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Nevada Hunting License: $38.00, $68 With a Tag

In Nevada the licence is $38.00 and the first deer costs $68

$38.00
Resident licence
Annual Adult Hunting License (ages 18 & older)
$30.00
What the first deer costs on top
$68 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 Nevada actually costs to start

Tags on topNevada Department of Wildlife

A resident hunting licence in Nevada is $38.00, sold as the Annual Adult Hunting License (ages 18 & older). Hunting a deer on it means buying the Mule Deer Tag as well, at $30.00, so the first day costs $68 rather than $38.00. That is 79% 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 $38.00, the Annual Adult Hunting License (ages 18 & older)
  • Nonresident licence $155.00
  • First deer on top of it $30.00, the Mule Deer Tag
  • What the first morning costs $68
  • The licence runs runs a licence 365 days from the day it was bought
  • Hunter education required of anyone born on or after 1960

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

What the agency sells

Every Nevada hunting licence, at the price Nevada Department of Wildlife prints

Seven tags and permits were read off Nevada Department of Wildlife's own fee pages for Nevada, 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.

  • Annual Adult Hunting License (ages 18 & older)$38.00

    upland game and waterfowl, with big game needing a tag on top

    Annual

    Annual Adult Hunting License (ages 18 & older) | $38.00
    Nevada Department of Wildlife, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
  • Annual Adult Combination License (ages 18 & older)$155.00

    fishing as well as upland game and waterfowl hunting, with big game needing a tag on top

    Annual

    Annual Adult Combination License (ages 18 & older) | $155.00
    Nevada Department of Wildlife, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
  • 1-Day Combination Permit to Fish & Hunt Upland Game and Waterfowl (ages 18 & older)$23.00

    one day of fishing and of upland game and waterfowl hunting, with extra consecutive days at $8.00 each

    1-Day

    1-Day Combination Permit to Fish & Hunt Upland Game and Waterfowl (ages 18 & older) | $23.00 | 1-Day Combination Permit Consecutive Day | $8.00
    Nevada Department of Wildlife, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
  • Annual Youth Combination License (ages 12-17)$15.00

    hunting and fishing for a resident aged 12 to 17

    Annual

    Annual Youth Combination License (ages 12-17) | $15.00
    Nevada Department of Wildlife, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
  • Annual Senior Specialty Combination License (age 65+ with 6 months residency)$15.00

    hunting and fishing from age 65 after six months of Nevada residency

    Annual

    Annual Senior Specialty Combination License (age 65+ with 6 months residency) | $15.00
    Nevada Department of Wildlife, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
  • Annual Adult Combination License (ages 18 & older)$75.00

    hunting and fishing on one resident document

    Annual

    Annual Adult Combination License (ages 18 & older) | $75.00
    Nevada Department of Wildlife, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
  • Annual Apprentice Hunting License (ages 12 & older)$15.00

    the same hunting privileges at an apprentice price, sold only at NDOW offices

    Annual

    Annual Apprentice Hunting License (ages 12 & older)* | $15.00 ... *Available at NDOW offices only
    Nevada Department of Wildlife, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
  • Annual Disabled Veteran Specialty Combination License$15.00

    hunting and fishing for a qualifying Nevada resident veteran

    Annual

    Annual Disabled Veteran Specialty Combination License** | $15.00 ... **Initial application must be processed at an NDOW office
    Nevada Department of Wildlife, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
The second purchase

The tags and permits that sit on top of a Nevada 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.

Nevada allocates antelope, bear, deer, elk, moose 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 Nevada Department of Wildlife's own fee pages, dearest resident price first.
Tag or permitSpeciesResidentNonresidentHow it is issued
Elk TagElk$120.00$1,200.00Draw
Moose TagMoose$120.00$1,200.00Draw
Black Bear TagBear$100.00$300.00Draw
Antelope TagAntelope$60.00$300.00Draw
Mule Deer TagDeer$30.00$240.00Draw
Mountain Lion TagOther$29.00$104.00Over the counter
Wild Turkey TagTurkey$20.00$50.00Draw

Nevada Department of Wildlife, the page this was read from, read 23 September 2026

The clock

When a Nevada hunting license expires 365 days

Nevada 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 Nevada annual licence runs a year from the day it was bought rather than to a fixed date.

Valid for 1 year beginning the date of purchase. For persons 18 years of age and older at the time of purchase.
Nevada Department of Wildlife, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
The requirement people find out about at the counter

Nevada hunter education: born on or after 1960

Nevada hangs hunter education on a birth date rather than on an age: the requirement reaches anybody born after 1960. 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.

Nevada asks anyone born after January 1, 1960 to show proof of hunter education before a hunting licence is sold to them.

Anyone born after January 1, 1960, is required to provide proof of hunter education in order to purchase a Nevada hunting license. Proof of hunter education is an official hunter education card or certificate from any state or Canadian province with the hunter education number and state or provincial logo or seal, or a previous year’s hunting license with the hunter education number or mark.
Nevada Department of Wildlife, 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 Nevada resident

Nevada draws the resident line at 180 days, and the difference between the two sides of it is $38.00 against $155.00. The statutory definition is quoted below.

A person is considered to be a resident of the State of Nevada if: The person is a citizen of, or is lawfully entitled to remain in, the United States; and during the 6 months next preceding the person’s application to the Department for a license, tag or permit, the person: (1) Maintained his or her principal and permanent residence in this State; (2) Was physically present in this State, except for temporary absences; and (3) Did not purchase or apply for any hunting, fishing or trapping privilege or entitlement conditional upon residency from another state, country or province.
Nevada Department of Wildlife, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
How Nevada compares

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

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

Nevada hunting license questions

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Nevada Department of Wildlife 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