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Table 2: Public Lands Harvest by County, Method, and Sex (continued)
Pontotoc Ridge Preserve 0 0 3 0 0 0 3
Pushmataha WMA 13 31 11 16 5 7 83
Red Slough WMA 16 16 2 5 0 0 39
Rita Blanca WMA 0 0 0 5 0 0 5
Robbers Cave WMA 0 4 0 0 0 0 4
Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge 3 1 37 17 16 5 79
Salt Plains NWR Wilderness Area 0 0 5 3 2 0 10
San Bois WMA 0 1 3 4 1 1 10
Sandhills WMA 3 3 1 3 0 3 13
Sandy Sanders WMA 10 28 10 6 1 4 59
Schultz WMA 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Sequoyah NWR 9 15 4 0 36 4 68
Sequoyah NWR (Refuge Island) 0 1 0 0 0 1 2
Sequoyah Resort Park 2 1 1 0 2 2 8
Skiatook COE 1 4 6 1 1 0 13
Skiatook WMA 1 4 18 15 3 4 45
Sparrow Hawk WMA 0 2 0 2 0 1 5
Spavinaw WMA (GMA Portion) 22 16 14 9 2 5 68
Spavinaw WMA (PHA Portion) 2 1 4 4 2 5 18
Stringtown WMA 0 1 0 5 0 2 8
Tenkiller COE 5 10 4 4 6 5 34
Tenkiller-B-Cabin WMA 0 0 0 3 1 0 4
Texoma COE 13 9 8 4 0 0 34
Texoma COE (Burns Run) 3 0 2 0 0 0 5
Texoma COE (Lakeside) 4 1 1 1 0 0 7
Texoma/Washita ARM WMA 1 13 11 15 2 0 42
Three Rivers WMA 64 54 130 155 72 101 576
Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge 2 0 21 5 0 0 28
Tishomingo WMA 0 6 8 6 1 1 22
USDA Grazinglands RL 0 0 2 0 0 0 2
Washita County WMA 1 0 0 1 0 0 2
Washita NWR 0 0 21 4 0 0 25
Waurika Lake COE 3 2 3 0 0 0 8
Waurika WMA 40 31 2 1 10 2 86
Webbers Fall WMA 1 3 8 0 7 0 19
Wichita MTS NWR 0 1 0 1 0 2 4
Wister WMA 18 18 27 29 20 40 152
Wister WRP 5 2 4 4 3 5 23
Yourman WMA 3 1 4 3 2 4 17
WMA Total 1,591 1,431 1,544 1,856 861 902 8,185
County Total 14,559 17,756 29,893 40,246 4,968 10,683 118,105
Grand Total 16,150 19,187 31,437 42,102 5,829 11,585 126,290
expected. Pittsburg County landed in Also notable is that archery hunt- Figure 4: 2020-21 Archery Harvest
first place with 4,447 deer harvest- ing continues to grow in popularity. by Week
ed. Osage County was closely behind The annual Game Harvest Survey 6 Bucks Does
with 4,398 deer harvested. McCur- (GHS), a long-standing ODWC scien-
5
tain County landed in third place with tific survey that tracks hunter par-
3,445 deer taken. ticipation and success, estimated 4
WMAs and other ODWC-managed a new record in archery participa- Harvest (in thousands) 3
public lands make up a small percent- tion of 141,472 hunters who chased
age (about 3 percent) of Oklahoma’s deer in 2020-21 with some form of 2
land area. But these areas account- archery gear. 1
ed for 6.5 percent of the overall deer Regulations continued to be
harvest. Details of harvest on public unchanged for archery season, 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
lands are compiled in Table 2. which was open from Oct. 1, 2020, Week
through Jan. 15, 2021. The bag lim- Figure 5: Archery Hunter
Archery Season it was six deer, but no more than Numbers and Harvest

The 2020-21 archery season set two of those could be antlered. A 40 160
another harvest record of 35,337 breakdown of harvest numbers by 35 140
deer, which was almost 5,000 more sex and by week can be seen in Fig- 30 120
than the previous record set during ure 4. Archery hunter participation 25 100
the 2019-20 season. These 35,337 and harvest from years past is rep- Harvest (in thousands) 20 80 Hunters (in thousands)
deer made up for 28 percent of resented in Figure 5. 15 60
total deer harvest for all seasons. 10 40
Bucks accounted for 54.3 percent Muzzleloader Season 5 20

of total archery harvest, with ant- Muzzleloader hunters were in 0 0
lerless deer making up the other the field from Oct. 24 through Nov. 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
45.7 percent. 1, attempting to fill a bag limit of Year

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