Head stolen off hunter's 12-point prize buck during processing
BUTLER, Pa. — A 19-year-old nurse who has been hunting for nine years -- six with a rifle -- couldn't believe it when she spotted a massive drop-tine buck from her tree stand in Butler County.
"It was first daylight. I turned around to my left, and there he was. He walked in. It was the perfect shot," said Abby Hiles, of Karns City.
Hiles was about to take her perfect shot on the first day of rifle season Monday, with her family and boyfriend watching her.
"I was in that tree stand with her, and when she said, 'Don't move,' I said this is the moment," said Hiles' boyfriend, Josh McGinely. “I saw him in my binoculars, this 12-point drop-tine buck. I knew in the moment this was the buck of a lifetime."
Hiles got the buck. She took photos and celebrated, but when she brought the deer to Schnur's Meat Market to be processed just hours later, someone cut off and stole her rare buck's head.
BUTLER, Pa. — A 19-year-old nurse who has been hunting for nine years -- six with a rifle -- couldn't believe it when she spotted a massive drop-tine buck from her tree stand in Butler County.
"It was first daylight. I turned around to my left, and there he was. He walked in. It was the perfect shot," said Abby Hiles, of Karns City.
Hiles was about to take her perfect shot on the first day of rifle season Monday, with her family and boyfriend watching her.
"I was in that tree stand with her, and when she said, 'Don't move,' I said this is the moment," said Hiles' boyfriend, Josh McGinely. “I saw him in my binoculars, this 12-point drop-tine buck. I knew in the moment this was the buck of a lifetime."
Hiles got the buck. She took photos and celebrated, but when she brought the deer to Schnur's Meat Market to be processed just hours later, someone cut off and stole her rare buck's head.