A deer that hunters shot and killed in Perry County was stolen from them last weekend, park rangers and Pennsylvania Game Commission officials said.

According to a post on the Tuscarora State Forest Facebook page, at about 2 p.m. Dec. 6 a hunting party harvested, tagged, and field dressed an antlered deer.

The deer, described as a “lifetime” 9-point buck, was then placed behind a tree to be picked up after the group finished hunting.

The deer was set down along a pipeline off of Wolf Road in Toboyne Twp., Perry County, officials said

When the hunting party returned to the area at the end of the day to retrieve the deer, it was no longer there.

Officials said that evidence at the scene suggests someone entered the pipeline and dragged the deer to a parking spot along Wolf Road, where

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