This record does not carry a regulation the state has. kind: cross-references — description: Three bodies of deer regulation this page names and does not contain: either-sex days (pp.12-13), county antler restrictions (p.11), and every WMA, PFA, state-park and federal-land date — the page's own first line says those "may differ from those below" and points at pp.32-50 and 52-57. A hunter on a WMA cannot rely on this table alone.
This record does not carry a regulation the state has. kind: adjacent-page prose — description: The page before the cited one (p.17, folio 15) is prose, draws no table rules, and is NOT a continuation of this table — it is headed "Alligator, Bear, Feral Hog, Small Game & Turkey". Rendered and read rather than scored, because the mechanical adjacent-page check returns n/a for a page that draws no rules. It carries no deer season, date or bag limit. It does carry one sentence that touches deer hunting and is not reproduced here: under "Feral Hog — WMAs and National Forest Lands", "Hunter orange or blaze pink is required during firearms and primitive weapons deer and bear hunts." That is a real requirement, it is printed in another species' section, and this compilation does not carry it.
huntregs is not the law and is not an official edition of any state’s regulations: no state agency writes, reviews, publishes or approves it, and where a page here differs from the agency document it cites, the agency document is the regulation and this page is wrong.
It is an editorial compilation of state agency regulation documents: every row is carried verbatim out of one named document, cited by title, identified by the sha256 of the exact bytes we read, and printed beside the source lines it was read from.
What we do carry
rows verbatim — no row is summarised, and every field the source row carried is rendered, including the ones we have no column for;
each record’s own declaration of what it does not contain, printed in full and unedited, above the rows rather than under them;
our own withdrawals — dated, with the reason as written, and the state’s rows gone from every route while the withdrawal stands.
What we do not carry
the law itself. Every state page links the agency’s own document; that is the thing to read.
declared gaps. Where a record says regulation exists that it does not carry, that regulation is not here — it is named, in the record’s words, and it is still missing.
zone, unit or boundary geometry. The compilation holds no maps and this app draws none; several records declare that as a gap themselves.
shooting hours. Clock, sunrise and sunset text is shown exactly as written — nothing here computes a sunrise, a sunset or a timezone.
legal advice, or any judgement about whether a particular hunt is lawful for you.
every state. Some have no record in this compilation at all and some are withheld by the verification ledger today; which is which is measured on the index page each time it is loaded, not listed here.
Error direction — If this record is wrong, it is most likely wrong toward saying you MAY do something you may not.
That is the direction that ends in a citation, or in a hunter on ground the state has closed. Read the signals below before you use any row on this page.
Derived by rule from this record's own declared gaps, its own integrity fields and its own rows. It is not a score and there is no confidence number: the counts below count signals, nothing more.
2 over-permissive · 1 undeterminable · 0 under-permissive · 2 declared gap(s), 2 of which the record says carry regulation · 6 row(s) scanned
3 signal(s), most dangerous first. The evidence lines below are the rule's own excerpts, cut at 220 characters; every gap is printed in full and verbatim under what this record does not carry.
overOVER: the gap names a restriction, requirement, closure or supersession the record does not carry [restriction='restrict', antler_rule='antler restrict', not_an_entitlement='cannot rely on', overriding_regime='may differ from']; a row read without it is broader than the regulation
known_gaps[0]: Three bodies of deer regulation this page names and does not contain: either-sex days (pp.12-13), county antler restrictions (p.11), and every WMA, PFA, state-park and federal-land date — the page's own first line says …
overOVER: the gap names a restriction, requirement, closure or supersession the record does not carry [obligation='required', limit_or_quota='bag limit', visibility='Hunter orange']; a row read without it is broader than the regulation
known_gaps[1]: The page before the cited one (p.17, folio 15) is prose, draws no table rules, and is NOT a continuation of this table — it is headed "Alligator, Bear, Feral Hog, Small Game & Turkey". Rendered and read rather than scor…
unknown1 page boundary/boundaries beside the cited range were never inspected. A table that continues past a citation loses whole rows — the missing rows could be further seasons (under) or the restrictions on the ones published (over), and this is the check five states went OFFLINE for skipping.
p17 (beside cited p18) — the uncited neighbour draws none; the cited page does — the safest case, the neighbour is probably prose…
what this rule cannot see
It reads this record's OWN prose. A restriction nobody declared is invisible to it — and an undeclared restriction is what takes a state offline.
It takes each gap's carries_regulation flag at face value. A gap mis-declared as non-regulatory is a silent miss.
It cannot weigh. One missing county list and fourteen missing pages of special-permit hunts each score once. There is no severity here, and that is why no score is shown.
It classifies a whole gap, never a row. A gap that qualifies four rows and a gap that qualifies all of them read identically.
Across the published records the record-level answer is almost always over. That is a statement about how regulation is written — what is missing from a compilation is usually a restriction — not a ranking of states.
Record integrity
Current through — the document this record was read from, and nothing later than it:
2026-2027 Georgia Hunting and Fishing Regulations and Seasons, p.18 (folio 16), "Big Game, Small Game & Trapping"
The document is those bytes. A URL is a name; if the publisher replaces the file behind it, this hash stops matching and the mismatch is the finding.
