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Antlerless Deer Zone 6
Deer rules for Antlerless Deer Zone 6: Muzzleloader 2, gun 2, plus counties, harvest and lands.
Photo: Lane Pearman (CC BY 2.0)
Deer seasons and antlerless limits in Antlerless Deer Zone 6
Antlerless Deer Zone 6 sets the antlerless limit at "Muzzleloader 2, gun 2"; Zones 3, 4, 5 and 9 use the same numbers.
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 |
In Antlerless Deer Zone 6 each of the muzzleloader and gun seasons allows four deer, one antlered, inside the six-deer combined limit; youth gun allows two.
From the ODWC deer season page and the 2026-2027 regulations guide p. 37, checked November 3, 2026.
County list for Antlerless Deer Zone 6
The county list for Antlerless Deer Zone 6 has 17 names, 13 of them only partly in the zone.
| County | Share in zone | Other zones | Deer 2025 | Elk zone |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland County | 100% | – | 1,545 | Southeast, Southwest |
| McClain County | 100% | – | 1,250 | Southeast, Southwest |
| Oklahoma County | 100% | – | 1,772 | Northwest, Northeast, Southeast, Southwest |
| Canadian County | 100% | – | 1,277 | Northwest, Southwest |
| Garvin County | 96% | 9 | 2,123 | Southeast, Southwest |
| Grady County | 88% | 8 | 2,355 | Southwest |
| Caddo County | 85% | 8, 7 | 2,217 | Special Southwest |
| Logan County | 48% | 2 | 2,276 | Northwest, Northeast |
| Pontotoc County | 36% | 9, 5 | 2,258 | Southeast |
| Murray County | 35% | 9 | 789 | Southwest, Special Southeast |
| Pottawatomie County | 30% | 5 | 2,590 | Northeast, Southeast |
| Kingfisher County | 29% | 2 | 1,103 | Northwest |
| Lincoln County | 25% | 5 | 2,856 | Northeast |
| Blaine County | 11% | 2, 7 | 972 | Northwest |
| Stephens County | 8% | 9, 8 | 1,835 | Southwest |
| Payne County | 4% | 2, 5 | 2,277 | Northeast |
| Carter County | 2% | 9 | 2,165 | Southwest, Special Southeast |
Shares come from a GIS overlay; ODWC publishes no written boundary, and the map's roads decide which zone a stand is in.
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.
Antlerless Deer Zone 6 county harvest
These totals add the whole-county deer harvest of every county Antlerless Deer Zone 6 touches, so split counties count in full; WMA deer are not in the county tables.
| County | Archery | Muzzleloader | Gun | Antlerless | Total 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln County | 719 | 281 | 1,856 | 1,302 | 2,856 |
| Pottawatomie County | 786 | 285 | 1,519 | 1,164 | 2,590 |
| Grady County | 616 | 193 | 1,546 | 1,143 | 2,355 |
| Payne County | 621 | 191 | 1,465 | 1,117 | 2,277 |
| Logan County | 734 | 200 | 1,342 | 1,083 | 2,276 |
| Pontotoc County | 712 | 214 | 1,332 | 969 | 2,258 |
From the ODWC county deer tables (2025-26 Big Game Harvest Report and earlier reports), checked November 3, 2026.
Where to hunt deer in Antlerless Deer Zone 6 on public ground
Within Antlerless Deer Zone 6 lie 7 public areas; WMA rules and controlled-hunt closures can change the statewide dates on them.
| Area | Type | Counties | Acres | Deer 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lexington WMA | WMA | Cleveland | 9,512 | 158 |
| Fort Cobb WMA | WMA | Caddo | 3,500 | 102 |
| Grady County WMA | WMA | Grady | 1,037 | 6 |
| Lake Burtschi (Department Lake) | Dept. lake | Grady | 762 | – |
| Arcadia Conservation Education Area | CEA | Oklahoma | 475 | – |
| Pottawatomie County OLAP Limited Access Area LA001 | OLAP limited | Pottawatomie | 80 | – |
| Logan County OLAP Limited Access Area LA001 | OLAP limited | Logan | 76 | – |
Lands from lands.json (ODWC deer zone layer overlay); WMA deer from the 2025-26 Big Game Harvest Report; checked November 3, 2026.
Other county rules across Antlerless Deer Zone 6
- Fall gun turkey rule: open in all 17 zone counties (October 31 to November 20, 2026).
- Roosters: Blaine County, Kingfisher County, Logan County. Pheasant counties.
