Not sure by what you mean by “deer rifle friendly”. There are plenty of deer to be hunted with a rifle, tags can be bought over the counter for residents and non residents. Lots of good public land opportunities all over the state.
That’s why so many people come here to hunt.
FWIW almost any public lands will have plenty of doe to hunt. They are everywhere.
I mean most of the Ok WMA's and a couple of OLAP's I've looked at so far (at least in the SW or SE) are any combination of one or more of the following:
-closed to regular gun seasons altogether, no rifles period
-allow shotguns but no rifles
-are closed to holiday antler-less gun seasons, no female deer with rifles for 14 days out of total deer season
-have short (nine-day) gun seasons, very few rifle days
-allow guns but not for antler-less harvest, no female deer will die by bullets
The best I could see so far are a couple of WMA's that allow a hunter to take a doe (or any-sex deer) with a rifle during a short 9-day window of regular gun season AND an antler-less deer (doe) during a longer 14-day window of the holiday antler-less gun season. I could even open up some more Ok deer/doe possibilities for myself by buying a slug barrel for my Mossberg 500 since some OLAPs allow shotguns but no rifles. Muzzle-loading and archery is something I definitely won't get into.
Many public areas have restrictions to some degree on weapon types, ammo types, hunter age bracket and/or deer sex. There are some youth-only (oh, those bratty punk-arse kids!!) seasons. Older hunters get robbed by the system here. I don't mind special seasons for seniors, however, or special vehicle access privileges for disabled hunters.
There maybe plenty of doe to hunt on public lands but you may need a bow or muzzle-loader to do it depending on the place and time of year during deer season.
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