We fetched it on 2026-08-08. That is our retrieval date, not a publication date. This record carries no date on which its publisher issued, adopted, amended or last revised that document, so this page states none. Any effective, issue or adoption date the document states of itself is inside the citation above, in the publisher’s own words — nothing here lifts it out or restates it as a fact of ours.
The publisher is named inside that citation, in the publisher’s own words. This record carries no publisher field of its own, so nothing here names one separately.
The record states its own regulation year as 2026. That is the record’s field, not a currency claim: a record may state a year older than the day we fetched it, and where it does, it says so here.
Do not take our word for it. The document every row on this page was read out of is one tap away, and checking us against it is exactly what the citation, the sha256 and the source lines under each row are for.
If that document says something this page does not, the document is the regulation and this page is wrong. The copy we read is the one whose sha256 is above; if the publisher has replaced the file since 2026-08-08, yours will not match ours, and that difference is the thing worth knowing.
What this record does not carry
derived Georgia declares 2 gaps, of which 2 are regulation this compilation does not carry.
2 gap(s) the record says carry regulation
These are regulation that exists and is not in here. They are printed in full, in the record's own words.
cross-references
Three bodies of deer regulation this page names and does not contain: either-sex days (pp.12-13), county antler restrictions (p.11), and every WMA, PFA, state-park and federal-land date — the page's own first line says those "may differ from those below" and points at pp.32-50 and 52-57. A hunter on a WMA cannot rely on this table alone.
derived family: cross-reference
Who does have it
Not us. Georgia’s agency publishes the document this record was read from, and that document — not this page — is where the material above has to be chased:
Where the description above names some other document, register, office or telephone number, that naming is the record’s own and is printed in full above. Nothing here has followed it up for you, and nothing here has re-typed it.
adjacent-page prose
The page before the cited one (p.17, folio 15) is prose, draws no table rules, and is NOT a continuation of this table — it is headed "Alligator, Bear, Feral Hog, Small Game & Turkey". Rendered and read rather than scored, because the mechanical adjacent-page check returns n/a for a page that draws no rules. It carries no deer season, date or bag limit. It does carry one sentence that touches deer hunting and is not reproduced here: under "Feral Hog — WMAs and National Forest Lands", "Hunter orange or blaze pink is required during firearms and primitive weapons deer and bear hunts." That is a real requirement, it is printed in another species' section, and this compilation does not carry it.
derived family: cross-reference
Who does have it
Not us. Georgia’s agency publishes the document this record was read from, and that document — not this page — is where the material above has to be chased:
Where the description above names some other document, register, office or telephone number, that naming is the record’s own and is printed in full above. Nothing here has followed it up for you, and nothing here has re-typed it.
Coverage
100.0% of drawn table cells, plus every word outside one
derived: this percentage is over the units named above, on the pages this record cites. It is not a percentage of the state's regulation. The gaps above are what a full percentage would have to count and cannot.
1 page(s) cited
18
1 page boundary/boundaries never inspected
p17 (beside cited p18) — the uncited neighbour draws none; the cited page does — the safest case, the neighbour is probably prose, but prose is how Utah lost nine pages, so the continuation check cannot fire. NOT a clean result: it was never inspected.
4 library repair(s)
line: -1; was: F irearms; now: Firearms; basis: pypdf splits this token; the coordinate reading keeps it whole
line: -1; was: Zones .; now: Zones.; basis: pypdf splits this token; the coordinate reading keeps it whole
line: -1; was: I f; now: If; basis: pypdf splits this token; the coordinate reading keeps it whole
line: -1; was: Youth- Only; now: Youth-Only; basis: the booklet never prints this word whole; the rendered page does
68 swept source line(s) in 11 reason group(s) — NOT declared gaps
These are not gaps.
ruled_out entries are source lines the extractor accounted for and did NOT publish, each with the reason it gave. They are not declared gaps: a declared gap is regulation the record says exists and it does not carry.
9 × — another species: this cell lies inside the "Turkey" block of the same table (y 381.2-449.6), and this compilation covers white-tailed deer only. The rule is real and is not carried here.
Turkey
Special Opportunity, Statewide
Mar. 20-21, 2027
Only for youth under 16 years of age and mobility-impaired persons (see page 15). This season does not apply to public lands unless otherwise specified.
Private Lands
Mar. 27 - May 15, 2027
2 Gobblers per season; Daily bag limit of 1 (including Special Opportunity season). On WMAs, VPAs, & National Forest lands: 1 gobbler per area per person. See individual WMA listings for specifics pages 32-57.
WMAs, VPAs & National Forest
Apr. 3 - May 15, 2027
8 × — another species: this cell lies inside the "Bear" block of the same table (y 304.5-381.2), and this compilation covers white-tailed deer only. The rule is real and is not carried here.
Two per season, provided, however, no more than one of these may be taken from the Central or Southern Zones. See pages 8 & 14 for bear harvest and reporting requirements. See page 20 for reporting requirements for bears harvested on WMAs. * If fewer than 6 female bears are harvested on Dec. 19 then a 2nd hunt day will be opened in January (please visit www.georgiawildlife.com after Dec. 21.
