One deer for each licence and transportation tag the hunter holds, and a resident may hold at most two general deer licences — one for the bow season and one for a firearm season. So two antlered deer is the ceiling, and in Zone B both of them must be bucks with at least one forked antler. Regulations pp. 36 and 40.
You
What you pay, and in several states what you are even offered.
Residency
Iowa Department of Natural Resources 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.
Tags for a unit
Drop a pin first — these are sold per county, and the app will not guess which one you meant.
Nothing to tick here yet.
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Nothing in your wallet yet
Tick what you hold and the calendar starts answering for you rather than for everybody. Iowa Department of Natural Resources sells them at the link below.
Prices are what the Iowa Department of Natural Resources printed for 2026-27, and are here to help you recognise a tag rather than to sell you one.
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
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.
Arkansas deer seasons — 2026-27, August 29, 2026 to February 28, 2027, by deer zone.