HuntingRulebook

Kentucky · Deer · 2026-27

This is every Kentucky 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.

Kentucky 2026-27 season

In the order they open

  • Sep 5 – Jan 18ArcheryStatewide
  • Sep 5 – Jan 18Youth/Senior CrossbowStatewide
  • Sep 19 – Jan 18CrossbowStatewide
  • Sep 25–28CWD Antlerless SeasonCWD Surveillance Zone, Zones 1-3Printed in 1 column — check which covers your county.
  • Oct 10–18Youth-only Modern FirearmsStatewide
  • Oct 17–18Early MuzzleloaderZones 1-3Printed in 2 columns — check which covers your county.
  • Oct 17–18Early MuzzleloaderZone 4Printed in 2 columns — check which covers your county.
  • Nov 14–29Modern FirearmsZones 1-3Printed in 2 columns — check which covers your county.
  • Nov 14–29Modern FirearmsZone 4Printed in 2 columns — check which covers your county.
  • Dec 12–20Late MuzzleloaderZones 1-3Printed in 2 columns — check which covers your county.
  • Dec 12–20Late MuzzleloaderZone 4Printed in 2 columns — check which covers your county.
  • Dec 26–27Free Youth WeekendStatewide

Transcribed from the published 2026-27 Kentucky digest. Where this app and the digest disagree, the digest is the law. Read the Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources digest.

Kentucky deer seasons, 2026-27

Kentucky’s 2026-27 deer seasons run September 5, 2026 to January 18, 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 Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources digest. It is a planning aid, not the law: check the digest before you hunt.

Every screen for Kentucky

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