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four deer, of which no more than participation was the highest since Gun Season
one could be antlered. Additional 2009. The result was 17,414 deer Hunters aiming to harvest deer
antlerless harvest was encouraged harvested, the most for muzzle- with a gun could go afield from Nov.
by the liberalization of antlerless loaders since 2012. Antlered deer 21 through Dec. 6, 2020. The gun sea-
bag limits offered in specific Deer totaled for 67 percent of harvest, son brought some small changes to
Antlerless Zones as shown in Fig- while antlerless made up the re- the bag limit structure. The bag limit
ure 11. maining 33 percent. A breakdown was changed to four, but only one of
Estimates from the GHS show of harvest by day can be seen in those could be antlered. There were
that about 97,000 hunters took Figure 6, while hunter harvest and also some antlerless harvest changes
advantage of the under-utilized numbers from previous years are within Antlerless Deer Zones, which
muzzleloader hunting method. But displayed in Figure 7. can be seen in Figure 11.
Figure 6: 2020 Muzzleloader
Harvest by Day
3.5
Bucks Does
3.0 Carmon merriman Briggs/readers' Photo showCase 2020
Harvest (in thousands) 2.0
2.5

1.5
1.0

0.5
0
10/24 10/25 10/26 10/27 10/28 10/29 10/30 10/31 11/1
Date
Figure 7: Muzzleloader Season
Harvest and Hunter Numbers
35 120
30 100
Harvest (in thousands) 20 80 Hunters (in thousands)
25
60
15
40
10
5 20
0 0
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Year
Figure 8: 2020 Gun Season Figure 11: Deer Antlerless Zones
Harvest by Day
10
Bucks Does CIMARRON TEXAS BEAVER HARPER WOODS ALFALFA GRANT KAY NOWATA CRAIG OTTAWA
9 ELLIS WOODWARD MAJOR GARFIELD NOBLE PAWNEE OSAGE WASHINGTON ROGERS MAYES DELAWARE
Harvest (in thousands) 8 6 5 4 7 BECKHAM WASHITA BLAINE KINGFISHER OKLAHOMA PAYNE LINCOLN CREEK OKMULGEE McINTOSH HASKELL ADAIR

WAGONER
TULSA
LOGAN
DEWEY
CHEROKEE
MUSKOGEE
ROGER
CUSTER
MILLS
OKFUSKEE
SEQUOYAH
CANADIAN
POTTAWATOMIE
SEMINOLE
CLEVELAND
2 3 HARMON GREER KIOWA CADDO GRADY McCLAIN GARVIN PONTOTOC HUGHES PITTSBURG LATIMER LE FLORE
1 JACKSON COMANCHE STEPHENS COAL
TILLMAN MURRAY ATOKA PUSHMATAHA
0 COTTON JEFFERSON CARTER JOHNSTON CHOCTAW McCURTAIN
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