Central Zone
Firearms: Dec. 19*
Southern Zone
Firearms: Sept. 17-19, 24-26, Oct. 1-3, 8-10
7 × — another species: this cell lies inside the "Grouse" block of the same table (y 483.9-509.7), and this compilation covers white-tailed deer only. The rule is real and is not carried here.
Grouse
Statewide
Oct. 15 - Feb. 28
3 per day
Falconry
Oct. 1 - Mar. 15
3 per day
7 × — another species: this cell lies inside the "Quail" block of the same table (y 509.7-552.6), and this compilation covers white-tailed deer only. The rule is real and is not carried here.
Quail
Statewide
Nov. 14 - Feb. 28
12 per day. On WMAs, VPAs, & National Forest lands: 3 quail per person a day. See individual WMA listings for specifics pages 32-57.
Falconry
Oct. 1 - Mar. 15
12 per day
7 × — another species: this cell lies inside the "Rabbit" block of the same table (y 552.6-578.4), and this compilation covers white-tailed deer only. The rule is real and is not carried here.
Rabbit
Statewide
Nov. 14 - Feb. 28
12 per day
Falconry
Oct. 1 - Mar. 15
12 per day
7 × — another species: this cell lies inside the "Raccoon & Opossum" block of the same table (y 578.4-604.2), and this compilation covers white-tailed deer only. The rule is real and is not carried here.
Raccoon & Opossum
Private lands
No closed season
No limit
Public lands
Aug. 15 - Feb. 28
No limit
7 × — another species: this cell lies inside the "Squirrel" block of the same table (y 604.2-630.1), and this compilation covers white-tailed deer only. The rule is real and is not carried here.
Squirrel
Statewide
Aug. 15 - Feb. 28
12 per day
Falconry
Aug. 15 - Mar. 15
12 per day
4 × — another species: this cell lies inside the "Alligator" block of the same table (y 449.6-462.5), and this compilation covers white-tailed deer only. The rule is real and is not carried here.
Alligator
Zone & Quota Limited
Aug. 14 (Sunset) - Oct. 5 (Sunrise)
1 per quota permit holder
4 × — another species: this cell lies inside the "Bobcat, Fox, Mink, Muskrat, Otter, Skunk, Weasel" block of the same table (y 630.1-685.5), and this compilation covers white-tailed deer only. The rule is real and is not carried here.
Bobcat, Fox, Mink, Muskrat, Otter, Skunk, Weasel
Statewide
Dec. 1 - Feb. 28
No limit
4 × — another species: this cell lies inside the "Fox & Bobcat" block of the same table (y 462.5-483.9), and this compilation covers white-tailed deer only. The rule is real and is not carried here.
Fox & Bobcat
Statewide
Dec. 1 - Feb. 28
No limit
4 × — another species: this cell lies inside the "Raccoon, Opossum" block of the same table (y 685.5-706.9), and this compilation covers white-tailed deer only. The rule is real and is not carried here.
See pages 12-13 for either sex days. 12 per season, Statewide. No more than 10 may be antlerless and no more than 2 may be antlered. One of the 2 antlered deer must have at least 4 points, one inch or longer, on one side of the antlers or at least a 15-inch outside spread. See page 11 for requirements in counties with antler restrictions. * Firearms deer hunting is not allowed in Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton (north of GA Hwy 92), and that portion of Glynn County lying within Jekyll Island. In the portion of Forsyth County south of GA Hwy 20 only shotguns and muzzleloaders may be used (no other firearms allowed). In Baker, Calhoun, Decatur, Early, Grady, Miller, Mitchell, Seminole, & Thomas Cos., the first 2 weeks of archery is buck only.
this record carries no per-row page and none of this row's source lines is unique to a single page, so the row cannot be narrowed; these are the 1 page(s) the record says the adapter read for the whole state
These are the pages the adapter read for the whole state. This row was not narrowed to a page of its own.
See pages 12-13 for either sex days. 12 per season, Statewide. No more than 10 may be antlerless and no more than 2 may be antlered. One of the 2 antlered deer must have at least 4 points, one inch or longer, on one side of the antlers or at least a 15-inch outside spread. See page 11 for requirements in counties with antler restrictions. * Firearms deer hunting is not allowed in Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton (north of GA Hwy 92), and that portion of Glynn County lying within Jekyll Island. In the portion of Forsyth County south of GA Hwy 20 only shotguns and muzzleloaders may be used (no other firearms allowed). In Baker, Calhoun, Decatur, Early, Grady, Miller, Mitchell, Seminole, & Thomas Cos., the first 2 weeks of archery is buck only.
2026-2027 Georgia Hunting and Fishing Regulations and Seasons, p.18 (folio 16), "Big Game, Small Game & Trapping"
Hunting seasons, dates, and bag limits on WMAs, PFAs, State Parks, and federal lands may differ from those below. See pages 32-50 & 52-57 for specific dates in the area specific listing.
