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Antlerless Deer Zone 5
Antlerless Deer Zone 5: Muzzleloader 2, gun 2; county shares, seasons and public ground.
Photo: Nicolas Henderson (CC BY 2.0)
Antlerless Deer Zone 5 limits and deer dates
In Antlerless Deer Zone 5 the muzzleloader and gun antlerless rule is "Muzzleloader 2, gun 2", shared with Zone 3, 4, 6 and 9.
Zone note from ODWC: Two antlerless in muzzleloader season and two in deer gun season.
| Season | Opens | Closes | Days | Today |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archery | Oct 1, 2026 | Jan 15, 2027 | 107 | |
| Youth gun | Oct 16, 2026 | Oct 18, 2026 | 3 | |
| Muzzleloader | Oct 24, 2026 | Nov 1, 2026 | 9 | |
| Gun | Nov 21, 2026 | Dec 6, 2026 | 16 | |
| Holiday antlerless | Dec 18, 2026 | Dec 31, 2026 | 14 |
Six deer a season, two antlered at most, still applies in Antlerless Deer Zone 5; muzzleloader and gun seasons each allow four deer with one antlered.
From the ODWC deer season page and the 2026-2027 regulations guide p. 37, checked November 3, 2026.
Antlerless Deer Zone 5: counties and shares
Of the 14 counties in Antlerless Deer Zone 5, 3 are whole and 11 are cut by a boundary road.
| County | Portion | Shares with | Deer taken 2025 | Elk zone |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hughes County | 100% | – | 2,079 | Southeast |
| Okfuskee County | 100% | – | 1,329 | Northeast |
| Seminole County | 100% | – | 2,089 | Northeast, Southeast |
| Lincoln County | 75% | 6 | 2,856 | Northeast |
| Creek County | 72% | 2 | 2,940 | Northeast |
| Pottawatomie County | 70% | 6 | 2,590 | Northeast, Southeast |
| Coal County | 59% | 9 | 1,805 | Southeast |
| Okmulgee County | 47% | 4 | 1,519 | Northeast |
| Pontotoc County | 32% | 6, 9 | 2,258 | Southeast |
| Pittsburg County | 28% | 10 | 3,975 | Southeast |
| Atoka County | 11% | 10, 9 | 2,981 | Southeast |
| Payne County | 10% | 2, 6 | 2,277 | Northeast |
| McIntosh County | 6% | 4, 10 | 1,307 | Northeast, Southeast |
| Tulsa County | 3% | 4, 2, 3 | 1,282 | Northeast |
Zone lines follow roads and ODWC prints them only on its map, so a hunter near a split county's boundary road should confirm the zone there.
Counties from the ODWC zone map read in regs.json and the GIS overlay in counties.json; deer from the 2025-26 Big Game Harvest Report county table (whole-county totals); checked November 3, 2026.
Best counties in Antlerless Deer Zone 5 by harvest
Read the chart as a county-based trend for Antlerless Deer Zone 5: split counties are counted whole and public-land deer are left out.
| County | Archery | Muzzleloader | Gun | Antlerless | Total 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pittsburg County | 1,364 | 651 | 1,960 | 1,614 | 3,975 |
| Atoka County | 840 | 469 | 1,672 | 1,243 | 2,981 |
| Creek County | 883 | 357 | 1,700 | 1,338 | 2,940 |
| Lincoln County | 719 | 281 | 1,856 | 1,302 | 2,856 |
| Pottawatomie County | 786 | 285 | 1,519 | 1,164 | 2,590 |
| Payne County | 621 | 191 | 1,465 | 1,117 | 2,277 |
From the ODWC county deer tables (2025-26 Big Game Harvest Report and earlier reports), checked November 3, 2026.
Public deer ground in Antlerless Deer Zone 5
Antlerless Deer Zone 5 public ground: 9 areas, from WMAs to walk-in tracts.
| Area | Type | Counties | Acres | Deer 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| McAlester Army Ammunition Plant | Military | Pittsburg | 44,800 | – |
| Deep Fork WMA | WMA | Creek, Okfuskee | 12,820 | 106 |
| Deep Fork NWR | Refuge | Okmulgee | 10,674 | 75 |
| Okmulgee WMA | WMA | Okmulgee | 9,615 | – |
| Okmulgee GMA | GMA | Okmulgee | 5,939 | – |
| Heyburn WMA | WMA | Creek | 5,725 | 53 |
| Okmulgee PHA | PHA | Okmulgee | 3,676 | – |
| Seminole County OLAP Limited Access Area LA001 | OLAP limited | Seminole | 60 | – |
| Heyburn Lake (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) | Corps lake | Creek | – | – |
Lands from lands.json (ODWC deer zone layer overlay); WMA deer from the 2025-26 Big Game Harvest Report; checked November 3, 2026.
What else changes inside Antlerless Deer Zone 5
- Fall turkey: closed in Atoka County, Coal County, Pittsburg County, Tulsa County; open in the other 10 zone counties.
