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CONTROLLED HUNTS:

Learn What You Can Control

INCREASE YOUR SELECTION CHANCES BY STUDYING AND PLAYING THE ODDS

Take some time and look into last year’s statis- individual controlled hunt permits available Elk in the mist in
southwestern Oklahoma.
tics on controlled hunts, and you could increase last year. Many of those applicants will apply
the likelihood that your name will be drawn again this year when the 2024-25 controlled
this year for a controlled hunts application submis-
hunt permit. The numbers 2023-24 OVERALL sion period opens online.
do reveal some application The No. 1 most import-
trends that you could use to ODDS OF ant thing a hopeful hunter
your advantage. BEING DRAWN: can do is to apply each year.
In the 2023-24 con- The controlled hunts
trolled hunts drawing, 1 IN 23.6 application period will
about one out of every open April 1, 2024, at
23 applicants had his or GoOutdoorsOklahoma.
her name drawn. Hopeful hunters turned com (https://license.gooutdoorsoklahoma.
in 123,691 applications for one of the 5,251 com/Licensing/CustomerLookup.aspx). The

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