HuntingRulebook

South Carolina · Deer · 2026-27

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

South Carolina 2026-27 season

In the order they open

  • Aug 8Youth Deer Hunt Day, EarlyGame Zones 3 and 4Printed in 3 columns — check which covers your game zone.
  • Aug 15–31Archery OnlyGame Zone 4Printed in 2 columns — check which covers your game zone.
  • Aug 15 – Jan 1Gun HuntsGame Zone 3Printed in 3 columns — check which covers your game zone.
  • Sep 1 – Jan 1Gun HuntsGame Zone 4Printed in 3 columns — check which covers your game zone.
  • Sep 12Youth Deer Hunt Day, EarlyGame Zone 2Printed in 3 columns — check which covers your game zone.
  • Sep 15–30Archery OnlyGame Zone 2Printed in 2 columns — check which covers your game zone.
  • Sep 26Youth Deer Hunt Day, EarlyGame Zone 1Printed in 3 columns — check which covers your game zone.
  • Oct 1–10Primitive WeaponsGame Zones 1 and 2Printed in 1 column — check which covers your game zone.
  • Oct 11 – Jan 1Gun HuntsGame Zones 1 and 2Printed in 3 columns — check which covers your game zone.
  • Jan 2Youth Deer Hunt Day, LateStatewide

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

South Carolina deer seasons, 2026-27

South Carolina’s 2026-27 deer seasons run August 8, 2026 to January 2, 2027, and what is open on a given day depends on the game zone your stand is in. Drop a pin above and this app reads the game zone 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 South Carolina Department of Natural Resources digest. It is a planning aid, not the law: check the digest before you hunt.

Every screen for South Carolina

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