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BIG GAME REGULATIONS

IMPORTATION OF CERVID A field tag can be any item, so long as the Antelope must have evidence of sex (head)
CARCASSES OR CARCASS PARTS tag contains the required information. This tag remain with the carcass until the antelope is
must remain with the carcass to its final desti-
checked in.
No person shall import, transport, or possess nation or through processing and/or storage Checking requirements for bear are listed
any cervid carcass or part of a cervid carcass at commercial processing or storage facilities. on page 41.
from outside the boundaries of Oklahoma.
The following items are the only exceptions: CHECKING REQUIREMENTS
In all cases prior to processing the carcass all DEER PROCESSORS
• Antlers or antlers attached to clean skull
plate or cleaned skulls (all tissue removed); deer, elk, antelope, bear and turkey must Deer hunters can find a list of deer
• Animal quarters containing no spinal materi- be checked within 24 hours of leaving the hunt processing sites online at wildlifedepart-
als, or meat with all parts of the spinal column area through the online E-Check system at ment.com. Many deer processors par-
removed; wildlifedepartment.com or the Go Outdoors ticipate in the Hunters Against Hunger
• Cleaned teeth; Oklahoma mobile app, or with an authorized program, which allows hunters who
• Finished taxidermy products; Department employee. legally harvest a deer during any deer
• Hides or tanned products. Once checked, the animal will be issued a season to donate the meat to feed hun-
carcass tag or an online confirmation number. gry Oklahomans. With more opportuni-
FIELD TAGGING REQUIREMENTS This tag or number must remain with the car- ties to harvest antlerless deer this fall, the
cass to its final destination or through process-
All hunters (including lifetime license holders) ing and/or storage at commercial processing time has never been better to donate to
who harvest a deer, elk, antelope, turkey or storage facilities. the Hunters Against Hunger program.
or bear must immediately attach a field tag, Deer and elk carcasses may be checked in
securely to the carcass, with their name, cus- quartered with sex organs naturally attached
tomer ID number, and date and time of harvest. and head accompanying the carcass.

DEER For requirements on hunter orange, legal means of taking, public lands, shooting hours,
carcass disposal, more than one method of take in the field, tracking with dogs, field
tagging and checking requirements, see Big Game Regulations on pages 35-36.
COMBINED SEASON LIMIT UNFILLED DEER LICENSES Jan. 1-15: must be in possession of a resident
• Six: no more than two may be antlered. Unfilled resident and nonresident deer licenses hunting license and a resident deer archery
license for the current calendar year. Unfilled
are not valid for any other deer season. For deer archery license (Jan. 1-15) may be used
This includes deer archery, youth deer gun, example: an unfilled deer muzzleloader license the following fall season.
deer muzzleloader and deer gun seasons. is not valid for the deer gun or holiday antler-
Deer taken during Jan. 1-15, 2024, count less deer gun seasons. Nonresident Youth (unless exempt):
toward the 2023 combined season limit. Unfilled resident youth deer gun licenses are
Deer taken during controlled hunts or dur- valid for deer gun and holiday antlerless deer • Nonresident Youth Deer Either Sex License
ing the holiday antlerless deer gun season do gun seasons. Antlered youth deer gun licenses (exempt from nonresident hunting license)
not count toward the combined season limit. are not valid for holiday antlerless deer gun for that particular season for each deer
season. hunted, or
ANTLERED DEER DEFINITION • Nonresident Youth Deer Antlerless License
Any deer, regardless of sex, with at least three LICENSE REQUIREMENTS (exempt from nonresident hunting license)
inches of antler length above the natural hair- Hunters must be in possession of all appro- for that particular season for each deer
line on either side. priate licenses before hunting a deer. Hunt- • Nonresident Deer License (exempt from
hunted, or
TRACKING DEVICES ers using an air-powered arrow rifle must nonresident hunting license) for that particu-
purchase a one-time Arrow Rifle Permit.
Telemetric radio tracking devices for deer lar season or a resident lifetime hunting or
combination hunting/fishing license.
hunting are legal. However, thermal tracking Youth Resident (unless exempt):
devices are illegal. Nonresident (unless exempt):
• Resident youths under 16 years of age must
ANTLERLESS DEER ZONES possess a resident youth deer license for • Nonresident Deer License (exempt from
Antlerless deer may only be harvested during that particular season for each deer hunted. nonresident hunting license) for that particu-
firearm seasons on specified days and in zones • Resident youths 16 and 17 years of age must lar season or a resident lifetime hunting or
open to antlerless harvest (see page 37 for possess a resident youth hunting license combination hunting/fishing license.
Antlerless Deer Zones). and a resident youth deer license for that
particular season for each deer hunted. SEASON DATES & BAG LIMITS
UNFILLED ANTLERED Jan. 1-15: must be in possession of a resident
DEER LICENSES hunting license and a resident deer archery DEER ARCHERY
An unfilled deer antlered license may be used to license for the current calendar year. Unfilled • Oct. 1, 2023 - Jan. 15, 2024
harvest an antlerless deer on the last day of that deer archery license (Jan. 1-15) may be used • Six: no more than two may be antlered. All
deer season in zones open to antlerless harvest. the following fall season. deer taken during the deer archery season
Hunters must still comply with the limit re- count toward the hunter’s combined season
striction of no more than four antlerless deer Resident (unless exempt): limit of six deer.
during the deer muzzleloader and/or gun sea- YOUTH DEER GUN
sons (see page 37 for Antlerless Deer Zones). • Resident Hunting License, and
• Resident Deer License for that particular • Oct. 20-22
season for each deer hunted. • Two: no more than one may be antlered.

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