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Antlerless deer harvest authorization availability 2025

Customers interested in purchasing a deer hunting license can do so now through their Go Wild account or a licensed agent.

Bonus antlerless harvest authorizations

Beginning Aug. 18, 2025, bonus antlerless harvest authorizations will be available.

Available Bonus Antlerless Deer Harvest Authorizations, may be purchased by:

Sales begin at 10 a.m. each day.

  • Aug. 18-Forest Zones (Northern and Central)
  • Aug. 19-Central Farmland Zone
  • Aug. 20-Southern Farmland Zone
  • Aug. 21-All zones are 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 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.

Check out the Deer Hunting webpage for more information on hunting deer in Wisconsin. The DMU tab has some great information, as well as a clean map of the Deer Management Units (DMUs) for 2025. The page also has the same DMU map with all county lines shown, if that helps you better identify your DMU.

Tribal deer management units (Lac Courte Oreilles, Red Cliff, Bad River, Lac du Flambeau and Menominee) are non-quota units and are not open to non-tribal antlerless harvest. No harvest authorizations are issued by the DNR in these units. Ft McCoy permits are issued directly through Ft McCoy and not the DNR, please contact their office for additional information.

NOTE: The below chart is a live feed, within 15 minutes, of the permits levels that are on sale and the permit levels that remain.  You must refresh the page to see the updated values.