McClain County Hunting

McClain County deer numbers by season

For 2025 the county tally stands at 1,250 deer, placing McClain County 49th statewide. That is 1.0% of the 124,050 deer ODWC tallied by county, a figure that leaves out WMA harvest. A year earlier the county reported 1,196, so 2025 came in 5% higher.

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

Peak and trough in the data: 1,250 deer (2025) and 327 deer (2013). A typical recent season here, averaged over 10 years, is about 960 deer.

Archery produced 29% of the 2025 total and the gun season 62%, while antlerless deer were 545 of 1,250.

McClain County deer by method, 2016-2025

Back years for McClain County:

• 1999337
• 2000455
• 2001489
• 2003487
• 2004405
• 2005439
• 2006552
• 2007416
• 2008564
• 2009531
• 2010455
• 2011470
• 2012474
• 2013327
• 2014516

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.

McClain County big game zones and disease rules

Elk hunting in McClain County

Elk zone lines along the interstates split McClain County between the Southeast Zone and Southwest Zone; all of them are private land only, with written permission. Look up the zone quota (Southeast Zone 5 and Southwest Zone 30) before every elk hunt, because a filled quota closes the zone.

Southeast Zone: Private lands south of I-40 and east of I-35 (Carter/Murray east of I-35 are the Special Southeast Zone). Southwest Zone: Private lands south of I-40 and west of I-35, excluding Caddo, Comanche and Kiowa (Special Southwest Zone).

McClain 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.

McClain County public land and acreage

McClain County has no ODWC or federal hunting area of its own; the areas below are the nearest. No public acres turn up for the county on the ODWC, Forest Service, refuge, Corps or Park Service layers.

McClain County hunters can also try these

• Lexington WMACleveland County; centre to centre 14 miles (9,512 ac)
• Grady County WMAGrady County; centre to centre 29 miles (1,037 ac)
• Lake Burtschi (Department Lake)Grady County; centre to centre 35 miles (762 ac)
• Arcadia Conservation Education AreaOklahoma County; centre to centre 42 miles (475 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.

McClain County reminders for 2026-27

Get written permission before hunting private land in McClain 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.