Oregon Hunting License: $39.00, $72 With a Tag
In Oregon the licence is $39.00 and the first deer costs $72
What a season in Oregon actually costs to start
A resident hunting licence in Oregon is $39.00, sold as the Hunting. Hunting a deer on it means buying the Deer as well, at $33.00, so the first day costs $72 rather than $39.00. That is 85% 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 different licences on different clocks, so the expiry depends on which one is in the wallet.
- Resident licence $39.00, the Hunting
- Nonresident licence $193.00
- First deer on top of it $33.00, the Deer
- What the first morning costs $72
- The licence runs runs different licences on different clocks, so the expiry depends on which one is in the wallet
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife sells it through its own licensing system, which is where a fee change appears first.
Every Oregon hunting licence, at the price Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife prints
Twelve tags and permits were read off Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's own fee pages for Oregon, 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$39.00
the right to hunt, with a separate tag needed for every big game animal
annual
BIG GAME LICENSES AND TAGS | DESCRIPTION | RESIDENT | NONRESIDENT || LICENSES || Hunting | $39.00 | $193.00
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source - Hunting$193.00
the right to hunt, with a separate tag needed for every big game animal
annual
BIG GAME LICENSES AND TAGS | DESCRIPTION | RESIDENT | NONRESIDENT || LICENSES || Hunting | $39.00 | $193.00
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source - Three-Day Hunting License for Game Birds and Crows (age 18 and older)$36.00
three days of game bird and crow hunting, with the game bird validations bought on top, and no controlled hunt application
3 day
Three-Day Hunting License for Game Birds and Crows (age 18 and older). See page 7 for applicable game bird validations, permits, and tags required in addition to this license. Cannot be used to apply for controlled hunts. | N/A | $36.00
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source - Combination License (12-17 years old)$10.00
hunting, angling and shellfishing for a twelve to seventeen year old, tags bought separately
annual
Combination License (12-17 years old) - Includes Hunting, Angling, Shellfish and Columbia Rvr Basin Endorsement | $10.00
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source - Senior Hunting (age 70 and 5 years Oregon residency)$25.00
the hunting licence at the senior rate for a long standing resident
annual
Senior Hunting (age 70 and 5 years Oregon residency) | $25.00 | N/A
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source - Combination License - Angling and Hunting$86.00
hunting and angling in one resident licence, tags still bought separately
annual
Combination License - Angling and Hunting | $86.00 | N/A
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source - Sports Pac$253.00
the hunting, angling and shellfish licences with a deer, elk, cougar, bear and turkey tag and the bird validations bundled in
annual
Sports Pac - Includes Hunting, Angling and Shellfish License, Combined Angling Harvest Tag, Upland Game Bird and Waterfowl Validations, plus a General or Controlled Deer, General or Controlled Elk, Cougar, General or Controlled Bear, and Spring or Fall Turkey tag. | $253.00 | N/A
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source - Uniformed Services Hunting$19.00
the hunting licence at the uniformed service rate, with matching reduced tags
annual
Uniformed Services Hunting | $19.00 | $39.00
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
When a Oregon hunting license expires Mixed
Oregon runs different licences on different clocks, so the expiry depends on which one is in the wallet. One counter sells two licences that stop working on two different days. The fee table prints both prices and neither rule. The sentence the state uses is quoted below and links to the page it came from.
The hunting licence itself runs to the end of December whatever month it was bought, while the game bird permits and validations run on their own July to June year.
Most hunting and fishing licenses are valid from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31. You can buy next year's license on Dec. 1 to plan ahead or gift to family and friends. The exceptions are game bird hunting permits and validations that run from July 1 to June 30 each year.Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
Hunter education in Oregon
Oregon 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.
Oregon ties hunter education to age rather than to a birth year: the course is required of hunters seventeen and younger, and a nine to fifteen year old may instead hunt supervised under the Mentored Youth Hunter Program.
Before hunting, youth 17 years of age or younger must: Complete a Hunter Safety Education Course (Any U.S. state, Canada or Mexico).Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
Who counts as a Oregon resident
Oregon 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.
To qualify as an Oregon resident, you must physically reside in Oregon for not less than six consecutive months immediately prior to the date of applying for a license, tag, or permit.Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
39 of 50 states sell the animal separately from the right to hunt it
Oregon 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 Oregon beside every other state on licence price, first tag, and the two added together.
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Oregon Department of Fish and 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