Charity Broadwell’s Talbot County “Unicorn Buck”

Charity Broadwell woke up early the morning after Thanksgiving debating on whether or not she would get into the stand. Unfortunately, it was one of her occasional rough mornings, but mornings such as those happen when one suffers from autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis.

Her husband, Jason, was already in their Kawasaki Mule. He texted her, “Are you coming?” She jumped out the bed, threw on a camo shirt and some orange, and then they took off into the deer woods.

The deer woods for the Broadwells is roughly an 850-acre timber lease that borders their home in Talbot County. They’ve been hunting and managing whitetail on the property since they moved to the area in January of 2017. At the time, Charity was new to the world of hunting. She sat with her husband a couple of times that year and immediately began working on her hunter safety course.

By deer season of 2018, she began hunting by herself. That very same year, the Broadwells first acquired trail-camera pictures of a very unique and easily identifiable buck—it has a spike protruding from the middle of its skull between its other antlers, like a unicorn. Interestingly, Charity continued to watch, through trail cameras, as this buck grew over the next three years at a pace in which she was growing as a hunter herself.

Charity Broadwell with her Talbot County “Unicorn Buck.” The 145-inch 10-pointer has a 4-inch spike protruding from its skull.

Charity killed her first deer, a 7-point, on the final day of the 2018 season, and then she got her second deer, a doe, on the last day of the 2019 season.

“This year, I was not doing that… I’ve been hunting probably five to 10 times a week since opening weekend of bow season,” Charity said about her last-minute deer at the end of the season.

Around the opening weekend of rifle season, a friend of the Broadwells, Larry, notified Charity that he had gotten a picture of the unicorn on his plot. He told her, “You need to go sit in my stand when I’m not here.”

That’s exactly what Charity did. “I’ve been hunting that stand hard, and it finally paid off…”

Charity sat down in the box stand overlooking an acre plot underneath a large powerline, cutting between rows of young planted pines. Charity first saw action a little before 7 a.m. She had a doe, a fawn, and a very young buck come into the plot from the pines on her right, and they fed for nearly an hour and a half before returning back the way in which they came. Thirty minutes later, Charity saw movement decently far off, on a road that crosses the powerline roughly 240 yards in front of her to the left. The doe ran straight across the plot. Approximately 20 minutes later, Charity glanced up, and the buck was just there… standing in the same road from which the doe had appeared, looking into the powerline.

“He turned around and looked at me, it was like we made eye contact.”

She fired.

When Jason arrived, they walked down to where the buck was hit and immediately found a great blood trail. He took the lead, knowing that they would find the deer shortly, and when he did, he took out his phone and turned on the video recorder. When Charity walked up on the buck, she was overcome with emotion. Hands over her mouth, laughing and crying, giving a reaction that perfectly sums up the significance of achieving what Charity had sought for, for three years.

Charity had been following the buck for three years through trail-camera pictures, and it was estimated to be 5 1/2 years old.

The Unicorn Buck weighed in at 145 pounds and was aged at 5 1/2 years old. It’s estimated that the buck had lost nearly 40 to 50 pounds while rutting. He green scored 144 3/8 total inches as a 10-point and has base mass that is comparable to soda cans. The unique part of this buck, the unicorn tine that sticks out in the middle of the two antler bases, measured at 4 inches.

Charity’s story is one of persistence. It’s a story that shows if you work hard enough, and overcome your obstacles, you can accomplish whatever you seek out for. Charity’s story is inspiring in the fact that she goes through troubles in her life that most people cannot even fathom… and yet, she doesn’t skip a beat. She jumps outta bed, throws on camo, and gets after it… nearly every single day. It goes to show, that you don’t necessarily have to have years of experience to be successful. All you gotta do is just have the drive to succeed and a little bit of luck to make magic happen… and that’s exactly what Charity Broadwell made happen.

If you want to see the video of Jason and Charity walking up on the brute, follow this link to a video on YouTube created by Carolina Crazy Outdoors. It’s titled Monster Georgia Buck (Unicorn Buck) 150″ and goes further into the story of Charity Broadwell and her gnarly buck.

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