I'd keep the rack either way. Do some more CSI work for closure, sounds like it is your buck, but who knows.

I would have a hard time claiming a deer as my own without knowing 100% certain that it was mine. Finding one later that could be it, is awesome, but without proof (knowing the rack for sure, finding arrow, noticing if wound is a BH wound) I'd be a skeptic.


The wound....would it not be rather easy to tell if a wound was a Rage hole or not? Just asking.

Awesome find regardless, sounds like he is your deer, but I'd look around some more to be certain. If in your mind, you are already sure he is yours, that is all that matters.