A trophy is all in the eyes of the beholder. Personally, a nice fat forkie off of public land that I scouted and put my time in hunting would be more of a trophy to me than a big 8 point that I paid someone to let me hunt after they scouted it and hung the stands. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with going through an outfitter, I've done it before for sikas and bears, but for a whitetail, I don't think I'd pay to hunt in the same state that I normally hunt in.