I used to live in the Yeovil area, East Coker to be precise and there are plenty of Roe Deer in that area way back then so there so there must be a few Stalkers about now. When I was there up to 1959 myself and one other seemed to be the only persons with rifles so had access to plenty of access to deer as they were not liked by farmers and often shot with shotguns but did not have the range to do it properly. In my day I was lucky to get 10/- for a Roe carcass at the butchers on Silver street Yeovil called sawyers I think, I have since visited some of my old haunts and noticed signs prohibiting access never heard of before. Perhaps an advert requesting help placed in the western gazette might bring something up. Good luck there are many ex service on the site but most are like me Ex and the only interest we have is making sure our pensions are being paid for as long as possible. I lost wife of 62 years recently, an East Coker, Tellis Cross girl and a bereavement councillor telephoned me one night and asked if I was down and had I considered suicide, I told her no way, I worked hard and long for my army pension and intend making them pay it for as long as I can. !!! Good luck with your search, incidentally I was one of the first to introduce DDM, in the first instance it was John Childs, an ex REME WO1 workshops manager at Larkhill, brain child and called The Services Branch of the British Deer Society. In the first place it seemed to be an Officers club but it was worked that way as a lot of unit OC's did not like the idea of off camp guys of junior rank coming on to their bases as as when they felt like it as many officers were recruited to start with. It got better as it grew. I had the opportunity to introduce ranks from Cpl to Brigadier to Deer and in one instance a US Colonel as well. Many turned up as 'ex snipers, secret ops officers but they all showed their true colours when in the field.