- West of I-35: 13 zone counties are wholly or partly west of I-35 (sandhill crane and jackrabbit).
- Elk: Northeast Zone, Northwest Zone, Southeast Zone, Southwest Zone, Special Southeast Zone, Special Southwest Zone.
- Waterfowl: Zones 1 and 2. Waterfowl zones.
- Wildlife regions: ODWC Central Region (14), ODWC Southwest Region (2), ODWC Northwest Region (1).
County rules from regs.json zones (ODWC regulation pages and maps), checked November 3, 2026.
First and last shooting light, Caddo County (Antlerless Deer Zone 6)
Quail and pheasant hours are sunrise to sunset, shorter than the big game window, and OLAP walk-in land closes to them at 4:30 p.m.
| Date | Why it matters | Sunrise | Sunset | Deer and elk | Migratory | Quail, pheasant |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | Archery deer opens | 7:27 a.m. | 7:19 p.m. | 6:57 a.m. to 7:49 p.m. | 6:57 a.m. to 7:19 p.m. | 7:27 a.m. to 7:19 p.m. |
| Oct 24, 2026 | Muzzleloader opens | 7:46 a.m. | 6:49 p.m. | 7:16 a.m. to 7:19 p.m. | 7:16 a.m. to 6:49 p.m. | 7:46 a.m. to 6:49 p.m. |
| Nov 21, 2026 | Gun deer opens | 7:14 a.m. | 5:26 p.m. | 6:44 a.m. to 5:56 p.m. | 6:44 a.m. to 5:26 p.m. | 7:14 a.m. to 5:26 p.m. |
| Dec 6, 2026 | Gun deer closes | 7:28 a.m. | 5:22 p.m. | 6:58 a.m. to 5:52 p.m. | 6:58 a.m. to 5:22 p.m. | 7:28 a.m. to 5:22 p.m. |
| Dec 21, 2026 | Shortest day | 7:38 a.m. | 5:25 p.m. | 7:08 a.m. to 5:55 p.m. | 7:08 a.m. to 5:25 p.m. | 7:38 a.m. to 5:25 p.m. |
| Jan 15, 2027 | Archery closes | 7:41 a.m. | 5:43 p.m. | 7:11 a.m. to 6:13 p.m. | 7:11 a.m. to 5:43 p.m. | 7:41 a.m. to 5:43 p.m. |
| Apr 16, 2027 | Spring turkey | 7:01 a.m. | 8:06 p.m. | 6:31 a.m. to 8:36 p.m. | 6:31 a.m. to 8:06 p.m. | 7:01 a.m. to 8:06 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.
View from a red rock rim over the Washita valley near Anadarko, Caddo County. Photo: Barbara Ann Spengler (CC BY 2.0)
Sun setting over grassland along U.S. 281 in Blaine County. Photo: Ken Lund (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Young white-tailed buck with velvet antlers among green cedars. Photo: peanutian (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Antlerless Deer Zone 6 questions
Which county in Antlerless Deer Zone 6 has the most deer?
County tables give 31,660 for 2025 across the zone; Lincoln County reported the most, 2,856.
When is muzzleloader season in Antlerless Deer Zone 6?
The same as statewide: archery October 1, 2026 to January 15, 2027; youth gun October 16-18; muzzleloader October 24 to November 1; gun November 21 to December 6; holiday antlerless December 18-31.
Largest public area in Antlerless Deer Zone 6?
7 public areas overlap the zone; the largest are Lexington WMA, Fort Cobb WMA and Grady County WMA.
What roads bound Antlerless Deer Zone 6?
It is a road line on a map, nothing more: ODWC has not published the Antlerless Deer Zone 6 boundary in words.
What is the antlerless limit in Antlerless Deer Zone 6?
ODWC sets it at “Muzzleloader 2, gun 2”; bowhunters are not bound by the antlerless numbers.
Are there carcass rules in Antlerless Deer Zone 6?
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.
Where is Antlerless Deer Zone 6?
Antlerless Deer Zone 6 takes in Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Garvin, Grady, Kingfisher, Lincoln, Logan, McClain, Murray, Oklahoma, Payne, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie and Stephens; split by a zone road: Blaine, Caddo, Carter, Garvin, Grady, Kingfisher, Lincoln, Logan, Murray, Payne, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie and Stephens.
Other photos on this page: Barbara Ann Spengler (CC BY 2.0); Ken Lund (CC BY-SA 2.0); peanutian (CC BY-SA 2.0).