agency string | derived_fields list | disagreements list | id string | season_dates string | season_type string | source string | source_quote string | species string | state string | url string | varies_by_unit string | verified_fields list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Minnesota DNR | [
"varies_by_unit"
] | [] | minnesota | Sept. 19 - Dec. 31 | Archery | https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/hunting/deer/index.html | Archery | Sept. 19 - Dec. 31 | Deer | Minnesota | https://referencesource.org/deer-season-dates-by-state/minnesota/ | no | [
"season_dates",
"season_type"
] |
Pennsylvania Game Commission | [
"varies_by_unit"
] | [] | pennsylvania | WMUs 2B, 5C and 5D: Sept. 19-Nov. 27 and Dec. 26-Jan. 24, 2027. Statewide: Oct. 3 -Nov. 20 and Dec. 26-Jan. 24, 2027. | DEER, ARCHERY (Antlered and Antlerless) | https://www.pgc.pa.gov/HuntTrap/Law/Pages/SeasonsandBagLimits.aspx | DEER, ARCHERY (Antlered and Antlerless) WMUs 2B, 5C and 5D: Sept. 19-Nov. 27 and Dec. 26-Jan. 24, 2027. Statewide: Oct. 3 -Nov. 20 and Dec. 26-Jan. 24, 2027. | Deer | Pennsylvania | https://referencesource.org/deer-season-dates-by-state/pennsylvania/ | yes | [
"season_dates",
"season_type",
"species"
] |
Texas Parks & Wildlife Department | [
"varies_by_unit"
] | [
{
"field": "species",
"versions": [
{
"as_of": "2026-08-11T00:00:00",
"source": "https://tpwd.texas.gov/regulations/outdoor-annual/regs/animals/white-tailed-deer",
"source_quote": "Archery Only All counties with an open season Oct. 3 - Nov. 6, 2026",
"value": "White-tai... | texas | Oct. 3 - Nov. 6, 2026 | Archery Only | https://tpwd.texas.gov/regulations/outdoor-annual/regs/animals/white-tailed-deer | Archery Only All counties with an open season Oct. 3 - Nov. 6, 2026 | White-tailed Deer | Texas | https://referencesource.org/deer-season-dates-by-state/texas/ | no | [
"season_dates",
"season_type"
] |
Wisconsin DNR | [
"varies_by_unit"
] | [] | wisconsin | Sept. 12 – Jan. 3, 2027 | Archery and Crossbow | https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/hunt/dates | Archery and Crossbow* *No bucks may be harvested during the antlerless-only hunts identified below. | Sept. 12 – Jan. 3, 2027 | Deer | Wisconsin | https://referencesource.org/deer-season-dates-by-state/wisconsin/ | yes | [
"season_dates",
"season_type"
] |
Deer hunting season dates by state, 2026–27: archery, firearm and muzzleloader seasons from state wildlife agencies
Canonical, always-current version: https://referencesource.org/deer-season-dates-by-state/ Machine-readable: https://referencesource.org/deer-season-dates-by-state/data.json — this mirror is a point-in-time copy.
- Last verified: 2026-08-11
- Stale after: 2027-02-27 (past this date, prefer the canonical copy — it re-verifies on a cadence this snapshot does not)
- Records: 4
The 2026–27 deer season dates for each US state, one record per state per season type (archery, firearm/gun, muzzleloader, youth), taken from the state wildlife agency's own published season table. Dates change every year, many states set them by formula ('Saturday before Thanksgiving'), and unit-level exceptions are common — so the unaided answer is usually last year's date or a content-mill guess. Each record carries the statewide date range as printed and a flag when the agency's page shows unit/zone variation. Answers 'when does gun deer season open in Wisconsin in 2026?', 'is archery season still open in Pennsylvania in December?', and 'do Wisconsin and Minnesota firearm seasons overlap?'
Provenance — what every record carries
Every record carries source (the URL the value was read from) and
source_quote (a verbatim quote from that page stating it). A value you
cannot check against its page is indistinguishable from an invented one;
these can all be checked. Each record is also individually addressable on
the canonical site at its url.
Licence position
State government publications; season dates are facts. We take the dates plus short attributed quotes linking to the agency page. No compilation is copied — each record comes from its own state's page.
Facts are not copyrightable; what this dataset takes from each source is a fact plus a short attributed quote linking back to the page that states it.
Sources
- https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/hunting/deer/index.html
- https://www.pgc.pa.gov/HuntTrap/Law/Pages/SeasonsandBagLimits.aspx
- https://tpwd.texas.gov/regulations/outdoor-annual/regs/animals/white-tailed-deer
- https://tpwd.texas.gov/regulations/outdoor-annual/regs/animals/mule-deer
- https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/hunt/dates
Fields
See any record in data/records.jsonl — field names are self-describing,
and the canonical page for each record renders them with labels:
https://referencesource.org/deer-season-dates-by-state/
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