One antlered deer a year, full stop. Additional deer come only from antlerless deer permits — drawn by lottery, valid in the WMD or subunit printed on them — or from expanded archery permits inside the designated areas. For 2026 a hunter may take one deer of either sex on the big game licence alone in WMDs 21-25 and 29 during the firearms and muzzleloader seasons, and statewide during the regular archery and youth seasons; that deer counts as their one deer for the year. Lawbook, printed pp. 4 and 20.
You
What you pay, and in several states what you are even offered.
Residency
Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife 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 wildlife management district, 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. Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife sells them at the link below.
Prices are what the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife printed for 2026-27, and are here to help you recognise a tag rather than to sell you one.
Maine deer seasons, 2026-27
Maine’s 2026-27 deer seasons run September 12, 2026 to December 12, 2026, and what is open on a given day depends on the wildlife management district your stand is in. Drop a pin above and this app reads the wildlife management district 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 Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife digest. It is a planning aid, not the law: check the digest before you hunt.
Every screen for Maine
Today in Maine — 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 Maine — Drop a pin and see the unit, the public land and the property lines under it.
Weather in Maine — Wind, temperature and the scent cone over your ground, hour by hour, for the days you can still choose between.
Calendar in Maine — Every day your tags are good for in your unit, from opening day to the end of the season.
Rut in Maine — When the rut runs where you hunt, and which week is worth taking off.
Rules in Maine — The legal arms, bag limits, antler restrictions and shooting hours that apply at your pin.
Tags in Maine — 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.