Oklahoma hunters have already checked in 30,500 deer this season. However, that pace is slightly behind last year.
As a general rule, deer aren’t moving much around during most of the muzzleloader season, but that will soon change with the beginning of the rut, the time of year when whitetails become less cautious. Deer are now starting to move more during the day, and some bucks already have been seen trailing does.
Okla.’s 16 day deer gun season, the biggest hunting season of the year, begins the Saturday before Thanksgiving. Almost 200,000 hunters in Okla. participate in the deer gun season.
Archery deer season remains open thru Jan. 15th. [So, you can expect to see more of those arrow-impaled deer wandering around for another 2 months….]
The Okla. Dept. of Wildlife Conservation has extended the deadline for the agency’s guided youth waterfowl hunts to Nov. 21. The youth hunts are open to hunters ages 12 to 15 who have completed the hunter education course. An adult guardian must accompany the youth hunter. Many of the states wildlife refuges have guided hunts.
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Very sorrowful. What is Pennsylvania doing regarding deer hunts?
I haven’t looked up that state, but I’m sure there’s plenty of killing going on there too. I get the weekly Oklahoma Hunting News in an email off another animal list.
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Well, maybe this can be some good news from Maine? I have only heard 9 gunshots, three were rapid so maybe one of those soul-less humans fell down a well hole?:-) The only guy that I saw out there couldn’t get a deer unless it jumped out in front of his truck. I’m thinking the deer in Maine are doing pretty good this year. One of the elderly trophy hunters is in the ICU for forgetting his diabetic meds. Another one lost the use of his legs. Maine has a huge elderly population. They are just getting too frail to hunt.