Only one antlered deer may be taken during the 2026-27 season, statewide, regardless of where or how it is taken. An antlered deer has at least one antler three inches or longer. The county bag limit is a limit on deer, not on bucks: two, three or four depending on the county and six inside the disease surveillance area, with a statewide cap of six that a hunter may reach by combining county harvests. No more than two antlerless deer may be taken from all public hunting areas combined in a licence year. Regulations, pp. 6-7.
You
What you pay, and in several states what you are even offered.
Residency
Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of 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.
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Nothing in your wallet yet
Tick what you hold and the calendar starts answering for you rather than for everybody. Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife sells them at the link below.
Prices are what the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife printed for 2026-27, and are here to help you recognise a tag rather than to sell you one.
Ohio deer seasons, 2026-27
Ohio’s 2026-27 deer seasons run September 12, 2026 to February 7, 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 Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife digest. It is a planning aid, not the law: check the digest before you hunt.
Every screen for Ohio
Today in Ohio — 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 Ohio — Drop a pin and see the unit, the public land and the property lines under it.
Weather in Ohio — Wind, temperature and the scent cone over your ground, hour by hour, for the days you can still choose between.
Calendar in Ohio — Every day your tags are good for in your unit, from opening day to the end of the season.
Rut in Ohio — When the rut runs where you hunt, and which week is worth taking off.
Rules in Ohio — The legal arms, bag limits, antler restrictions and shooting hours that apply at your pin.
Tags in Ohio — 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.