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Idaho · Deer · 2026

Deer tags

Idaho · 2026

Tags held

0

resident prices

Spend

$0

at the printed fee schedule

Seasons covered

drop a pin first

Bucks taken

0 of 1

"No person may take more than one (1) deer, elk, pronghorn, moose, bighorn sheep, mountain goat, black bear, or gray wolf during a calendar year" — with two exceptions: a depredation hunt tag allows one additional deer, and an extra tag hunt allows one more. And "in no event may any person take more deer, elk, pronghorn, mountain lion, black bear, or gray wolf in a calendar year than the number of tags the person legally possesses for each species." A second deer tag may be bought from early August at the non-resident price, but not for use in Units 10, 10A, 12, 16A, 17, 19 or 20. Brochure, printed pp. 31 and 95.

You

What you pay, and in several states what you are even offered.

Residency

Idaho Department of Fish and Game 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.

Nothing in your wallet yet

Tick what you hold and the calendar starts answering for you rather than for everybody. Idaho Department of Fish and Game sells them at the link below.
Buy licences and tags at Idaho Department of Fish and Game

Prices are what the Idaho Department of Fish and Game printed for 2026, and are here to help you recognise a tag rather than to sell you one.

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.