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Alabama
Alabama public lookup includes all 32 current WMA permit entries, all 12 current limited-quota deer SOAs, all 18 deer PDHAs with schedules in the current 2026-27 map packet, and both 2026-27 State Park SPSOAs.
836season records
93listed areas
How hunting is organized
Management zones and units · Named hunt areas · State hunting areas
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Alaska
All 34 exact or conservative 2026-2027 Alaska deer rows now have direct map answers by GMU, residency and named hunt area.
34season records
21listed areas
How hunting is organized
Management zones and units · Named hunt areas · State hunting areas
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Archery
Firearm
Youth
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Arizona
Arizona deer hunting uses nonpermit archery windows plus draw permit-tag hunts by hunt number, GMU, species and official notes. Field Honest maps official AZGFD 2026 draw hunt-number rows and specific OTC archery GMU rows where the official table lists a GMU; live harvest-limit closures still control OTC availability.
209season records
66listed areas
How hunting is organized
Management zones and units · Named hunt areas
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Firearm
Youth
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Muzzleloader
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Arkansas
Arkansas combines official deer zones, exact county-by-zone CWD geography and complete current 2026-27 AGFC WMA schedules. All 725 WMA deer windows now have direct map answers across 137 season polygons; five additional polygons return explicit deer or no-hunting closures.
743season records
141listed areas
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Management zones and units · Named hunt areas
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California
California's official 2026 deer-zone, area-specific archery and additional-hunt tables are mapped to official CDFW polygons with exact date windows, tag codes and published quotas.
141season records
116listed areas
How hunting is organized
Management zones and units · State hunting areas
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Youth
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Colorado
Colorado's official 2026 deer hunt-code table is mapped to all 186 GMUs, exact named special areas, official private-surface/RFW intersections, two USGS-derived 11,000-foot zones and a conservative GMU 84 described private-land subarea.
1121season records
258listed areas
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Connecticut
Connecticut includes all 14 current 2026 deer lottery areas with exact dates, quotas and permit gates; nine are mapped to official CT DEEP polygons and five cooperating-property blocks remain source detail because the agency polygon service omits them.
29season records
26listed areas
How hunting is organized
Management zones and units · Named hunt areas · State hunting areas
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Firearm
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Delaware
Delaware retains complete statewide deer-season answers across 18 official WMZs and now adds 31 current official public-access parent boundaries as explicitly conditional map choices; three named areas remain source detail because no authoritative parent match was found.
47season records
36listed areas
How hunting is organized
Statewide rules · Management zones and units · State hunting areas
Archery
Crossbow
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Youth
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Florida
Florida preserves 32 outside-WMA zone/DMU records and maps 156 official FWC brochure areas to 966 exact 2026-27 deer date rows.
998season records
165listed areas
How hunting is organized
Management zones and units · Named hunt areas
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Georgia
Georgia private-land deer dates are organized through a color-coded county map, with either-sex days changing inside the firearms season. Fulton GA Hwy 92 and Forsyth GA Hwy 20 split-county lookup areas now filter directly from the official 2026-2027 Georgia regulations; WMA and public-land schedules remain official-source details.
627season records
182listed areas
How hunting is organized
State hunting areas · Counties and local areas · Named hunt areas
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Hawaii
Hawaii deer opportunities are modeled only where DLNR/Go Hunt Hawaii publishes specific public hunt dates and units. The 2026 Lānaʻi axis deer public hunt rows are mapped to Lānaʻi Units 1, 2 and 3.
17season records
2listed areas
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Named hunt areas
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Idaho
Idaho's official 2026 deer Hunt Planner combines all 100 GMUs, 28 exact hunt-area overlays, official private-surface answers for Units 30A and 50, and conservative private-agricultural proximity answers for Units 1, 2, 3 and 5; 5 narrower Unit 1 ridge rows remain source detail.
682season records
137listed areas
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Management zones and units
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Illinois
Illinois combines split archery windows, two firearm seasons and county-based Late Winter and CWD programs.
12season records
6listed areas
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Counties and local areas · Permit and license areas
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Indiana
Indiana combines statewide core seasons with 32 exact named 2026-27 Deer Reduction Zones/corridors mapped through 33 official DNR polygons. Each mapped DRZ separates the archery and firearms-equipment windows; Porter County is suspended.
69season records
34listed areas
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Management zones and units · Statewide rules
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Iowa
Iowa has statewide deer date windows, but resident Zone A/Zone B licenses, county quotas, Zone B harvest rules and first-regular-gun county restrictions control what a hunter can actually use.
11season records
6listed areas
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Statewide rules · Permit and license areas · Counties and local areas
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Kansas
Kansas deer seasons are driven by KDWP deer management units, permit rules, and special military-property subunits.
