That saying is perfectly valid... You just gotta adjust your level of equipment technology to make it so.

Too easy with a compound? Get a recurve or longbow.
Too easy with a treestand? Plop your buns on the ground.
Too easy with feeders/food plots/scent bombs? Don't use 'em!

If you find it so easy to kill with the gearyou use that you can't consider everything you take with a bow to be a trophy, it's your own dang fault.

That's my rant on 'worst phrase by hunters.' [8D]