New Hampshire Hunting License Cost: $32.00 and Up
New Hampshire prints the tags on the licence rather than selling them separately
What a season in New Hampshire actually costs to start
A resident hunting licence in New Hampshire is $32.00, sold as the Hunting. New Hampshire 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. A New Hampshire resident pays $32.00 for a hunting licence that already includes a deer tag plus the $2.50 wildlife habitat fee, then adds $16.00 for bear, $16.00 for turkey or $16.00 for the muzzleloader season on top, and the whole lot expires on 31 December whatever month it was bought.
- Resident licence $32.00, the Hunting
- Nonresident licence $53.00
- First deer on top of it $26.00, the Special Deer Archery
- The licence runs runs a hunting licence to 31 December whatever month it was bought in
New Hampshire Fish and Game Department sells it through its own licensing system, which is where a fee change appears first.
Every New Hampshire hunting licence, at the price New Hampshire Fish and Game Department prints
Everything a New Hampshire 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.
- Hunting$32.00
all wildlife in open season including small game, and a deer tag comes with it
annual
Hunting*: Resident: $32.00, Non Resident: $113.00
New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source - Archery$32.00
deer in the archery season plus other wildlife in open season with a bow, and an archery deer tag comes with it
annual
Archery: Resident: $32.00, Non Resident: $83.00
New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source - Small-game Hunting$53.00
small game only, with no deer tag issued and turkey excluded
annual
Small-game Hunting*: Resident: N/A, Non Resident: $53.00
New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source - Hunting$113.00
all wildlife in open season including small game, and a deer tag comes with it
annual
Hunting*: Resident: $32.00, Non Resident: $113.00
New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source - Small-game 3-day$25.00
small game only across three consecutive days
3 day
Small-game 3-day*: Resident: N/A, Non Resident: $25.00
New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source - Senior Hunting/Freshwater Fishing Combination$7.00
the same hunting and freshwater fishing privileges at a resident senior rate
annual
Senior Hunting/Freshwater Fishing Combination*: Resident: $7.00, Non Resident: N/A
New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source - Hunting/Freshwater Fishing Combination$56.00
everything the hunting licence covers plus freshwater fishing, but not saltwater
annual
Hunting/Freshwater Fishing Combination*: Resident: $56.00,Non Resident: $151.00
New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
When a New Hampshire hunting license expires Calendar year
New Hampshire runs a hunting licence to 31 December whatever month it was bought in. A licence bought in November is a licence with weeks left in it. The price is the same one printed beside the licence bought in January. 9 of the 50 states read here do this, against 9 that run a licence a full year from the day of sale, and the price is identical in both.
A New Hampshire licence runs to the end of the calendar year whatever day it was bought, so one bought in October is gone at the end of December, and only the temporary short term licences work differently.
Licenses run on calendar year (except temporary types), expiring on December 31st.New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
Hunter education in New Hampshire
New Hampshire requires hunter education, and it sets the requirement without a birth year cutoff, so the test is what the applicant has done rather than when they were born. 29 of the 50 states read here use a birth year instead, and those years run from 1949 to 1986.
New Hampshire has no birth year cutoff: anyone buying a hunting, archery or trapping licence must show either a licence of the same type held in any year in any state or a certificate from an approved education course, and the state requires an in person field day for the course to count.
By state law, anyone purchasing a hunting, archery or trapping license must present from any year, any state: a previously held license of the same type, or a certificate of completion from an approved state hunter, bow hunter or trapper education course. NH requires an in-person field day for the course to be valid.New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
Who counts as a New Hampshire resident
New Hampshire 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.
A New Hampshire resident is someone who holds a valid NH Driver's license or Non-Driver Photo Identification issued by the State of NH Division of Motor Vehicles and does not claim a residence in any other state for any purpose.New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
39 of 50 states sell the animal separately from the right to hunt it
New Hampshire 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 New Hampshire beside every other state on licence price, first tag, and the two added together.
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New Hampshire Fish and Game Department 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