HuntingRulebook

Texas · Deer · 2026-27

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

Texas 2026-27 season

In the order they open

  • Oct 3 – Nov 6Archery OnlyEvery county with an open season
  • Oct 30 – Nov 1Early Youth-only SeasonEvery county with an open season
  • Nov 7 – Jan 17General SeasonSouth ZonePrinted in 2 columns — check which covers your county.
  • Nov 7 – Jan 3General SeasonNorth Zone and East of IH 35Printed in 2 columns — check which covers your county.
  • Jan 4–17Late Youth-only SeasonNorth Zone and East of IH 35Printed in 1 column — check which covers your county.
  • Jan 4–17MuzzleloaderCounties with a muzzleloader seasonPrinted in 1 column — check which covers your county.
  • Jan 4–17Special Late SeasonNorth Zone and East of IH 35Printed in 2 columns — check which covers your county.
  • Jan 18–31Special Late SeasonSouth ZonePrinted in 2 columns — check which covers your county.

Transcribed from the published 2026-27 Texas digest. Where this app and the digest disagree, the digest is the law. Read the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department digest.

Texas deer seasons, 2026-27

Texas’s 2026-27 deer seasons run October 3, 2026 to January 31, 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 Texas Parks and Wildlife Department digest. It is a planning aid, not the law: check the digest before you hunt.

Every screen for Texas

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