HuntingRulebook

Iowa · Deer · 2026-27

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

Iowa 2026-27 season

In the order they open

  • Sep 19 – Oct 4Youth SeasonStatewide
  • Sep 19 – Oct 4Disabled Hunter SeasonStatewide
  • Oct 1 – Jan 10Bow SeasonZone APrinted in 2 columns — check which covers your county.
  • Oct 1 – Jan 10Bow SeasonZone BPrinted in 2 columns — check which covers your county.
  • Oct 17–25Early MuzzleloaderZone APrinted in 2 columns — check which covers your county.
  • Oct 17–25Early MuzzleloaderZone BPrinted in 2 columns — check which covers your county.
  • Dec 5–9Regular Gun 1Zone APrinted in 3 columns — check which covers your county.
  • Dec 5–9Regular Gun 1Zone A, bucks-only countiesPrinted in 3 columns — check which covers your county.
  • Dec 5–9Regular Gun 1Zone BPrinted in 3 columns — check which covers your county.
  • Dec 12–20Regular Gun 2Zone APrinted in 2 columns — check which covers your county.
  • Dec 12–20Regular Gun 2Zone BPrinted in 2 columns — check which covers your county.
  • Dec 21 – Jan 10Late MuzzleloaderZone APrinted in 2 columns — check which covers your county.
  • Dec 21 – Jan 10Late MuzzleloaderZone BPrinted in 2 columns — check which covers your county.
  • Dec 24 – Jan 2Non-resident Holiday SeasonStatewide
  • Jan 11–24January Antlerless SeasonsWhere licences remain

Transcribed from the published 2026-27 Iowa digest. Where this app and the digest disagree, the digest is the law. Read the Iowa Department of Natural Resources digest.

Iowa deer seasons, 2026-27

Iowa’s 2026-27 deer seasons run September 19, 2026 to January 24, 2027, and what is open on a given day depends on the county your stand is in. Drop a pin above and this app reads the county 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 Iowa Department of Natural Resources digest. It is a planning aid, not the law: check the digest before you hunt.

Every screen for Iowa

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