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Kansas Hunting License: $25.00, $65 With a Tag

In Kansas the licence is $25.00 and the first deer costs $65

$25.00
Resident licence
1 Year Hunting License
$40.00
What the first deer costs on top
$65 for the licence and the tag together
365 days from purchase
When it stops working
365 days
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Licences and tags read here
each one linked to the fee table it came from
The short answer

What a season in Kansas actually costs to start

Tags on topKansas Department of Wildlife and Parks

A resident hunting licence in Kansas is $25.00, sold as the 1 Year Hunting License. Hunting a deer on it means buying the Kansas Resident Any-Season White-tailed Deer Permit as well, at $40.00, so the first day costs $65 rather than $25.00. That is 160% 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 $25.00, the 1 Year Hunting License
  • Nonresident licence $125.00
  • First deer on top of it $40.00, the Kansas Resident Any-Season White-tailed Deer Permit
  • What the first morning costs $65
  • The licence runs runs a licence 365 days from the day it was bought
  • Hunter education required of anyone born on or after 1957

Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks sells it through its own licensing system, which is where a fee change appears first.

What the agency sells

Every Kansas hunting licence, at the price Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks prints

Twelve tags and permits were read off Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks's own fee pages for Kansas, 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.

  • 1 Year Hunting License$25.00

    hunting for a resident aged 16 to 64, with a separate permit still needed for deer, elk, antelope and turkey

    365-day license

    1 Year Hunting License | $25.00 | 365-day license, eligible for Auto Renew
    Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
  • Non-Resident 1 Year Hunting License (ages 16 and older)$125.00

    hunting for a nonresident aged 16 and older, species permits still bought separately

    365-day license

    Non-Resident 1 Year Hunting License (ages 16 and older) | $125.00 | 365-day license, eligible for Auto Renew
    Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
  • Youth Multi-Year Hunting License$40.00

    hunting for a resident aged 16 to 20 until the year they turn 21

    multi year

    Youth Multi-Year Hunting License | $40.00 | Expires on December 31 of the year the person turns 21
    Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
  • Senior 1 Year Hunting License$12.50

    hunting for a resident aged 65 to 74

    365-day license

    Senior 1 Year Hunting License | $12.50 | 365-day license, eligible for Auto Renew
    Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
  • 1 Year Combination Hunting & Fishing License$45.00

    hunting and fishing together for a resident

    365-day license

    1 Year Combination Hunting & Fishing License | $45.00 | 365-day license, eligible for Auto Renew
    Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
  • Non-Resident 1 Year Combination Hunting & Fishing License (ages 16 and older)$190.00

    hunting and fishing together for a nonresident

    365-day license

    Non-Resident 1 Year Combination Hunting & Fishing License (ages 16 and older) | $190.00 | 365-day license, eligible for Auto Renew
    Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
  • 1 Year Apprentice Combination Hunting & Fishing License$25.00

    hunting and fishing under supervision while the hunter education requirement is deferred

    365-day license

    1 Year Apprentice Combination Hunting & Fishing License | $25.00 | 365-day license, may only be purchased two times (The apprentice license defers the Hunter Education requirement but hunter must be under the supervision of a licensed adult.)
    Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
  • Lifetime Hunting License$500

    hunting for life for a resident, bought by mailed application

    lifetime

    Lifetime Hunting License | $500 or eight quarterly payments of $69 | Available by mailed application only; notarized signature required.
    Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
The second purchase

The tags and permits that sit on top of a Kansas licence

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.

Kansas allocates deer, elk and turkey by draw, which means the application closes long before the season and the tag is awarded by lot rather than sold. What is over the counter and what is drawn is set out beside each tag below.

Tags and permits read off Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks's own fee pages, dearest resident price first.
Tag or permitSpeciesResidentNonresidentHow it is issued
Kansas Resident Elk Permits (Any Elk, Either Sex)Elk$300.00None printedDraw
Kansas Resident Archery Antelope PermitAntelope$50.00None printedOver the counter
Kansas Resident Firearm Either-Species/Either-Sex Deer PermitDeer$50.00None printedDraw
Kansas Resident Any-Season White-tailed Deer PermitDeer$40.00None printedOver the counter
Federal Duck StampWaterfowl$29.00$29.00Over the counter
Kansas Resident Spring Turkey Permits - Units 1, 2, 3, 5 & 6Turkey$25.00None printedOver the counter
Kansas Waterfowl StampWaterfowl$8.00$8.00Over the counter
Non-Resident Antelope PermitsAntelopeNone printed$300.00Over the counter
Non-Resident White-tailed Deer Permit (age 16 and older)DeerNone printed$475.00Draw
Non-Resident White-tailed Antlerless Deer Only (WAO) PermitDeerNone printed$50.00Over the counter
Non-Resident Mule Deer StampDeerNone printed$150.00Draw
Non-Resident Turkey PermitTurkeyNone printed$85.00Draw

Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, the page this was read from, read 23 September 2026

The clock

When a Kansas hunting license expires 365 days

Kansas 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 Kansas annual hunting licence runs a year from the day it is bought, not to the end of the calendar year, though the resident youth licence instead ends on December 31 of the year the holder turns 21.

Annual hunting licenses expire one year from the date of purchase.
Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
The requirement people find out about at the counter

Kansas hunter education: born on or after 1957

Kansas hangs hunter education on a birth date rather than on an age: the requirement reaches anybody born after 1957. 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.

Kansas ties its hunter education requirement to a 1957 birth date, and sells an apprentice licence twice to a hunter who has not yet taken the course.

Anyone born on or after July 1, 1957, must complete an approved hunter education course before hunting in Kansas. Anyone under 27 years old must carry their hunter education card while hunting. Students must be at least 11 years old to be certified.
Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, 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 Kansas resident

Kansas draws the resident line at 60 days, and the difference between the two sides of it is $25.00 against $125.00. The statutory definition is quoted below.

A resident is defined as a person who has maintained that person’s place of permanent abode in the state for 60 days prior to purchase.
Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
How Kansas compares

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

Kansas 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 Kansas beside every other state on licence price, first tag, and the two added together.

Kansas hunting license questions

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Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks 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