Blackgum, Oklahoma: public land within reach

Lands to hunt near Blackgum

Map pins and table rows cover 14 areas; the bold pins are land reaching within 10 miles of Blackgum.

Camp Gruber Training Center is the largest area inside 25 miles, at 51,840 acres by ODWC or federal figures. Sorted by program, the land near Blackgum is 12 ODWC-managed areas, 1 OLAP tract, 3 federal areas and 4 lake or park areas. Stands on Tenkiller WMA must be portable, carry your customer ID and come down within 14 days. Phone (918) 931-0432 reaches the area staff. ODWC requires nonresident check-in on Tenkiller WMA. On OLAP tracts such as Sequoyah County OLAP walk-in H002, access runs from two hours before sunrise to one hour after sunset, and quail and pheasant hunting ends at 4:30 p.m. No acreage is printed for Tenkiller Ferry Lake (Corps); the Tulsa District pages could not be read directly for this guide. At Sequoyah NWR, hunting is limited to the refuge hunt units and the federal refuge rules. Stay out of McClellan-Kerr WRP between October 15 and January 31 unless you hold a controlled hunt permit for it. Duck hunters on the Wetland Development Units of McClellan-Kerr WRP quit at 1 p.m. and carry no lead.

Close-in areas around Blackgum, one line each

• Tenkiller WMA: 2,590 acres; open for deer, dove, waterfowl, rabbit, squirrel; camping is not permitted on the area (area map)
• Cherokee GMA: 15,360 acres; species: turkey, deer, quail, squirrel, rabbit; one designated primitive camping area is found in the PHA (printable map)
• Cherokee PHA: 16,000 acres; non-ambulatory area 1,404; open for deer, turkey, dove, quail, waterfowl; one designated primitive camping area is found in the PHA (ODWC area map)
• Cherokee WMA: 31,360 acres; game: turkey, deer, quail, squirrel, rabbit
• Lower Illinois River PFHA: 320 acres; open for dove, deer, waterfowl, turkey, quail; the Watts Unit is walk-in only and does not allow camping (printable map)

Lands from ODWC area pages, Public Hunting Areas special regulations and the OLAP layer, USFWS, USFS, NPS, Corps and installation records (lands.json; each land page cites its own source); 2025 deer harvest by area from the ODWC 2025-26 big game harvest report. Boundary miles from places.json, other miles to each mapped point. Area rules from the Department-Managed Area Rules. Checked November 3, 2026.

Blackgum open seasons, 2026-27

Oklahoma runs one set of deer dates statewide; Sequoyah County sits in antlerless Zone 4, which only changes how many does a hunter may take. The 65 rows below are from the ODWC regulation pages.

Antlerless zone lines follow roads; near a line, check the ODWC zone map first.

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

Blackgum processors and gun shops

Game processors come from the ODWC game processor list and directory listings; commercial hunting areas from the ODWC licensed list. To give venison to food banks, 3:16 Deer Processing (15 mi) is a Hunters Against Hunger processor. For a shoulder mount, Dirty Creek Taxidermy in Muskogee is 18 mi away. Iron Sights Guns (Sallisaw) heads the shop list at 15 mi. Among licensed pay-hunt operations, Seven Oaks Game Birds (Sallisaw) is first on the list, with an ODWC Upland Game license.

Deer processing

Taxidermy studios

Gear shops

Commercial hunting areas

Processors from the ODWC game processor list (Hunters Against Hunger column) and Yellow Pages; commercial hunting areas from the ODWC commercial hunt area list; taxidermists and shops from Yellow Pages and chain store locators (services.json). Listings without coordinates are placed at their town. Checked November 3, 2026; hours were not checked.

Hunting events within a drive of Blackgum

Counted within some 30 miles of town on November 3, 2026: 17 upcoming listings (DU bingo night, DU chapter dinner, NWTF banquet, NWTF bingo fundraiser, NWTF women’s mentored hunt, ODWC controlled hunt and ODWC youth draw). Controlled hunt rows (11) admit only hunters whose names came up in the ODWC draw.

Scheduled dates

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Game wardens and ODWC staff near Blackgum

For a counter visit, the closest ODWC office to Blackgum is in Porter, 34 miles off. Call Matt Mattioda, Northeast Region supervisor, at (918) 625-4475 about WMAs near Blackgum. Law enforcement District 2 covers Sequoyah County under Captain David Robertson. To reach a Sequoyah County game warden, ODWC lists (918) 431-2550 and (918) 431-2544. The Wildlife Conservation Commission groups Sequoyah County in District 2.

Offices from the ODWC offices list, game warden districts and captains from the ODWC game warden directory, region supervisors from the ODWC administrative boundaries layer, county warden phones from ODWC area pages (counties.json, services.json, lands.json). Offices without a geocoded address are measured to their town. Checked November 3, 2026.

Blackgum hunters ask

Answers from places.json, lands.json, counties.json, services.json and the 2026-2027 Oklahoma Fishing and Hunting Regulations; reporting from ODWC, hunter orange from the ODWC big game regulations, baiting from ODWC, Sunday hunting from ODWC seasons, the Land Access Permit from the ODWC license fees, CWD from ODWC. Checked November 3, 2026.

Blackgum pre-trip checks

For hunts out of Blackgum, the special regulations on each land page and the ODWC regulations settle any doubt.