Originally Posted by
Alsatian
Flags: Please elaborate on "confidence." What do you meant there? Is that different from positive mental attitude?
Yes there is a difference. Confidence means that you have the ability and skill to get away from other hunters and roads. You are confident that you can get 3 or 4 miles back in safely and actually hunting and not worrying about what may happen. You can live without your cell phone and having someone by your side. If you lack confidence in your ability to hunt more than a couple hundred yards away from roads or other hunters you won't kill many elk.
Positive mental attitude means actually believing you will kill an elk. Remaining focused until the last minute of the last day no matter what the weather did, no matter what other hunters are doing, no matter how bad your feet hurt you must be positive. Your elk may be behind the very next tree