Pushmataha Wildlife Management Area hunting

Pushmataha WMA in numbers and names

The ODWC area page puts Pushmataha WMA at 19,247 acres. 466 acres are open to non-ambulatory permit holders by vehicle. Pushmataha County has 6 records with acreage here; Pushmataha WMA is number 3.

Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation has charge of it; ODWC counts the ground in the ODWC Southeast Region. Pushmataha County holds 124,055 acres of public land on the GIS layers.

ODWC describes it: Pushmataha WMA covers 19,247 acres of northern Pushmataha County in the southeastern part of Oklahoma. Located approximately five miles south of Clayton, Pushmataha WMA is on the western fringe of the Ouachita mountain range and is comprised of a mixture of oak/pine forest and oak/pine savannahs with steep slopes, shallow soils, and rocky terrain. In areas where the canopy has been released, all four major prairie grasses exist with numerous forbs and native legumes. There have been over 650 varieties of native plants identified on the area. Some of the native tree species you will encounter are shortleaf pine, post oak, red oak, black oak, hickory, elm, blackgum, sweetgum, rusty blackhaw, flowering dogwood, and hawthorne. You will also encounter high bush huckleberry, low bush huckleberry, different varieties of sumac, coralberry, poison ivy, green brier, blackberry, and many others.

Hunted on Pushmataha WMA: Black bear, Doves, Turkey, Deer, Trapping, Quail, Rails, Gallinules, Crows, Snipe, Woodcock, Waterfowl, Rabbits, Squirrels, Furbearers.

• Black bear
• Doves
• Wild turkey
• White-tailed deer
• Raccoon
• Quail
• Rails
• Gallinules
• Crows
• Snipe
• Woodcock
• Ducks

From the agency record (Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation); checked November 3, 2026.

Who drew Pushmataha WMA in 2025

The 2025 results list deer and youth deer hunts on Pushmataha WMA, 2 rows in all. Apply each spring (Apr 1, 2026 to May 20, 2026 in 2026); this table is last year's results, not this season's list.

ODWC 2025 controlled hunt results, ODWC controlled hunts; checked November 3, 2026.

Deer checked near Pushmataha WMA

Pushmataha WMA produced 74 reported deer in the newest season on record. In 2025-26 hunters in Pushmataha County reported 2,049 deer off private and other non-WMA land; 1,084 carried antlers. Archery took 587, muzzleloaders 425 and guns 1,037. ODWC counts 9 black bear for the county in 2025-26.

ODWC 2025-26 Big Game Harvest Report and earlier ODWC harvest reports (harvest.json); checked November 3, 2026.

Pushmataha WMA openers, game by game

Wildlife management areas can shorten or close these dates under their own area rules; this table is the county-wide picture for Pushmataha WMA.

Feral hogs on department land follow area rules.

From the ODWC hunting regulations and the 2026-2027 Oklahoma Fishing and Hunting Regulations (Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation), checked November 3, 2026.

Pushmataha WMA legal light

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.

Turkey hours end at sunset in fall and spring.

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.

Alternatives to Pushmataha WMA

Pushmataha WMA: last-minute checks

Confirm dates, permits and the antlerless zone for Pushmataha WMA before the drive.

Sources: source · source · source · source · source · source; regulations from the 2026-2027 Oklahoma Fishing and Hunting Regulations. Checked November 3, 2026.