Georgia Hunting License: $15, $40 With a Tag
In Georgia the licence is $15 and the first deer costs $40
What a season in Georgia actually costs to start
A resident hunting licence in Georgia is $15, sold as the Hunting License. Hunting a deer on it means buying the Big Game as well, at $25, so the first day costs $40 rather than $15. That is 167% more than the licence price a search result would have shown. 39 of the 50 states read here work the same way. The licence itself runs a licence 365 days from the day it was bought.
- Resident licence $15, the Hunting License
- Nonresident licence $100
- First deer on top of it $25, the Big Game
- What the first morning costs $40
- The licence runs runs a licence 365 days from the day it was bought
- Hunter education required of anyone born on or after 1961
Georgia Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Resources Division sells it through its own licensing system, which is where a fee change appears first.
Every Georgia hunting licence, at the price Georgia Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Resources Division prints
Eight tags and permits were read off Georgia Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Resources Division's own fee pages for Georgia, each one priced below with the row it sits in. A tag is a second purchase, and the licence price on its own is the first half of what a season costs.
- Hunting License$15
basic hunting privileges, not deer, bear or turkey
Annual
Hunting License: $15 annual | $5 for one-day & $1 for additional days. Residents age 16–64 may purchase a hunting license. This license covers basic hunting privileges . Completion of a qualifying hunter education course is required for Hunting Licenses of annual or longer duration.
Georgia Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Resources Division, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source - Hunting License$100
basic hunting privileges, not deer, bear or turkey
Annual
Hunting Licenses: $100 annual | $20 for one-day & $6 for additional days. Nonresidents 16 years of age or older may purchase a hunting license. This license covers basic hunting privileges .
Georgia Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Resources Division, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source - Hunting$20
basic hunting privileges for one day, extendable a day at a time
One-Day
Hunting (Resident: 16–64, Nonresident1: 16+) One-Day - $20 + Additional Day - $6
Georgia Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Resources Division, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source - Youth Sportsman's License (Optional)$15
the full sportsman privileges for a resident aged 15 or under, running to the seventeenth birthday
Multi-Year
Youth Sportsman's License (Optional): $15. Resident youth hunters age 15 and under can get a Youth Sportsman's License. The youth must complete hunter education in order to hunt without supervision or to hunt after their 16th birthday under this license. The multiyear license is effective until the youth's 17th birthday.
Georgia Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Resources Division, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source - Senior Sportsman's License$7
the full sportsman privileges at a discount from age 65
Annual
Senior Sportsman's License: $7. Sportsman's licenses are available to seniors born on or after July 1, 1952, at a discounted rate, in either lifetime ($70) or annual ($7) options.
Georgia Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Resources Division, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source - Combo Hunting & Fishing License$30
basic hunting and basic fishing, not deer, bear or turkey
Annual
Combo Hunting & Fishing License: $30 annual | $5 for one-day & $1 for additional days. Residents age 16–64 may purchase an annual combo hunting and fishing license. A Combo License combines basic hunting and basic fishing privileges.
Georgia Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Resources Division, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source - Sportsman's License$65
all state paid hunting and fishing privileges including big game, apart from the alligator permit
Annual
Sportsman's License: $65 annual | $25 for one-day & $3 for additional days. Resident hunters age 16–64 may purchase a Sportsman's License. A Sportsman's License provides all state paid hunting and fishing privileges (some free licenses may be required (see below), with the exception of the paid Alligator Harvest Permit. Hunting, Big Game, GA Waterfowl Migratory Bird License, Trout, and Salt and Freshwater Fishing privileges are included.
Georgia Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Resources Division, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source - Apprentice Hunting & Fishing$5
one day of hunting and fishing without the hunter education course, for a resident aged 16 or over
One-Day
Apprentice Hunting & Fishing One-Day $5 $30
Georgia Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Resources Division, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source - Adult Lifetime Sportsman's$750
the full sportsman privileges for life, bought between ages 16 and 49
Lifetime
Adult Lifetime Sportsman's 16–49 $750
Georgia Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Resources Division, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
When a Georgia hunting license expires 365 days
Georgia runs a licence 365 days from the day it was bought, so the month it was bought in makes no difference to what it is worth. 9 of the 50 states read here run instead to 31 December, where a November purchase is a purchase with weeks left in it.
A Georgia annual licence runs 365 days from the day it is bought, and several can be stacked back to back, while the migratory bird stamp runs to a fixed season instead.
Annual Licenses cover the 365 days after date of purchase and may be stacked to create a license of any year duration.Georgia Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Resources Division, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
Georgia hunter education: born on or after 1961
Georgia hangs hunter education on a birth date rather than on an age: the requirement reaches anybody born after 1961. 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.
Georgia requires the hunter education course of residents and nonresidents born on or after 1 January 1961 before a season hunting licence is sold, but not for an apprentice or short term licence.
Residents and non-residents born on or after January 1, 1961, must successfully complete a hunter education course prior to purchasing a season hunting license. However, a hunter education course is not required to purchase an Apprentice License or a license identified as a “Short Term” License.Georgia Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Resources Division, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
Who counts as a Georgia resident
Georgia draws the resident line at 90 days, and the difference between the two sides of it is $15 against $100. The statutory definition is quoted below.
For purposes of purchasing recreational hunting and fishing licenses to except lifetime licenses to “Georgia Resident” means a person who has been domiciled within the State of Georgia for a period of at least three consecutive months before license purchase (declared Georgia their only state of legal residence as shown by a Georgia driver's license or official GA ID card with a Georgia address).Georgia Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Resources Division, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
39 of 50 states sell the animal separately from the right to hunt it
Georgia works the way most of the country does. Of the 50 states read here, 39 sell the tag apart from the licence and 11 print it on the licence instead. Where the tag is separate, the middle state adds 95% to the licence price before anybody has left the driveway.
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 Georgia beside every other state on licence price, first tag, and the two added together.
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Georgia Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Resources Division 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 on top