The M&M Horseshoe Company

About Us

Welcome fellow horseshoe pitchers to the site of the first horseshoe manufacturer to list on the world wide web. The M&M Horseshoe Company is owned & operated by Gary & Kevin McLachlin with the support of the rest of our family. No you won't find any production lines here, we design all our horseshoes, make all our own patterns, do all our own finishing and of course paint each horseshoe by hand one at a time.

Story of the M&M Special

At the M&M Horseshoe Company we take pride in all our creations but one of our horseshoe designs stands above all others in the horseshoe world as far as originality & creativity. That shoe is the M&M Special. When we set about designing this horseshoe we had two goals in mind first make it fit my style of pitching, 1 3/4 held down low on the shoe and secondly to make a horseshoe that when it was thrown for a ringer it stayed put and didn't bounce off. The M&M Special took over 2 years from concept to production but since it's completion it has become the new standard in horseshoe design. (at last count there have been 5 horseshoes which have tried to capitalize on our design concept, Some obscure which only had a vague likeness to our design and some other less scrupulous manufactures who changed virtuously nothing other than the name, basically a knockoff horseshoe). Our horseshoe was so innovative at the time of creation it had not one but five unique features never seen in a pitching horseshoe before. No you won't find it in any add from 20 years ago, We tried to keep it a secret kind of like Kentucky Fried Chicken and there 11 herbs and spices their chicken taste good and our horseshoes get thrown for ringers easier than any other horseshoe on the market that's all that matters, right?
The following is a list of all the innovative features which the M&M Special introduced to the pitching world.
(1) We were the first to offer not just hardened points but the entire front angle was hardened to achieve the ultimate slip surface for quick hooking action.
(2) The first to offer constant blade width front to back (all other shoes taper on the blades which reduces grip area) which causes inconsistent pitching
(3) first horseshoe design with perfect balance front to back (most all shoes are back heavy) ,
(4) The first horseshoe to add weight blocks on the top of the shoe to help achieve center balance and add support for super recessed hooks (up until know all lug concepts were only on the underside of the horseshoe)
(5) the most important feature of our horseshoes which visually distinguishes M&M's from any other horseshoe on the market is what we like to call the angle lock system were the back end of the shoe is shaped with two 45 degree angles blending to a 1" diameter circle into a large ringer breaker (all shoes prior to the M&M were either square or round), This is the most advanced ringer keeper design every created for a pitching horseshoe.
When the shoe finally came out into production back in 1986 we certainly got our share of strange looks and skepticism but It has know been over 20 years since we first designed the M&M Special and even we are amazed how popular it has became. So far M&M Specials have been pitched for 12 World Titles 7 with the flip and 5 with the turn. Both turn and flip pitchers have broken records. Some of the more remarkable records set by people pitching M&M Specials are
91.4% complete tournament, (turn)
89.7 qualifying world tournament (turn),
88.2% complete World Tournament (turn)
60 ringers in a row (flip)
So as you can see when we named the horseshoe the M&M Special we were not wrong it is a very, very, SPECIAL HORSESHOE.