Out Of Play
Gaming horseshoes and an old powerline insulator.
Pitching horseshoes was a popular diversion in the old west, and remains so, today.
Four players in teams of two, each take turns attempting to land their two horseshoes so as to encircle a verticle iron peg. The pegs are placed in “pits”, forty feet apart. One player from each team stands with one foot against the peg in their pit, and throws to the opposite peg.
“Ringers” are worth three points, “leaners” earn two points, and the shoe nearest the stake (within the width of a shoe) counts one point.
In local tradition, a game is complete when one team has scored 21 points, with a two-point lead.
Pitching shoes are considerably larger than the shoes worn by actual horses.
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