RE: "Any bow kill is a trophy..."
"Any bow kill is a trophy"
"Any bow kill is an accomplishment"
Same thing in my book, just use which word makes you more comfortable. Last year my son shot his first deer with a bow, a doe. It sure felt like a trophy to him.
Many years ago when I started bowhunting compounds were still relatively in the developmental stages and deer were not nearly as plentiful, at least in Illinois. We were allowed one deer permit with bow and if you were lucky enough to draw a permit one deer with firearm. My fatherinlaw who got me started in bowhunting told me the same phrase. Where he read or heard it I don't know. I'm pretty sure the "any bow kill is a trophy" phrase was started long before that.