I'm on a business trip just now and can't attend to it, but it will be done soon.

[wiseguymaybe]

@barliman2001 I would indeed be interested in seeing your video and it's results.

[barliman2001]

Auf dieses Video antworten...  Actually, the myth of the shot-through rope is no Hollywood invention. It has its roots in an incident during the Civl War, when a guy was mistaken for another and to be hanged. He was on the ladder, when a messenger arrived with the news that the real culprit had been arrested. He could not reach the gallows in time, so he took his Shiloh-Sharps and shot through the rope to gain time to deliver his message. See report in the St. Louis Times.

[barliman2001]

@wiseguymaybe video will be on youtube within a day or two - including an explanation of the setup. You know - Mythbusters regularly make one or more of the following mistakes:

1 They don't take the correct materials

2. They take modern weapons

3. They don't research. TBC

[wiseguymaybe]

My appologies dibert1, I meant to say Sticking90 is the one disagreeing the point.

[wiseguymaybe]

@barliman2001 Interesting. A Martini-Henry rifle is indeed a contemporary gun and very much available in the late 1800. So IT CAN BE DONE delbard1. Don't believe everything you see on televison. And by the way, thanks barliman2001. I would have said not to go to that much trouble to prove a point....but I think you enjoyed yourself on that shooting range.

[barliman2001]

@barliman2001 I will put the video up as soon as possible.

And remember when Mythbusters wanted to cut down a tree with machine gun fire? They did not manage it, even with a minigun. And a team of British experts just went out into a wood with a WWI Vickers machine gun and did it. The video is here on youtube.

[barliman2001]

@wiseguymaybe Hello, wiseguymaybe; I've just returned from the range where I tried out the whole thing with the following set-up: A half-inch hemp rope (good manilla) knotted into a loop round a beam above, and the whole weighted with an old oil-drum filled with 80 litres of water. And if you then use a contemporary gun (I used a Martini-Henry in .577 at 50 yards) the rope will be so severely damaged that it will break under the strain. And it's even easier if you shoot the loop on the beam...