Six Shooter Item #1007

We have always felt that most horseshoes are not wide enough across the blade of the shoe. When you pitch, you are fighting gravity - the shoe wants to flop downward as you loosen your grip to release it at the end of your swing. We noticed a long time ago that if you take a shoe like the Ted Allen (very narrow blades) and swing it slowly - As you begin to loosen your grip to release it, the weight of the shoe opposite where you grip, will pull it downward against your swinging motion. This causes the pitcher to have to snap his wrist upward to compensate for it. If you compared the Allen to a shoe like the Deadeye Clydesdale (wider blades than the Allen), you'd find that less effort on the wrist is needed to send this shoe successfully on its way around the stake for a ringer.