20 years ago I took a 6x7 Elk in the Missouri Breaks of Montana, with my bow. It was Pope & Young record book animal. I took it to the taxidermist. When it was done the taxidermist called to come pick it up. So I went there and as the taxidermist escorted me back into the trophy room there were a fair number of very impressive Elk mounts. So I commented there were some very nice mounts and he responded by pointing at an Elk mount on the wall (which turned out to be mine) and said, "No, there is a nice Elk. Those others are game farm Elk, yours was fair chase"
Meant a lot to me and never forgot his words.