Oklahoma County Hunting

Oklahoma County harvest record from ODWC reports

In the most recent report year, 2025, Oklahoma County hunters reported 1,772 deer (29th of 77). Its share of the 124,050-deer county total is close to 1.4%. The 2024 figure was 1,823, a 3% drop into 2025.

Years without a bar: 2015 not published (no readable ODWC county table). County rows leave out deer taken on WMAs.

The largest reported year is 2023 at 1,880; the smallest, 1999, came to 402. Over the 10 published years from 2016 on, the county averaged 1,489 deer a season.

Bows took 874, muzzleloaders 103 and centerfire guns 795 deer here in 2025.

Oklahoma County harvest split by weapon

Pre-2016 Oklahoma County totals:

• 1999402
• 2000531
• 2001467
• 2003611
• 2004549
• 2005522
• 2006750
• 2007555
• 2008639
• 2009660
• 2010637
• 2011555
• 2012749
• 2013453
• 2014577

The 2025-26 statewide deer total, public land included, was 133,791.

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.

Oklahoma County elk, bear, pronghorn and CWD

Private-land elk in Oklahoma County

Parts of Oklahoma County fall in the Northwest Zone, Northeast Zone, Southeast Zone and Southwest Zone; elk hunting in any of them needs private ground and written permission. Elk quotas (Northwest Zone 8, Northeast Zone 20, Southeast Zone 5 and Southwest Zone 30) close a zone early when they fill; E-Check each elk within a day.

Northwest Zone: Private lands north of I-40 and west of I-35, excluding the Panhandle and Special Northwest zones. Northeast Zone: Private lands north of I-40 and east of I-35. 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).

The CWD processing rule is limited to the surveillance areas, none of which is in Oklahoma County; out-of-state carcasses stay banned statewide.

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.

Oklahoma County WMAs, lakes and walk-in land

Oklahoma County holds 1 listed public place open to some hunting, led by Arcadia Conservation Education Area (475 acres). By GIS measure about 0.6% of Oklahoma County, some 2,909 acres, is public. Acres marked * are not counted as public hunting land.

Oklahoma County heavyweight hunting areas

• Acreage for Arcadia Conservation Education Area: 475; all of it is in Oklahoma County. Extra details: controlled hunts. Call (405) 216-7470 (hunting).

Oklahoma County neighbours with public land

• Lexington WMAin Cleveland County (9,512 ac), 36 miles from the middle of Oklahoma County

* Excluded from the public figure.

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.

Oklahoma County events and results

This county lists 3 upcoming listings; the kinds are RMEF chapter banquet, antler scoring day and hunting and fishing expo.

Coming up

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Oklahoma County trip reminders

This page tracks the 2026-27 license year only, and the ODWC text governs wherever the two disagree.

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