One buck per unused buck harvest authorisation, and each is good anywhere in the state. A gun deer licence carries a gun buck authorisation, an archery or crossbow licence a bow buck authorisation, and a hunter holding both may take two bucks — one by gun and one by bow. A bow buck authorisation may not be filled with a rifle even during the gun season. DNR, Licensing Requirements (Deer).
You
What you pay, and in several states what you are even offered.
Residency
Wisconsin 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 for a unit
Drop a pin first — these are sold per deer management unit, and the app will not guess which one you meant.
Nothing to tick here yet.
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Nothing in your wallet yet
Tick what you hold and the calendar starts answering for you rather than for everybody. Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources sells them at the link below.
Prices are what the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources printed for 2026-27, and are here to help you recognise a tag rather than to sell you one.
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
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.