HuntingRulebook

Arkansas · Deer · 2026-27

This is every Arkansas deer season and the day it opens, the whole state at once. A pin turns it into a day-by-day calendar for one deer zone, with your own tags marked against it.

Arkansas 2026-27 season

In the order they open

  • Aug 29–31Early Buck-only ArcheryStatewide
  • Sep 26 – Feb 28ArcheryStatewide
  • Oct 17 – Dec 14Alternative FirearmsZones 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 11Printed in 3 columns — check which covers your deer zone.
  • Oct 17 – Dec 21Alternative FirearmsZones 4A, 5A, 14 and 15Printed in 3 columns — check which covers your deer zone.
  • Oct 17–25Alternative FirearmsZones 9, 12, 13, 16, 16A and 17Printed in 3 columns — check which covers your deer zone.
  • Nov 7 – Jan 3Youth Modern Gun HuntStatewide
  • Nov 14 – Dec 28Modern GunZones 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 11Printed in 5 columns — check which covers your deer zone.
  • Nov 14 – Dec 28Modern GunZones 4 and 5Printed in 5 columns — check which covers your deer zone.
  • Nov 14 – Dec 28Modern GunZones 4A, 5A, 14 and 15Printed in 5 columns — check which covers your deer zone.
  • Nov 14 – Dec 28Modern GunZones 9, 12 and 13Printed in 5 columns — check which covers your deer zone.
  • Nov 14 – Dec 28Modern GunZones 16, 16A and 17Printed in 5 columns — check which covers your deer zone.

Transcribed from the published 2026-27 Arkansas digest. Where this app and the digest disagree, the digest is the law. Read the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission digest.

Arkansas deer seasons, 2026-27

Arkansas’s 2026-27 deer seasons run August 29, 2026 to February 28, 2027, and what is open on a given day depends on the deer zone your stand is in. Drop a pin above and this app reads the deer zone off it, then answers the rest from there — the dates, the legal arms, the bag limits and the shooting hours, transcribed page by page from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission digest. It is a planning aid, not the law: check the digest before you hunt.

Every screen for Arkansas

  • Today in Arkansas — Whether the season is open at your pin this morning, what you may take, and the legal light either end of the day.
  • Map in Arkansas — Drop a pin and see the unit, the public land and the property lines under it.
  • Weather in Arkansas — Wind, temperature and the scent cone over your ground, hour by hour, for the days you can still choose between.
  • Calendar in Arkansas — Every day your tags are good for in your unit, from opening day to the end of the season.
  • Rut in Arkansas — When the rut runs where you hunt, and which week is worth taking off.
  • Rules in Arkansas — The legal arms, bag limits, antler restrictions and shooting hours that apply at your pin.
  • Tags in Arkansas — The licences and permits you hold — what turns the published season into your season.

The other states

Every state — the app opens on whichever one your own pin falls in.