HuntingRulebook

Idaho · Deer · 2026

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

Idaho 2026 season

In the order they open

  • Aug 30 – Dec 24General Archery OnlyThe panhandle — a September block and a Christmas blockPrinted in 7 columns — check which covers your game management unit.
  • Aug 30 – Dec 19General Archery OnlyThe white-tailed December unitsPrinted in 7 columns — check which covers your game management unit.
  • Aug 30 – Sep 30General Archery OnlySeptember, antlerless openPrinted in 7 columns — check which covers your game management unit.
  • Aug 30 – Sep 30General Archery OnlySeptember, antlered onlyPrinted in 7 columns — check which covers your game management unit.
  • Aug 30 – Nov 6General Short Range WeaponUnit 53 — a portion onlyPrinted in 3 columns — check which covers your game management unit.
  • Sep 8–30General Muzzleloader OnlyUnit 39 — antlerless onlyPrinted in 3 columns — check which covers your game management unit.
  • Sep 15 – Nov 20General Any WeaponUnits 16A, 17, 19 and 20Printed in 7 columns — check which covers your game management unit.
  • Sep 15 – Oct 31General Any WeaponUnits 20A, 26 and 27Printed in 7 columns — check which covers your game management unit.
  • Oct 10 – Dec 1General Any WeaponUnits 1, 2, 3, 4A, 5 and 6Printed in 7 columns — check which covers your game management unit.
  • Oct 10 – Nov 9General Any WeaponUnits 4, 7 and 9Printed in 7 columns — check which covers your game management unit.
  • Oct 10 – Nov 3General Any WeaponUnits 8, 8A, 10, 10A, 12, 15 and 16Printed in 7 columns — check which covers your game management unit.
  • Oct 10–31General Any WeaponThree-week October unitsPrinted in 7 columns — check which covers your game management unit.
  • Oct 10–24General Any WeaponTwo-week October unitsPrinted in 7 columns — check which covers your game management unit.
  • Oct 10–24General Muzzleloader OnlyUnit 73APrinted in 3 columns — check which covers your game management unit.
  • Oct 10–31General Short Range WeaponUnit 38Printed in 3 columns — check which covers your game management unit.
  • Oct 10–24General Short Range WeaponUnit 63Printed in 3 columns — check which covers your game management unit.
  • Nov 10–30General Archery OnlyUnit 39 — NovemberPrinted in 7 columns — check which covers your game management unit.
  • Nov 10 – Dec 1General Muzzleloader OnlyUnits 4, 7 and 9Printed in 3 columns — check which covers your game management unit.
  • Nov 16 – Dec 10General Archery OnlyUnit 55 — mid-November to DecemberPrinted in 7 columns — check which covers your game management unit.
  • Dec 1–31General Archery OnlyUnits 28 — DecemberPrinted in 7 columns — check which covers your game management unit.

Transcribed from the published 2026 Idaho digest. Where this app and the digest disagree, the digest is the law. Read the Idaho Department of Fish and Game digest.

Idaho deer seasons, 2026

Idaho’s 2026 deer seasons run August 30, 2026 to December 31, 2026, and what is open on a given day depends on the game management unit your stand is in. Drop a pin above and this app reads the game management unit 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 Idaho Department of Fish and Game digest. It is a planning aid, not the law: check the digest before you hunt.

Every screen for Idaho

  • Today in Idaho 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 Idaho Drop a pin and see the unit, the public land and the property lines under it.
  • Weather in Idaho Wind, temperature and the scent cone over your ground, hour by hour, for the days you can still choose between.
  • Calendar in Idaho Every day your tags are good for in your unit, from opening day to the end of the season.
  • Rut in Idaho When the rut runs where you hunt, and which week is worth taking off.
  • Rules in Idaho The legal arms, bag limits, antler restrictions and shooting hours that apply at your pin.
  • Tags in Idaho 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.