That is a very tough question to answer. It depends on who you ask. A young hunter who is just starting out, a trophy to them might be a fat doe. To the person who only gets to hunt a couple days of the year it might be any legal buck regardless of size. To the old timer it might be the deer he just killed because it might be the last one he'll ever harvest. In my eyes, at the point I'm at now in my hunting career, it's a buck that would fall into the top ten percent for that PARTICULAR area. That's why that question stirs up so much contraversy. It just depends on who you ask.