Sweden fetes woman hunter who bags two elk in three days

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Sep 8, 2009, 14:25 GMT

Stockholm - Swedish women are slowly conquering one of the last male bastions of the north - the elk hunt. Headlines all over the country described Therese Olsson, a 31- year-old finance expert, as a true 'elk killer' on Tuesday, after she bagged two full-grown elk in three days at the start of the hunting season. 'It's unbelievable,' she told Expressen newspaper. 'Other hunters wait their whole lives to shoot their first elk and I manage two in a row.' The key to her success: 'I keep quiet. The men are always busy chatting.' Olsson also offered her 'Elk filet a la Therese' recipe. Around 300,000 Swedes, or 3 per cent of the population, go elk- hunting for a few days every autumn. Whole companies sometimes have to close. Swedish women are increasingly joining their men in the hunt for the 'king of the forest'. In 2005, just 5 per cent of hunters were women. This year the number doubled.

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