You wouldn ' t know if I was carrying though . And if you find out I ' m carrying it ' s in your right to leave . <| sep |> essentially trophy hunting is when people selectively hunt in an attempt to get a biggernicerrarer animal . However there is quite a bit of grey area and its pretty subjective . For example with some species only very few tags are given out , so there is an incentive to make it count . So even if a person uses the entire animal for food and other purposes , it is still a trophy hunt , because it was selective hunting . its semantics really . Other reasons someone might selectively hunt is if its more beneficial to the animal population to only kill the oldest and largest , such as with deer where the old large deer are going to die off anyway naturally . so while some might scoff at the idea of selective killing , it is actually quite practical .