Beckham County Hunting

Beckham County deer numbers by season

For 2025 the county tally stands at 1,620 deer, placing Beckham County 35th statewide. That is 1.3% of the 124,050 deer ODWC tallied by county, a figure that leaves out WMA harvest. A year earlier the county reported 1,736, so 2025 came in 7% lower.

Chart gaps: 2015 not published (no readable ODWC county table). Public-area harvest sits outside these county figures.

Peak and trough in the data: 1,877 deer (2020) and 433 deer (1999). A typical recent season here, averaged over 10 years, is about 1,490 deer.

Archery produced 19% of the 2025 total and the gun season 76%, while antlerless deer were 768 of 1,620.

Beckham County deer by method, 2016-2025

Back years for Beckham County:

• 1999433
• 2000599
• 2001622
• 2003779
• 2004769
• 2005865
• 2006970
• 20071,072
• 20081,081
• 20091,272
• 20101,284
• 20111,052
• 2012929
• 2013910
• 2014942

Beckham County public-area deer harvest

Beckham County harvest of other big game

No figure is shown for years ODWC did not publish as text.

The statewide figure for 2025 is 133,791 deer.

County deer by year from the ODWC Big Game Harvest Reports (report index; 2025 2025-26 report, 2024 2024-25 report, 2016-2023 tables such as 2019-20 Table 1, 1999-2011 county PDFs); public-area deer from the 2025-26 public land table; statewide totals from the 2025-26 Big Game Report. OCR years keep only rows whose columns sum to the printed total. Checked November 3, 2026.

Beckham County big game zones and disease rules

Elk hunting in Beckham County

Elk zone lines along the interstates split Beckham County between the Northwest Zone and Southwest Zone; all of them are private land only, with written permission. Look up the zone quota (Northwest Zone 8 and Southwest Zone 30) before every elk hunt, because a filled quota closes the zone.

Northwest Zone: Private lands north of I-40 and west of I-35, excluding the Panhandle and Special Northwest zones. Southwest Zone: Private lands south of I-40 and west of I-35, excluding Caddo, Comanche and Kiowa (Special Southwest Zone).

Mule deer reported here: 1 for 2021 and 1 for 2022; antlerless mule deer may not be taken with a firearm in the youth or holiday hunts.

Beckham County is outside the four CWD surveillance areas; deer and elk from other states still may not be brought in whole.

Elk zones and quotas from the ODWC elk regulations; bear area from the ODWC bear page; pronghorn from the ODWC antelope page; CWD areas and rules from the ODWC SSA page and ODWC CWD page; harvest figures from the ODWC Big Game Harvest Reports. Checked November 3, 2026.

Beckham County public land and acreage

The table below lists all 1 public area on our list that reach into Beckham County. Put together, the agency and federal layers trace about 19,768 public acres, near 3.4% of the county.

Beckham County anchor tracts, largest first

• Hunters reach Sandy Sanders WMA, some 19,100 acres, from Beckham County or from Greer County and Harmon County. Its permitted game runs to deer, doves, ducks and cranes. Watch for non-ambulatory access. ODWC's area page and its GIS layer disagree on size; the page figure is shown, the layer says 36,669. Phone for hunting questions: (580) 471-3371.

Beckham County hunters can also try these

• Altus-Lugert WMAGreer County and Kiowa County; centre to centre 28 miles (3,600 ac)
• Black Kettle National Grassland (Oklahoma)Roger Mills County; centre to centre 29 miles (30,688 ac)
• Black Kettle WMARoger Mills County; centre to centre 32 miles (30,710 ac)
• Lake Hall (Department Lake)Harmon County; centre to centre 33 miles (158 ac)
• Washita NWRCuster County; centre to centre 34 miles (8,088 ac)
• Washita County WMAWashita County; centre to centre 37 miles (240 ac)

Areas from our Oklahoma land list (ODWC where to hunt area pages, the ODWC OLAP rules and OLAP layer, USFS, USFWS, Corps and NPS records); acres by kind from the ODWC Public WMA Boundaries layer, USFS, USFWS, USACE Tulsa District and PAD-US layers (GIS measures, not official acreages, lake surfaces removed). Checked November 3, 2026.

Beckham County on the Oklahoma hunting calendar

Kinds on file here: youth private-lands draw. Count: 1 upcoming listing. Controlled hunt rows (1) admit only hunters whose names came up in the ODWC draw.

Scheduled dates

Running a trial or a nite hunt nearby? Post the date

Beckham County reminders for 2026-27

Get written permission before hunting private land in Beckham County, and for elk it is required by rule.

Sources: 2026-2027 Oklahoma Fishing & Hunting Regulations, ODWC hunting, Census and the sources in each section. Checked November 3, 2026.