- Black bear: Atoka County, McIntosh County, Pittsburg County (all or part). Bear area.
- I-35 line: no zone county lies west of I-35, so sandhill crane and jackrabbit seasons do not reach it.
- Elk zones: Northeast Zone, Southeast Zone.
- Duck zone: Zones 1 and 2. Waterfowl zones.
- ODWC regions: ODWC Central Region (9), ODWC Southeast Region (3), ODWC Northeast Region (2).
County rules from regs.json zones (ODWC regulation pages and maps), checked November 3, 2026.
Legal hunting times, Hughes County (Antlerless Deer Zone 5)
ODWC prints no sunrise and sunset table, so the times here are worked out for Hughes County (Antlerless Deer Zone 5) with the NOAA solar formula.
| Day | Marker | Sun up | Sun down | Deer window | Duck window | Upland |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | Archery deer opens | 7:19 a.m. | 7:11 p.m. | 6:49 a.m. to 7:41 p.m. | 6:49 a.m. to 7:11 p.m. | 7:19 a.m. to 7:11 p.m. |
| Oct 24, 2026 | Muzzleloader opens | 7:38 a.m. | 6:41 p.m. | 7:08 a.m. to 7:11 p.m. | 7:08 a.m. to 6:41 p.m. | 7:38 a.m. to 6:41 p.m. |
| Nov 21, 2026 | Gun deer opens | 7:05 a.m. | 5:17 p.m. | 6:35 a.m. to 5:47 p.m. | 6:35 a.m. to 5:17 p.m. | 7:05 a.m. to 5:17 p.m. |
| Dec 6, 2026 | Gun deer closes | 7:19 a.m. | 5:14 p.m. | 6:49 a.m. to 5:44 p.m. | 6:49 a.m. to 5:14 p.m. | 7:19 a.m. to 5:14 p.m. |
| Dec 21, 2026 | Shortest day | 7:29 a.m. | 5:17 p.m. | 6:59 a.m. to 5:47 p.m. | 6:59 a.m. to 5:17 p.m. | 7:29 a.m. to 5:17 p.m. |
| Jan 15, 2027 | Archery closes | 7:33 a.m. | 5:35 p.m. | 7:03 a.m. to 6:05 p.m. | 7:03 a.m. to 5:35 p.m. | 7:33 a.m. to 5:35 p.m. |
| Apr 16, 2027 | Spring turkey | 6:53 a.m. | 7:57 p.m. | 6:23 a.m. to 8:27 p.m. | 6:23 a.m. to 7:57 p.m. | 6:53 a.m. to 7:57 p.m. |
Hours rules from the ODWC big game regulations and the 2026-2027 Oklahoma Fishing and Hunting Regulations; sunrise and sunset worked out for this location with the NOAA solar formula (Central Time); checked November 3, 2026. Legal hours for every county.
Glowing night sky over still water at Atoka Reservoir, Atoka County. Photo: Shiva Shenoy (CC BY 2.0)
Little Bugaboo Creek tumbling over rocks under green woods in the McGee Creek area, Atoka County. Photo: Robert Nunnally (CC BY 2.0)
White-tailed buck emerging from the tree line at the edge of a field. Photo: USFWS Mountain Prairie (Public domain)
Common Antlerless Deer Zone 5 questions
What is the county list for Antlerless Deer Zone 5?
Antlerless Deer Zone 5 takes in Atoka, Coal, Creek, Hughes, Lincoln, McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Payne, Pittsburg, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole and Tulsa; split by a zone road: Atoka, Coal, Creek, Lincoln, McIntosh, Okmulgee, Payne, Pittsburg, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie and Tulsa.
Do Antlerless Deer Zone 5 dates differ from other zones?
Opening days in Antlerless Deer Zone 5: archery October 1, youth gun October 16, muzzleloader October 24, gun November 21, holiday antlerless December 18.
What is the deer harvest in Antlerless Deer Zone 5?
Top county: Pittsburg County, 3,975 deer. Zone counties combined: 31,287, counting split counties whole.
Is there a written Antlerless Deer Zone 5 boundary?
By roads drawn on the ODWC zone map image; 11 of its counties are split.
How many public areas does Antlerless Deer Zone 5 have?
9 public areas overlap the zone; the largest are McAlester Army Ammunition Plant, Deep Fork WMA and Deep Fork NWR.
Does Antlerless Deer Zone 5 have a CWD surveillance area?
No zone county holds a CWD Selective Surveillance Area. The carcass import rule still applies statewide: No cervid carcass or part from outside Oklahoma except antlers/clean skull plates, deboned quarters or meat without spinal column, cleaned teeth, finished taxidermy, hides, and carcasses going to a registered taxidermist.
Antlerless Deer Zone 5: how many does?
For Antlerless Deer Zone 5: Muzzleloader 2, gun 2. Holiday antlerless hunters add two more, outside the six-deer cap.
Other photos on this page: Shiva Shenoy (CC BY 2.0); Robert Nunnally (CC BY 2.0); USFWS Mountain Prairie (Public domain).