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Alabama Hunting License Cost: $34.35 and Up

Alabama prints the tags on the licence rather than selling them separately

$34.35
Resident licence
All Game
Nothing
What the tags add
one of 11 states printing the tags on the licence
a fixed licence year
When it stops working
licence year
8 / 4
Licences and tags read here
each one linked to the fee table it came from
The short answer

What a season in Alabama actually costs to start

Tags includedAlabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries

A resident hunting licence in Alabama is $34.35, sold as the All Game. Alabama is one of eleven in this reading where the tags come with the licence rather than on top of it, which makes the price on the fee page the price of the hunt. 39 of the 50 states are built the other way, and in those the licence is the smaller half. Alabama is one of the states where the licence itself covers the big game, an All Game licence taking in deer and turkey with no tag to buy, though hunting over bait, hunting swine or coyote at night, waterfowl and public management areas each cost extra, and every licence stops on 31 August whatever month it was bought.

  • Resident licence $34.35, the All Game
  • Nonresident licence $399.50
  • First deer on top of it $18.45, the Baiting Privilege
  • The licence runs runs a licence year with its own start and end dates, set by the state rather than by the calendar
  • Hunter education required of anyone born on or after 1977

Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries sells it through its own licensing system, which is where a fee change appears first.

What the agency sells

Every Alabama hunting licence, at the price Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries prints

Everything an Alabama licence holder needs for the species it names is in the licence itself. That is unusual: 39 of the 50 states read here sell the animal separately from the right to hunt it, and Alabama, Arkansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont and West Virginia do not.

  • Small Game$22.75

    every species a licence is sold for apart from deer and turkey

    annual

    Small Game - (All species - excluding deer and/or turkey) - $22.75
    Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
  • All Game$34.35

    every species a licence is sold for, deer and turkey included

    annual

    All Game - (All species - including deer and/or turkey) - $34.35
    Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
  • Small Game$130.25

    every species a licence is sold for apart from deer and turkey

    Annual

    Small Game (All species - excluding deer and/or turkey) Annual - $130.25
    Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
  • All Game$399.50

    every species a licence is sold for, deer and turkey included

    Annual

    All Game (All species - including deer and/or turkey) Annual - $399.50
    Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
  • Small Game 3-Day Trip$57.40

    every species a licence is sold for apart from deer and turkey, over a three day trip

    3-Day Trip

    Small Game (All species - excluding deer and/or turkey) Annual - $130.25 10-Day Trip - $79.35 3-Day Trip- $57.40
    Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
  • All Game 10-Day Trip$246.60

    every species a licence is sold for, deer and turkey included, over a ten day trip

    10-Day Trip

    All Game (All species - including deer and/or turkey) Annual - $399.50 10-Day Trip - $246.60 3-Day Trip- $173.90
    Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
  • 50% Disabled Military Veterans Appreciation Hunting$17.70

    hunting for a resident veteran at fifty per cent disability, issued at probate, Montgomery or district offices

    annual

    DISABLED HUNTING LICENSES (available at probate offices, Montgomery or District Offices) ... 50% Disabled Military Veterans Appreciation Hunting - $17.70
    Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
  • Optional Senior Lifetime Hunting, Freshwater and Saltwater Fishing$35.00

    hunting and fishing for life, taken up by residents already past the age the state exempts

    lifetime

    LIFETIME LICENSES (youth licenses under 16 years of age available at probate offices, Montgomery or District Offices) ... Optional Senior Lifetime Hunting, Freshwater and Saltwater Fishing - $35.00
    Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
The second purchase

The tags Alabama covers, and the few it still prices separately

A tag is attached to one animal of one species, and the last column is the part that decides a calendar rather than a budget. Over the counter means it can be bought on the way to the woods. A draw means the application closed months ago.

Nothing in the Alabama fee pages read here is allocated by a draw, so the tags below are bought rather than applied for. 35 of the 50 states run a draw for at least one species, which puts the decision months ahead of the hunt.

Tags and permits read off Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries's own fee pages, dearest resident price first.
Tag or permitSpeciesResidentNonresidentHow it is issued
Federal Duck StampWaterfowl$30.00$30.00Over the counter
Baiting PrivilegeDeer$18.45$63.40Over the counter
Nighttime Feral Swine & Coyote Hunting LicenseOther$18.00$61.65Over the counter
State Duck StampWaterfowl$12.10$12.10Over the counter

Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries, the page this was read from, read 23 September 2026

The clock

When a Alabama hunting license expires Licence year

Alabama runs a licence year with its own start and end dates, set by the state rather than by the calendar. The year turns on a date the state picked, usually in the spring or early autumn, so what a licence is worth depends on where in that year it was bought. The sentence the state uses is quoted below and links to the page it came from.

Every Alabama recreational licence runs to 31 August whatever day of the year it was bought, so a licence bought in August is worth days and one bought in September is worth a season.

All Recreational Licenses Expire Annually on August 31 Annually.
Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
The requirement people find out about at the counter

Alabama hunter education: born on or after 1977

Alabama hangs hunter education on a birth date rather than on an age: the requirement reaches anybody born after 1977. Every state that publishes a cutoff publishes a different one, and across this reading they run from 1949 to 1986, which is why a national answer to this question is always wrong somewhere.

Alabama requires the course of anyone born on or after 1 August 1977 before a licence is sold, and offers a supervision required licence instead for those who have not taken it.

If you were born on or after August 1, 1977, you must complete an approved hunter education program before purchasing a license. Hunter education is offered as early as 10 years of age but is not required until license buying age of 16.
Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
A wide shallow wetland on a clear November morning, ducks scattered across the open water, a cottonwood in yellow leaf on a small island beside a low wooden viewing deck, and a flat brown horizon under a pale blue sky
Waterfowl is the clearest case of what these pages are about. The state licence is the first line on the receipt, and a duck morning adds a state stamp, a federal stamp and a harvest survey registration on top of it, none of which the licence price includes. “Llano Seco Unit (2024)-L1006548”, Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0
Which price applies

Who counts as a Alabama resident

Alabama defines a resident in its own words rather than by a count of days, and the definition is quoted below because the price on one side of it is rarely close to the price on the other.

Residency by Law is Defined by Driver's License ... Bona Fide Alabama Residents must present an Alabama driver's license or non-driver's ID to any local license agent. Or, in the case of Bona Fide residents with no driver's license or non-driver's ID, those residents must go to their local probate office or license commissioner with proofs of residency.
Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
How Alabama compares

39 of 50 states sell the animal separately from the right to hunt it

Alabama is one of 11 states in this reading that print the tags on the licence, which is why its fee page price is the price of the hunt. In the other 39, the licence is the first of two purchases and the number a search result shows is the smaller half.

Resident licences across these states run from $10 to $64.54, and nonresident licences from $50 to $410, which is the widest spread on any licence this site has read. 25 states run a licence year of their own, 9 give a full year from the day of sale, and 9 end it on 31 December whatever month it was bought.

The national table puts Alabama beside every other state on licence price, first tag, and the two added together.

Alabama hunting license questions

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Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries read 23 September 2026, with every licence price, tag price, expiry rule and hunter education cutoff above linked to the page it came from. Fees are set by statute or by a commission and change between seasons, so the agency page beside each figure is what governs on the day. Tags included