HuntingRulebook

Minnesota · Deer · 2026-27

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

Minnesota 2026-27 season

In the order they open

  • Sep 19 – Dec 31ArcheryBucks-only areasPrinted in 2 columns — check which covers your deer permit area.
  • Sep 19 – Dec 31ArcheryAll other permit areasPrinted in 2 columns — check which covers your deer permit area.
  • Oct 15–18Youth SeasonBucks-only areasPrinted in 2 columns — check which covers your deer permit area.
  • Oct 15–18Youth SeasonAll other permit areasPrinted in 2 columns — check which covers your deer permit area.
  • Oct 15–18Early Antlerless SeasonOpen permit areasPrinted in 1 column — check which covers your deer permit area.
  • Nov 7–22Firearms A SeasonBucks-only and antlerless permit lottery areasPrinted in 2 columns — check which covers your deer permit area.
  • Nov 7–22Firearms A SeasonEither-sex, 2-, 3- and 5-deer areasPrinted in 2 columns — check which covers your deer permit area.
  • Nov 7–15Firearms B SeasonBucks-only and antlerless permit lottery areasPrinted in 2 columns — check which covers your deer permit area.
  • Nov 7–15Firearms B SeasonEither-sex, 2-, 3- and 5-deer areasPrinted in 2 columns — check which covers your deer permit area.
  • Nov 7–29Metro Management Zone FirearmsMetro management zone DPA 601Printed in 1 column — check which covers your deer permit area.
  • Nov 21–29Late Southeast FirearmsLate southeast permit areasPrinted in 1 column — check which covers your deer permit area.
  • Nov 28 – Dec 13MuzzleloaderBucks-only and antlerless permit lottery areasPrinted in 2 columns — check which covers your deer permit area.
  • Nov 28 – Dec 13MuzzleloaderEither-sex, 2-, 3- and 5-deer areasPrinted in 2 columns — check which covers your deer permit area.
  • Dec 18–20Late CWD SeasonLate CWD permit areasPrinted in 1 column — check which covers your deer permit area.

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

Minnesota deer seasons, 2026-27

Minnesota’s 2026-27 deer seasons run September 19, 2026 to December 31, 2026, and what is open on a given day depends on the deer permit area your stand is in. Drop a pin above and this app reads the deer permit area 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 Minnesota Department of Natural Resources digest. It is a planning aid, not the law: check the digest before you hunt.

Every screen for Minnesota

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