Roger Mills County Hunting

Roger Mills County deer numbers by season

For 2025 the county tally stands at 1,394 deer, placing Roger Mills County 41st statewide. That is 1.1% of the 124,050 deer ODWC tallied by county, a figure that leaves out WMA harvest. A year earlier the county reported 1,462, so 2025 came in 5% 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: 2,094 deer (2010) and 797 deer (1999). A typical recent season here, averaged over 10 years, is about 1,452 deer.

Archery produced 12% of the 2025 total and the gun season 80%, while antlerless deer were 538 of 1,394.

Roger Mills County deer by method, 2016-2025

Back years for Roger Mills County:

• 1999797
• 20001,201
• 20011,177
• 20031,147
• 20041,333
• 20051,264
• 20061,435
• 20071,511
• 20081,698
• 20091,932
• 20102,094
• 20111,404
• 20121,450
• 20131,131
• 20141,030

Roger Mills County public-area deer harvest

Roger Mills 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.

Roger Mills County big game zones and disease rules

Elk hunting in Roger Mills County

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

Special Northwest Zone: All private lands in Woodward, Dewey and Ellis counties and Roger Mills County north of SH 33 and 47. Northwest Zone: Private lands north of I-40 and west of I-35, excluding the Panhandle and Special Northwest zones.

Mule deer reported here: 11 for 2023, 3 for 2024 and 7 for 2025; antlerless mule deer may not be taken with a firearm in the youth or holiday hunts.

Roger Mills 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.

Roger Mills County public land and acreage

The table below lists all 2 public areas on our list that reach into Roger Mills County. Put together, the agency and federal layers trace about 32,209 public acres, near 4.4% of the county.

Roger Mills County anchor tracts, largest first

• Hunters reach Black Kettle WMA, some 30,710 acres, without leaving Roger Mills County. Its permitted game runs to deer, doves, turkey and woodcock. Watch for nonresident check-in. Phone for hunting questions: (580) 515-2030.
• Black Kettle National Grassland (Oklahoma) is listed as a national grassland of about 30,688 acres.

Roger Mills County hunters can also try these

• Packsaddle WMAEllis County; centre to centre 13 miles (19,659 ac)
• Ellis County WMAEllis County; centre to centre 26 miles (4,800 ac)
• Washita NWRCuster County; centre to centre 28 miles (8,088 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.

Roger Mills County on the Oklahoma hunting calendar

Kinds on file here: bird dog championship and field trial stake. Count: 2 upcoming listings and 2 published results.

Scheduled dates

Placings on record

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

Roger Mills County reminders for 2026-27

Get written permission before hunting private land in Roger Mills 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.