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Table 2: WMA Harvest by County, Sex, and Method (continued)
Archery Gun Muzzleloader
WMA Name Antlered Antlerless Antlered Antlerless Antlered Antlerless Total
Ouachita WMA (Cucumber Creek) 0 0 4 5 3 1 13
Ouachita WMA (McCurtain Unit) 11 8 30 29 21 13 112
Ouachita WMA (Le Flore) 21 23 53 58 34 21 210
Ozark Plateau NWR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ozark Plateau 2 2 0 0 1 0 5
Packsaddle WMA 2 1 47 14 1 11 76
Pine Creek COE 3 4 6 3 2 3 21
Pine Creek WMA 5 9 11 5 3 5 38
Pontotoc Ridge 0 0 0 2 0 0 2
Pushmataha WMA 33 16 22 14 6 1 92
Red Slough WMA 15 19 0 0 0 0 34
Rita Blanca WMA 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
Robbers Cave WMA 0 0 2 1 2 0 5
Salt Plains 1 1 22 42 3 6 75
Salt Plains NWR Wild. Area 0 0 1 2 0 0 3
Sandhills WMA 11 4 2 1 5 0 23
Sandy Sanders 10 9 5 2 2 10 38
Sans Bois WMA 3 3 1 0 2 0 9
Schooler PFA 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Schultz WMA 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
Sequoyah NWR 13 4 0 0 6 33 56
Sequoyah NWR (Refuge Island) 0 2 0 0 0 0 2
Sequoyah Resort Park 0 1 0 0 7 14 22
Shorb WMA 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Skiatook COE 2 2 3 2 0 1 10
Skiatook WMA 1 5 13 19 3 6 47
Sparrow Hawk 1 3 4 2 1 0 11
Spavinaw WMA 17 12 8 7 3 0 47
Spavinaw WMA 3 2 8 5 1 3 22
Stringtown WMA 0 0 4 0 1 2 7
Tenkiller COE 7 7 9 9 9 3 44
Tenkiller-B-Cabin 0 0 1 3 3 2 9
Texoma COE 8 10 8 6 0 0 32
Texoma COE (Burns 2 4 1 0 0 0 7
Texoma COE 3 1 0 0 0 0 4
Texoma/Washitaar 4 1 20 14 2 1 42
Three Rivers WMA 51 61 124 125 58 41 460
Tishomingo 3 1 6 24 0 0 34
Tishomingo WMA 2 4 6 2 0 0 14
USDA Grazinglands RL 0 1 2 16 0 0 19
Vanderwork PFA 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
Washita County 1 1 0 0 0 0 2
Washita NWR 0 0 1 14 0 0 15
Waurika Lake COE 0 2 0 1 0 0 3
Waurika WMA 46 40 2 1 7 7 103
Webbers Fall WMA 0 0 4 0 0 0 4
Whitegrass Flats 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Wichita Mountains WR 2 0 2 0 0 1 5
Wister WMA 12 14 29 44 18 21 138
Wister WRP 5 4 2 2 1 1 15
Yourman WMA 2 0 2 3 0 1 8
WMA Total 1,410 1,496 1,874 1,531 570 710 7,591
County Total 18,386 13,861 39,327 26,147 7,112 3,836 108,669
OLAP Total 629 740 0 0 0 0 1,369
Grand Total 20,425 16,097 41,201 27,678 7,682 4,546 117,629
the western areas of the state. Oklahoma is on accounting for just over 30 percent of the total
the eastern fringe of the mule deer’s natural deer harvest. Antlerless deer made up 44 per-
range, with the same being true for the prong- cent of the archery total. The annual Game
horn. This results in an inconsistent population Harvest Survey (GHS), a scientific survey con-
across the landscape and fragmentation of ducted by the Wildlife Department, has been
those populations. However, hunters managed tracking hunter metrics for decades. The GHS
to take 254 mule deer during the 2021-22 sea- estimated that 117,216 archers took to the field
son. Mule deer buck harvest totaled 243, while this past season with a deer license in hand.
11 does were taken. Table 3 represents mule Archery regulations were unchanged,
deer harvest by county, sex, and method. with the season running from Oct. 1, 2021,
through Jan. 15, 2022. The bag limit was six
Deer Archery Season deer, with no more than two being antlered.
Archery hunting continues to grow in pop- A breakdown of harvest by sex and week can
ularity, which can be seen in a record-set- be seen in Figure 4. Archery hunter partici-
ting harvest for a third year in a row. Archers pation and harvest from years past is repre-
took 36,522 deer during the 2021-22 season, sented in Figure 5.

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