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.
