Hunters

 

   

Participants and Days of Hunting
Home In 2001, 261 thousand state residents and nonresidents 16 years old and older who hunted in Oklahoma. Resident hunters numbered 241 thousand accounting for 92 percent of the hunters in Oklahoma. there were 20 thousand nonresidents which hunted in Oklahoma - 8 percent of the State's hunters. Residents and nonresidents hunted 5.6 million days in 2001, an average of 22 days per hunter. Residents hunted on 5.5 million days in Oklahoma or 98 percent of all hunting.

There were 241 thousand Oklahomans 16 years old and older who hunted in the United States in 2001. Of the total 6 million days of hunting by state residents, 5.5 million days (93 percent of the total) were spent pursuing game within Oklahoma.

Some State residents hunted in other states as well as in Oklahoma. Altogether, 45 thousand Oklahoma hunters, 19 percent of the total, hunted as nonresidents in other states. Their 419 thousand days of hunting in other states represented 7 percent of all the days Oklahoma residents spent hunting in 2001.
   
Purchase a License  
   
Wildlife Diversity  
   
Fishing  
Law Enforcement
Hunting
    Hunters in Oklahoma      
Outdoor Calendar   (State residents and nonresident 16 years old and older)  
    Hunters 261 thousand    
Educational Programs   Resident 241 thousand    
    Nonresident 20 thousand    
About the Department          
    Days of hunters 5.6 million    
    Resident 5.5 million    
    Nonresident 96 thousand    
           
    In-State/Out-of-State      
    (State residents 16 years old and older)    
    Oklahoma hunters 241 thousand    
      In Oklahoma 241 thousand    
      In other states 45 thousand    
    Days of hunters 6.0 million    
      In Oklahoma 5.5 million    
      In other states 419 thousand    

Hunting Expenditures in Oklahoma

Hunters 16 years old and older spent $284 million on fishing expenses in Oklahoma in 2001. Trip-related expenditures including food and lodging, transportation and other expenses totaled $97 million-34 percent of their total expenditures. They spent $45 million on food and lodging and $44 million on transportation. Other trip expenses such as equipment rental totaled $8 million. Each angler spent an average of $372 on trip-related costs during 2001.

Hunters spent $130 million on equipment-46 percent of all fishing expenditures. Hunting equipment (guns, ammunition, etc.) totaled $97 million and compromised 75 percent of all equipment costs. Hunters spent $33 million and on auxiliary equipment (tens, special hunting cloths, etc.) and special equipment (boats, pickups, etc.), accounting for 25 percent of total equipment expenditures for hunting. Special and auxiliary equipment are items purchased for hunting but could be used in activities other than hunting.

The purchase of other items such as magazines, membership dues, licenses, permits, stamps and land leasing and ownership cost hunters $57 million-20 percent of all hunting expenditures.

Hunting Expenditures in Oklahoma
(State residents and nonresidents 16 years old and older)

Total

 $284 million    
 

Trip-related

 $97 million    
 

Equipment

 $130 million    
   

Fishing

 $97 million    
   

Auxiliary and special

 $33 million      
 

Other

 $57 million      

From the 2001 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation