Jan 11, 2025
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — Senator Grant Green has drafted Senate Bill 338, which if passed, would drop the current antlered deer bag limit from two to one. Senator Green hasn't provided much information about why he's proposing the bill. Rick Nolan, President of the Oklahoma Hunters and Anglers, said years ago, hunters could harvest three bucks. Oklahoma aims to ban all but two cities from providing homeless shelters, homeless outreach "I would like to know what his goals are and what the motivation behind him lowering the limit is," said Nolan. Nolan said dropping the antlered deer bag limit could be risky. "If there's too many deer for the for the carrying capacity of the land, something will give, the deer will disperse. I think it's been proven that having the right balance of the deer population on the landscape, you'll have healthier deer, you'll have a sustain animal population to hunt," Nolan said. Currently, Oklahoma hunters can kill two antlered deer and four antlerless deer each season. In the state, any kind of antlered deer, buck or doe, must have at least three inches of antler growth. Nolan said three inches of growth is important because a hunter could mistake a young buck or doe for an antlerless deer. "A six or seven month old deer, a six or seven month old male deer may not have antlers, so you can't tell that it's a male. You can only see that it doesn't have antlers. So if you harvest that deer, it's considered an analogous deer," said Nolan. Nolan estimates there are 250,000 hunters, and out of that number, around 170,000 he believes are deer hunters. Nolan said, "The deer herd is apparently healthy because we continue to almost set new records of harvest every year." I reached out to Senator Green for comment and haven't heard back yet. I also reached out to the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation about the bill, and haven't gotten a response yet.
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