Four deer in any one zone, and six deer statewide across every zone and method, of which no more than two may be antlered bucks. The two bucks may be taken with archery, alternative firearms or modern gun. Button bucks count against the antlerless side of the bag, not the antlered, but must still be checked as button bucks. AGFC, Deer Seasons and Limits by Zone; Guidebook, printed pp. 6 and 12.
You
What you pay, and in several states what you are even offered.
Residency
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission prices residents and non-residents differently, and sells some tags to only one of them.
Licences
Without one of these there is no legal way to hunt deer here.
Tags and permits
Good anywhere in the state.
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Nothing in your wallet yet
Tick what you hold and the calendar starts answering for you rather than for everybody. Arkansas Game and Fish Commission sells them at the link below.
Prices are what the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission printed for 2026-27, and are here to help you recognise a tag rather than to sell you one.
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
Alabama deer seasons — 2026-27, October 1, 2026 to February 10, 2027, by deer zone.
Alaska deer seasons — 2026-27, August 1, 2026 to December 31, 2026, by game management subunit.
Arizona deer seasons — 2026-27, August 21, 2026 to January 31, 2027, by Game Management Unit.