I judge them by shooting the first legal elk I see. I don't like tag soup too much.

If I were truely trophy hunting I would look for the brow tines to come close to their nose tip and then curl up. the G-3 would be at least half as long or more than the brow tines and then curl up and preferably out to the side, The G-4 or dagger point should be as thick as the main beam and as long as your arm from the elbow out or longer, and then the last two should be about equal in length preferably making a sideways "Y". If there are any more pointo add to the standard six then that's a big plus. Then the inside spread should be at least as wide as his body.

This would be a true trophy to me.

And if you got time to judge all of this while you're hunting you're doing pretty dang good. Usually you only got about three seconds to decide to shoot or not.