Stockholm - A Swedish teenager was praised for accurate shooting when he shot a bear over the weekend while out on a moose hunt with his father, reports said Monday.

Filip Wikner, 15, was hunting under the supervision of his father when their dog tracked a bear near the village of Hornmyr, northern Sweden.

They subsequently spotted the bear in a thicket, Wikner told the Vasterbottens-Kuriren newspaper.

The duo had agreed that Filip would firet the initial shot, and when the bear turned its side on them he opened fire from some 20 metres.

"The bear went down immediately but got back up," Wikner said, adding that his father, seasoned bear hunter Peter Wikner, then fired a second shot.

Each of the shots proved fatal. The massive bear weighed some 210 kilograms.

"I will keep the bearskin but the hunting team will divide the meat," Filip Wikner said.

Although bears are protected in Sweden, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency has set a quota of 233 bears for this year's bear hunt season that opened August 21.

As of early Monday, 98 bears had been shot, the National Veterinary Institute reported. (dpa)