Filmmaker, author, tracking hunter, wild boar expert, etc. Regardless of the label you put on me, there is a common thread running through my life as a hunter—the curiosity and the desire to learn more about hunting, hunting dogs, and shooting.
I live in Österlen, Skåne, out of ingrained habit. I am passionate about all forms of hunting, but I have a special affinity for driven hunts, and above all, for free-ranging dog hunting of moose and wild boar. Most of what I do in life revolves around big game hunting, tracking, and shooting, as well as trying to document it on film. When I tell people what I do, the follow-up question is often, "But what do you actually work with?" It is a true privilege to have spent the last 25 years working with what I love most of all—hunting.
Like everyone else in my hunting generation, I have been part of an incredible hunting journey. In my younger years, it was small game that mattered, not big game. We had a strong rabbit population around the house, and local farmers paid a bounty, to a hunter who by today's standards was much too young, for every rabbit tail I presented. Sadly, small game hunting is now just a distant memory. But I have also witnessed the explosive rise, and in some cases the decline, of the populations of roe deer, fallow deer, red deer, and moose, and how incredibly much hunting has changed.
I started tracking hoofed game with my Wachtel and Vorstehhounds in my teenage years, experiences that were compiled in my first book. I then had the unusual fortune of living in one of the areas where wild boars first established themselves. Since I had hunted wild boar quite a bit on the continent, I realized that this game would completely reshape the hunting landscape in Sweden as well. This realization led me to write another book, and as a consequence, I spent several years traveling across the country giving lectures on wild boar. I made my first hunting film in 2002, which was originally intended as a fun one-time project, after which I planned to continue writing articles for hunting magazines—but things don’t always turn out as expected.
I give lectures on wild boar, tracking, shooting, and other topics with various perspectives, such as hunting ethics, safety, equipment selection, hunting with dogs, wildlife management, etc. The lectures are tailored to the audience and usually last one to two hours.