To me any legal elk is a good elk. However with an average of 6 guys in our elk camp (one week hunt), I will not personally shoot a spike(legal in our season)when we have meat on the pole already. Our camp rules are to pool the meat with those present during the harvest so I see no need to get greedy and just fill a tag because I can. So it really depends where the opportunities lie for me, in the past 5 years I have been forunate to harvest5 elk, none where spikes but none real pure trophies either! I am just thrilled to hunt elk yearlyand let the cards fall where they may.