Alberta woman vies for title of Extreme Huntress

She’s hunted all over the world for a lot of different game but now needs the public’s help as she eyes her next big title, “Extreme Huntress.”

Taxidermist Jeanette Hall is in the running for the contest and is up against female hunters from across the continent, Germany and even South Africa.

Hall tells 660News, hunting to her has always been a way of life.

“My grandparents are the ones that got me into hunting, my grandfather took me out,” she says, “The biggest thing they taught me is respect for the animal and I still carry that true to my heart to this day.”

The life-long hunter says she’s not the type of person who will jump around and scream happily that she’s killed an animal.

“To me that’s wrong.  You should pay respect to that animal because it’s given its life to you, to keep you going and feed you,” she says.

Hunting, she says, kept her going when she was diagnosed with a brain tumour a few years back.

The Central Alberta taxidermist began to eat all-natural, hunting or growing all of her own food.

She believes there is still a lot of work that needs to be done in promoting the term “huntress” and adds, there’s a huge stigma for women who hunt.

“It’s hilarious, I even have people calling the studio and asking to speak to the taxidermist because they think I’m the secretary,” she laughs. “English society made women stay indoors and I think that’s where that started.”

Hall has gone worldwide and is hoping to one day try her luck some day in New Zealand.

“Africa was pretty extreme.   When I was there I was charged by a bull elephant and he got within 50 yards and it was pretty scarey because all I had in my hands was my video camera and my bow,” says Hall.

Voting continues until June 1st.   The finalists will then get a trip to Texas to prove they have what it takes to be the “Extreme Huntress.”

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