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Ok... I'm sure at one time or another we've all sold a rabbit to a butcher or taken some pigeons round the back of a restaurant for a few quid. ;) But what about the times when, instead of cash changing hands, something else is given instead?? :hmm:

 

I did this quite a lot when i was a kid and had some funny old exchanges (sadly being called up to the bedroom of a MILF was not one of them) but it would be cool to hear other peoples stories.

 

My top scores are probably quite rubbish but here they are anyway:

 

6 oven ready pigeons for 1 litre of Barcardi (lemon)... (I was 15 and didn't know any better) from a random house on my street... This also let to my first alcohol induced vomiting session.

 

10 Rabbits for a tiny tupperware pot of game caserole from a pub... :blink:

 

3 rabbits for 3 4pint pitchers of larger at a pub. :drink:

 

10 pigeons for 6 boxes of cartridges from my dads mate. Ii said it was a bit too generous but he said he had seen me shoot :hunter: and that i had probably used twice that. :angry: ...cheeky b*****d.

 

:victory:

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Nope. Can't say as I ever recall trading my stuff. (What's a "MILF", by the way? :unsure:) But, when I was about eighteen, maybe a bit younger? I had a huge haul of bun's to shift and so took them round the local pubs to knock out at thirty bob a throw.

 

Now, contrary to the popular folk myth of youth, few young men of that age are truly hardened drinkers ..... :laugh: Ye can guess the rest? By the end of a damn hard nights pub crawling, selling bun's and drinking a pint on the way through, I finally ended up one stop from home. One bun left under my great coat and absolutely f*cking paralytic!

 

Bar maid in the Bridge Tavern had my last one. Only she wanted it skinned. Determined to oblige and keep up my self image of the Local Poacher al a Richard Jeffries, I bundled this poor rabbits carcass across the road to some waste land. There, staggering and swaying in the pitch darkness, I - quite frankly - ripped the f*cking thing to pieces with my bare hands! :rofl: I distincly remember a front leg tearing off to this day!

 

Slung this shattered wreck back in its carrier bag. Took it back to her and fled!

 

Never did go near The Bridge again after that :whistle:

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Got a nice duck for roasting, all prepared for shooting a fox many years ago.

 

But the best thing I get for coneys and such is permission to shoot game when the season comes around. Always my preferred currency!

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But the best thing I get for coneys and such is permission to shoot game when the season comes around. Always my preferred currency!

 

Now THAT is a good one! :victory: Its suprising what doors a nice gesture or a little goodwill will open :yes:

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