HuntingRulebook

Wisconsin · Deer · 2026-27

This is every Wisconsin 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 management unit, with your own tags marked against it.

Wisconsin 2026-27 season

In the order they open

  • Sep 12 – Jan 31Archery and CrossbowUnits with the Holiday Hunt and the extended archery seasonPrinted in 3 columns — check which covers your deer management unit.
  • Sep 12 – Jan 3Archery and CrossbowUnits with the Holiday Hunt onlyPrinted in 3 columns — check which covers your deer management unit.
  • Sep 12 – Jan 3Archery and CrossbowEverywhere elsePrinted in 3 columns — check which covers your deer management unit.
  • Oct 3–11Gun Deer Hunt for Hunters with DisabilitiesParticipating properties
  • Oct 10–11Youth Deer HuntStatewide
  • Nov 21–29Gun DeerStatewide
  • Nov 30 – Dec 9MuzzleloaderStatewide
  • Dec 10–13Statewide Antlerless-only HuntStatewide
  • Dec 24 – Jan 1Antlerless-only Holiday HuntParticipating Farmland Zone unitsPrinted in 1 column — check which covers your deer management unit.

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

Wisconsin deer seasons, 2026-27

Wisconsin’s 2026-27 deer seasons run September 12, 2026 to January 31, 2027, and what is open on a given day depends on the deer management unit your stand is in. Drop a pin above and this app reads the deer management unit 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 Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources digest. It is a planning aid, not the law: check the digest before you hunt.

Every screen for Wisconsin

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