16season records
11listed areas
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Statewide rules · Management zones and units
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Kentucky
Kentucky deer seasons are mapped by current 2026/27 county Deer Zone 1-4 assignments; 23 exact counties also surface CWD restrictions and eligible Zone 1-3 counties include the special antlerless season.
30season records
5listed areas
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Louisiana
Louisiana deer seasons are mapped to the current official LDWF Deer Management Areas, precise searchable parish-area intersections, current CWD Management Zones, and selected exact WMA/refuge rules.
265season records
62listed areas
How hunting is organized
State hunting areas · Management zones and units · Named hunt areas
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Muzzleloader
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Maine
Maine combines statewide/WMD seasons with ten exact named 2026 expanded-archery areas: eight official MDIFW polygons and two coastal-island written-boundary-only areas that the agency omits from its interactive GIS map.
17season records
13listed areas
How hunting is organized
Named hunt areas · State hunting areas
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Maryland
Maryland now excludes Sunday from broad season rows and restores only the exact 2026-27 county/Region A-B Sunday dates, land classes and hours; three current managed-deer programs are inventoried behind their application and assignment gates.
371season records
33listed areas
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Statewide rules · Hunting regions · Counties and local areas
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts combines statewide WMZ seasons, exact permit-conditioned 2026 Blue Hills and Quabbin polygons, and all six current 2026 Camp Edwards controlled deer events as source detail because daily legal sections are issued at check-in.
33season records
10listed areas
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Management zones and units · Statewide rules · Named hunt areas
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Michigan
All 101 current DNR DMUs remain represented; DMU 273 now uses 30 exact reserved-hunt periods and five current positive/negative subunit overlays instead of broad statewide windows.
783season records
112listed areas
How hunting is organized
Management zones and units · State hunting areas
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Minnesota
Minnesota now maps all 130 current 2026-27 Deer Permit Areas to 564 exact method/date records with each DPA's current management designation, lottery allocation and special/CWD conditions.
573season records
137listed areas
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Management zones and units · Permit and license areas
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Mississippi
Mississippi deer seasons are mapped to current official MDWFP Deer Management Units, exact county-unit intersections, current CWD Management Zones and selected WMA subareas.
323season records
59listed areas
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Management zones and units · Named hunt areas
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Missouri
Statewide/county seasons plus all 141 current managed-deer rows; 61 rows map to 26 exact MDC/FWS answer features and 80 narrower/partner hunts remain source detail.
149season records
78listed areas
How hunting is organized
Statewide rules · Counties and local areas · State hunting areas
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Montana
Montana deer seasons are modeled from the official FWP 2026 Deer, Elk and Antelope district table by hunting district, license/permit, opportunity and date window.
1931season records
138listed areas
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Management zones and units
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Nebraska
Nebraska deer pages use official deer management-unit and River Antlerless unit geometry. The principal 2026-2027 date windows are modeled as final official windows, while issued permits, species/sex authorization, unit restrictions and land access still control a hunter's actual opportunity.
9season records
6listed areas
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Nevada
Nevada mule deer seasons are tied to hunt categories, unit groups, tags, quotas and draw results. Resident/nonresident antlered, resident junior and nonresident restricted-guided unit-group rows are normalized.
330season records
47listed areas
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Youth
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New Hampshire
New Hampshire now maps all 20 official WMUs to 113 exact 2026 archery, youth, muzzleloader and firearm segments, separating any-deer from antlered-only days and retaining current Unit L/M permit conditions.
119season records
22listed areas
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Management zones and units · Statewide rules
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New Jersey
New Jersey deer seasons are organized by Deer Management Zone regulation sets, with verified special-area rules for zones 39, 54, 61, 64, 66, 67, 68 and 71.
91season records
12listed areas
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Management zones and units · Named hunt areas
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New Mexico
New Mexico deer opportunity is hunt-code, GMU, draw/private-land and weapon specific. Whole-GMU 2026-2027 hunt-code rows are normalized for map filtering; sub-GMU private-land, WMA, range and special-area rows remain official-source details.
356season records
112listed areas
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Management zones and units · Named hunt areas
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New York
New York separates deer seasons by Northern and Southern Zones, selected WMUs, and special Westchester and Suffolk County schedules.
20season records
8listed areas
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North Carolina
North Carolina includes 581 safely mapped Permit Hunt Book opportunities on 55 exact areas plus seven exact September 26 youth blanket-permit zone records; unresolved areas remain deferred.
1326season records
213listed areas
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Counties and local areas · Named hunt areas · State hunting areas
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North Dakota
All 38 units retain exact 2026 mapping; six prior exception overlays plus 408 exact current NDGF WMA answer parts now support direct lookup.
