Bonus antlerless harvest authorizations

Beginning August 13, 2018, bonus antlerless harvest authorizations will be available for purchase.

Sales begin at 10 a.m. each day.

• August 13-Forest Zones (Northern and Central)
• August 14-Central Farmland Zone
• August 15-Southern Farmland Zone
• August 16-All zones available. Harvest Authorizations can be purchased until sold out or the season ends.

Bonus harvest authorizations are $5.00 for any person under age 12, $12.00 for residents and $20.00 for nonresidents.

Where available, bonus antlerless harvest authorizations may be purchased at the rate of one harvest authorization, per person, per day until the unit is sold out or the hunting season ends. Although harvest authorizations will not be weapon or season specific, they will be unit and land-type (public or private) specific. At purchase, you will be asked to identify the deer management zone and unit and whether you want the harvest authorization to be valid for public or private lands. In order to hunt antlerless deer on private lands enrolled in the Managed Forest Law and Forest Crop Law lands programs designated as open to public hunting as well as Voluntary Public Access lands, you must have a valid public land antlerless harvest authorization.

• 2018 Deer season structure and management zones [PDF]
• 2018 Farmland (Zone 2) Antlerless Deer Harvest Authorization Availability [PDF]
• 2018 Antlerless-only Holiday Hunt [PDF]
• 2018 Extended Archery and Crossbow Season [PDF]
• 2018 Metro sub-unit antlerless harvest authorization information

Bonus Antlerless Deer Carcass Harvest Authorization Availability

This is a list of the counties that have bonus anterless harvest authorizations available and the number still remaining. The following DMUs do not have bonus antlerless harvest authorizations available: Iron, Kenosha, Racine and Sheboygan.

The following Metro subunits do not have bonus antlerless harvest authorizations available: Dane, Kenosha, La Crosse, Manitowoc, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Rock, Washington and Waukesha.

Antlerless Deer Carcass Harvest Authorizations By Unit

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources  |  101 S. Webster Street . PO Box 7921  |  Madison, Wisconsin 53707-7921

Call 1-888-936-7463 (TTY Access via relay - 711) from 7 a.m. - 10 p.m.

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