That means that a trophy can be many different things to many different people. To me a trophy can be a buck that I worked really hard for 2-3 years to kill. It has nothing to do whether it was on private or public land but how hard I worked in my scouting and hunting to kill this buck regardless of what type of land I killed it on. To someone else a trophy may be a buck that was killed on public land and that meant something to that hunter so that makes it a trophy. Just because a buck s killed on public land may or may not make it a trophy as it depends on each individual.