Their (bears) whole thing is to put on as much weight as they can between now and when the food is gone. "It's not like deer hunting, where it is early morning or late in the evening," Ford said. They like a variety to their diet."įord said bear hunters must be patient and go prepared to sit all day long as a bear might show up at any time of day. They get tired of having the same thing every day. "Once the acorns start falling, they will normally go to those, but if you are patient after a week or so, they normally come back to the bait. "If I was going to bear hunt, I would want to be there on opening day," Ford said. Cold and wet conditions also will make bears less active. Bears also start moving around less after a few days of seeing a lot of hunters in the woods, Ford said. Most bears are taken early in the archery season when they are coming to bait. Baiting for bears is illegal on public land. There is a lot of public hunting land in the Ouachita National Forest in southeastern Oklahoma, but most bears are taken by hunters on private land where baiting with pastries and other food is allowed. The 20-bear limit has never been reached. 22-30, although the season closes as soon as 20 bears are killed. Crossbows are the usual weapon of choice for black bear bow hunting.īear muzzleloader season runs Oct. The vast majority of bears are taken by hunters in the original four southeastern Oklahoma counties that opened for hunting, primarily Le Flore County where 37 bears were checked in by hunters last season.Ī total of 70 were taken during the archery and muzzleloader seasons, with 66 of them being taken by bow hunters. People tend to give up real quick if they haven't bear hunted a lot." "It's just a matter of being there when they are. "We still get a lot of people seeing them on trail cameras in those counties," Ford said. Only five bears have been killed by hunters in the newly expanded hunting areas, said Jeff Ford, senior wildlife biologist for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. In 2019, bear hunting was expanded to Haskell, Choctaw and portions of Bryan, Atoka, Pittsburg, McIntosh, Muskogee and Sequoyah counties, areas south of Interstate 40 and east of U.S. Since 2009, black bear hunting has been legal in four southeastern Oklahoma counties: Latimer, Le Flore, Pushmataha and McCurtain.
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The archery season for black bears also opens Oct.
'CWD is a threat': Oklahoma wildlife officials to increase monitoring for deer disease The opening week of the season produced the third most deer harvested last year during archery season. Last season, bow hunters found the most success for deer during the weeks of mid-October. An estimated 117,216 bow hunters participated in the archery season.įor all deer hunting seasons, including gun and muzzleloader, the statewide harvest was 117,629, the third highest in state history.Īrchery deer hunting regulations are unchanged for this season, with a liberal bag limit of six deer and no more than two can be antlered.Īir powered arrow rifles have been approved for deer hunting, but only during the rifle gun seasons. 15, and it is the most popular of the bow seasons with deer found in every county of the state.Īrchery hunting continues to grow in popularity as bow hunters last season set a record for deer harvested for the third consecutive year.īow hunters killed 36,522 deer last season, just over 30% of the total number of deer taken by Oklahoma hunters. The archery deer season is a long one, running through Jan. Oklahoma's big game archery seasons for deer, elk, bear and antelope open Oct. Watch Video: Grappling with flathead catfish: An Oklahoma noodling adventure
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