She's Eight-Months Pregnant, but Low on Meat. That's When She Picked up a Rifle and Bagged a 600-Pound Beast.

There are plenty of women who are eight-months pregnant that can barely handle steps. Ashley Switzer is not one of them.

Switzer, a 22-year-old from Homer, Alaska, noticed that she was getting low on meat at home. Her husband was away working on fishing boat. So she decided to take matters into her own hands: She borrowed a .270 rifle from her father and hit the woods on September 8.

"It was my dad's .270 (caliber rifle) because my husband took my .30-06," she told the Alaska Dispatch News.

While in the woods, as luck would have it, she happened upon a bull moose. And she made the most of it.

More from the Dispatch on how the hunt unfolded:

A little after 8 a.m., she said, she spotted a young, spike-fork bull. Moose hunting in the 49th state is a little complicated. Across much of the state, hunting regulations make it legal to shoot only moose with antlers larger than 50 inches wide or with little-bitty antlers.

The management intent is to crop off the big bulls and the little bulls because they are least likely to survive the winter.

Puttering around on one of the many backwoods trails near Homer, Ashley had found herself a legal little bull, but "then he scampered off into the woods," she said.

Goodbye moose.

But pretty soon, Ashley saw a cow moose. Mating season wasn't really into full swing yet, but the cow was calling. Ashley started calling. The young bull strolled back into view. Bad mistake.

She ended up dropping the beast with one shot:

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— KRON 4 News (@kron4news) September 23, 2014

"After I shot it, I thought, 'I'm going to need some help,'" she told the Dispatch. "So I just called my dad and said, 'Take the day off.'"

Luckily, her husband arrived in time to help with the butchering.