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Kentucky · Deer · 2026-27

Deer tags

Kentucky · 2026-27

Tags held

0

resident prices

Spend

$0

at the printed fee schedule

Seasons covered

—

drop a pin first

Bucks taken

0 of 1

Only one antlered deer may be harvested statewide, regardless of zone or method. Male fawns whose button antlers are not readily visible count as antlerless. Guide pp. 10-11.

You

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

Residency

Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife 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.

Nothing in your wallet yet

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

Prices are what the Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources printed for 2026-27, and are here to help you recognise a tag rather than to sell you one.

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.