Five antlered bucks a season for a resident and four for a non-resident, using personal tags — and in each case two of them must have at least four points on one antler or a twelve-inch inside antler spread. The daily limit is two, antlered or antlerless. A property enrolled in the Deer Quota Program is capped by property rather than by hunter. Guide, printed pp. 57 and 59.
You
What you pay, and in several states what you are even offered.
Residency
South Carolina Department of Natural 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.
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Nothing in your wallet yet
Tick what you hold and the calendar starts answering for you rather than for everybody. South Carolina Department of Natural Resources sells them at the link below.
Prices are what the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources printed for 2026-27, and are here to help you recognise a tag rather than to sell you one.
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
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.