Okay all you hawk eyes, What year is it? It appears to be new.

Wasn't 1911 the last year for the "Ford" script on the radiator? And is this the first known photo of an early attempt at manifold cooking? Still looks pretty rare to me, but I'm hungry, let's eat it anyway! Rollie

More Model T Hunters!

Went rattlesnake hunting in a Model T in Chugwater Wy. after the Joint MTFCA and MTFCI tour in Deadwood, S.D.. No photos. No Rattlesnakes. Several snakes in campground.

Dan, I would love to have a better version of that image.

Love those colorized images. That last one looks a bit staged. The only thing they bagged was booze. I hope they were done shooting for the day.

Erich

The hood mounted deer photo is fairly poor image, with my microsoft picture file, best I could do to enhance.

Another buck in the Lizzie...

Dan,

Looks to me to be a small white tail 8 point with a gambrel stick insterted like they do out west to cool the carcass down. Not a shooter by my standards.

Or were you talking about the car?

Steve

Erich,

"The only thing they bagged was booze"

Isn't that how most hunting trips go?

I tried to enhance the photo as well; see if this is any better, Erich.

I tried to enhance the photo as well; see if this is any better, Erich.

Don't know why mine posted twice. Looks like Jerry and I did the same thing at the same time! Oh, well, lots of versions to choose from!

Jerry, I can honestly say some of my hunts have been animal free, but all have included a touch of drink taken in moderation and in a responcible manner. Never mix the drink and the guns. I would also never mix the drink and Lizzy driving. Can't say I would put a dead deer in my T either. But, never say never.

Would love to see more T hunting pictures too.

Erich,

Every year it was tradition for our shop shipping clerk to go dear hunting. Every year, when he returned, it was also tradition for our secretary to ask him if he caught anything. His reply was always, "God, I sure hope not". I miss those days.

I`m not sure that was a " hunting " party . Notice that all the guns , except possibly the one to the far right , are shotguns , mostly double barrels . If that was a " hunting " party , I think I`d rather call it a " firing Squad " !!

1910 was the last year for Ford script on the radiator core.

Doug,

that's why they call it "buck shot."



Steve

Erich- This was the best shot (no pun intended) I could get. The photo was at an antique mall. I took the picture through a glass case. I would have bought it. but I thought the $45.00 price tag was a little high.

If my eyes are seeing what I think they see which is top straps to the windshield and not down to the fender brackets, I would think the car is a '12.

I see one piece spindles

Not much of the T is showing on the right, but plenty of hunters and jackrabbits.

They could have used "slugs" in their shotguns to go deer hunting.

Herb

I'm no sure about the top straps. Although the strap on the passenger side looks like it goes to the windshield, the driver's side looks like it does not. The top itself looks to be a replacement. The back window is different, and the edge on the sides is different.
The windshield looks to have even sizes of sections. To me, the radiator does not look like it has the short filler neck, and the Ford script looks a little different. Black crank handle. I'd guess modified 1911.

I laughed out loud when I read John's manifold cooker comment!

: ^ )

Herb : Slugs had not been invented yet when this picture was taken .

I hope they got their limit!

Wascally wabbits!

Herb

Ford model T truck with solid rubber tyres. William Rees, rabbit buyer is in photo. Foster's store. Truck with rabbits in front - Alectown, NSW

Val,

The leather straps are not attached to the windshield. They go all the way down to the brackets.

The car also has side curtains installed.

I'm going 1910/11 or very early 12.

Would Dane's photo of a T truck be a Form-a- truck?

Herb

I think you're right, Herb. It looks like it has car running boards and the wheels do not look like TT wheels.

I don't think it is a Ford at all. Look at the curvature of the front fender. It also appears to have semi-elliptic front springs. JMHO. Dave

Agreed David.

"I`m not sure that was a " hunting " party . Notice that all the guns , except possibly the one to the far right , are shotguns "

So are the guns in the original photo, the one with the dead deer on the hood.

Or, is that the photo you were refering to? Too many pictures, too confusing. Carry on...

Rabbit stew anyone. great pictures.

Bob

Jerry : Yup , the very first photo has all the shotguns .

Not uncommon to hunt deer with a shotgun then or now. No slugs needed as buckshot does a very effective job if the range is close enough. It was not uncommon for a person of only enough means to buy one long gun to make it a shotgun as it would allow him to hunt both feather and fur with the rite loads.

The colorized picture may be a party of dove hunters who were pass shooting as the birds came to the field to feed or left it later. Note the shells on the ground.

Erich : I was only commenting on the number of hunters with guns vs. the one deer shot . I`m not anti-hunting , it`s just all those guns and only one deer . Seemed lopsided !! Old Indian saying : One cartridge , we eat . Two cartridges , maybe come home with something . Three cartridges , miss them all .

Doug, soooo true.