142season records
61listed areas
How hunting is organized
Statewide rules · Management zones and units · State hunting areas
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Ohio
All 88 counties and 13 partial-township DSA overlays retain exact season/bag mapping; 339 current ODNR Wildlife/Hunting Area source features now add bait and conditional antlerless controls through 343 exact answer parts.
526season records
104listed areas
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Counties and local areas · State hunting areas · Named hunt areas
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma has statewide archery/youth deer windows plus antlerless-zone-specific muzzleloader, deer gun and holiday antlerless opportunities.
32season records
11listed areas
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Statewide rules · Management zones and units
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Oregon
Oregon has western general deer seasons and eastern controlled deer hunt areas. Field Honest now maps ODFW 2026 controlled rifle, bow, muzzleloader, youth buck and antlerless hunt-area polygons to exact date rows.
176season records
175listed areas
How hunting is organized
Hunting regions · State hunting areas
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania now uses the current direct PGC 22-WMU geometry, removes retired WMU 2H into 2G, and maps 139 exact 2026-27 deer records with each WMU's approved antlerless allocation.
149season records
25listed areas
How hunting is organized
Management zones and units · Statewide rules
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Rhode Island
Rhode Island includes all 92 deer-eligible public-property rows as conditioned records; 87 properties are now joined to 90 reviewed official boundary parts and five remain source detail without an invented map answer.
512season records
100listed areas
How hunting is organized
Management zones and units · Named hunt areas
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South Carolina
South Carolina is modeled for private lands by Game Zone and selected public WMA deer openings where exact SCDNR property/tract polygons and clear WMA season rows are available.
141season records
67listed areas
How hunting is organized
Management zones and units · Named hunt areas
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South Dakota
South Dakota includes final 2026 GFP framework dates, the combined main deer-unit lookup, and 12 named municipal archery area/program records for Rapid City, Sioux Falls and Custer. Municipal raster maps and assigned permits/sessions remain source details rather than invented map answers.
25season records
25listed areas
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Permit and license areas · Named hunt areas · Management zones and units
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Tennessee
Tennessee deer seasons are mapped by county Deer Management Unit and an expanding set of exact public-land rules, closures and special hunt windows.
170season records
27listed areas
How hunting is organized
Management zones and units · Named hunt areas
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Texas
Texas now maps all 252 open white-tailed-deer counties as 261 exact current county or road-split zones, with every published method/date row, bag limit, antler restriction, antlerless rule, reporting duty and other county-page condition preserved.
1240season records
261listed areas
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Utah
Utah's 2026 deer date windows are modeled as final official windows for general, extended archery, restricted-weapons and late limited-entry muzzleloader rows; actual availability remains controlled by the hunter's permit, hunt number, unit and current DWR rules.
9season records
6listed areas
How hunting is organized
Permit and license areas · State hunting areas · Management zones and units
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Vermont
Vermont combines statewide/WMU seasons with eight exact named 2026 Expanded Archery Zones mapped through official ANR polygons; Sept. 15-30 is antlerless deer only.
14season records
14listed areas
How hunting is organized
Named hunt areas · Management zones and units · Statewide rules
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Virginia
Virginia maps every county, independent city and incorporated town, three exact route-split localities and 90 named public-land overlays to 2,593 current 2026-27 deer rows.
2593season records
445listed areas
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State hunting areas · Counties and local areas · Named hunt areas
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Washington
Washington deer seasons are modeled from WDFW 2026 Deer General Seasons tables by method, deer species, legal deer class, GMU, selected official Deer Areas and mapped high-buck named areas.
57season records
27listed areas
How hunting is organized
State hunting areas · Management zones and units
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West Virginia
West Virginia deer seasons are mapped by county, including the Wayne County route split; eight eastern counties also surface current CWD rules with Pendleton's narrower baiting-only scope preserved.
22season records
7listed areas
How hunting is organized
Statewide rules · Counties and local areas
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Wisconsin
Wisconsin now maps all 94 regular DMU areas and 17 metro sub-units to exact 2026 season dates, final season-structure categories, 305,005 quota goals and the reconciled 272,720 bonus-authorization issuance.
1016season records
277listed areas
How hunting is organized
Management zones and units · Named hunt areas · Statewide rules
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Wyoming
Wyoming deer seasons are modeled from WGFD Chapter 6 by hunt area, license type, special archery window, regular season dates, quota and limitation text.
540season records
148listed areas
How hunting is organized
State hunting areas
Archery
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District of Columbia
Washington, DC is unsupported by the deer-season calendar and retained only as a map jurisdiction.
This state is listed so coming-soon states cannot be mistaken for verified season data.