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The Wildlife Department’s annu- al Game Harvest Survey estimated 77,618 hunters participated in muz- zleloader season. This is a slight de- cline from last season’s 79,248. With the decline in hunters came a decline in harvest.
After the season closed, muzzle- loader hunters had reported 14,306 deer taken, which made up 13.1 per- cent of overall harvest. That was down 13.6 percent from the 2017-18 season.
Figure 5 shows muzzleloader buck and doe harvest by day. Muzzleload- er hunter numbers and harvest from 2004 to current can be seen in Figure 6.
Deer Gun Seasons
Oklahoma Deer Management Zones
The 2018 gun season began Nov. 17 and ran for 16 days. Bag limits remained unchanged from the 2017 season, with hunters having the opportunity to harvest three deer, with no more than one antlered. Hunters had to harvest at least one antlerless deer from Management Zones 2, 7 or 8. A day-by-day breakdown of harvest is shown in Figure 7.
3.0 2.5 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5
Bucks Does
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019
17
CIMARRON
TEXAS
OTTAWA
CHEROKEE ADAIR SEQUOYAH
BEAVER
HARPER
ELLIS
ROGER MILLS
BECKHAM GREER
WOODS
ALFALFA
MAJOR BLAINE
CADDO
COMANCHE
COTTON
GRANT
GARFIELD
KINGFISHER
CANADIAN
GRADY
KAY
NOBLE
LOGAN
OKLAHOMA CLEVELAND
McCLAIN GARVIN
CRAIG
WOODWARD
PAWNEE PAYNE
LINCOLN
OSAGE
CREEK OKFUSKEE
ROGERS
TULSA WAGONER
MAYES
DEWEY CUSTER
WASHITA KIOWA
OKMULGEE
MUSKOGEE McINTOSH
JACKSON
TILLMAN
STEPHENS
CARTER
JEFFERSON
LOVE
Figure 5: 2018 Muzzleloader Harvest by Day
0 10/27 10/28 10/29 10/30 10/31 11/1 11/2
Day
11/3 11/4
Figure 6: Muzzleloader Season Hunter Numbers and Harvest
35 120
30 25 20 15 10
100 80 60 40 20
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Year
MURRAY
PONTOTOC
PITTSBURG
JOHNSTON MARSHALL
PUSHMATAHA CHOCTAW
HUGHES
COAL
ATOKA BRYAN
LATIMER
LE FLORE
McCURTAIN
HASKELL
Number of Hunters (in thousands)
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
HARMON
Harvest (in thousands)
Harvest (in thousands)
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