This record does not carry 5 regulations the state has. The declarations below are the record's own words.
kind: map — description: **The White-tailed Deer Management Unit map at the top of p.69 has NO TEXT LAYER.** It is a single image (x 94.9-486.0, y 49.9-154.3) with every county name and every unit boundary drawn into the pixels. The six units it shows are named in this record only because p.68 lists their counties in words, which is why p.68 is cited. What the map adds and this record does not carry is WHERE the unit boundaries run on the ground.
kind: figure — description: The straight-walled / necked-down rifle cartridge diagram on p.69 (x 435.9-534.1, y 284.1-382.9) illustrates footnote 4's "straight-wall cartridge ammunition" in a drawing. Its labels are read and ruled out; the distinction it draws -- a straight walled case against a tapered case -- is what makes a cartridge legal under that footnote, and this record carries only the footnote's words for it.
kind: cross-references — description: **Footnote 3 points at two programmes this record does not contain.** It says the antlered bag limit "may be exceeded only if taken as a bonus deer (only on certain WMAs), under the Earn-A-Buck program in a CWD-positive county, or as a Replacement Buck", and p.68 points at page 68 (folio; PDF p.70) for both. **PDF p.70 is the CWD IN TENNESSEE section and it is NOT cited here** -- it carries the Earn-A-Buck and Replacement Buck rules in full, the CWD Management Zone map, and the carcass transport restrictions. The exception to the statewide antlered limit is therefore named in these rows and defined nowhere in them.
kind: cross-references — description: Footnote 1 scopes the August season to "Private lands and select Unit 1 WMAs only. See individual WMA regulations." **The WMA tables are on PDF pp.92-118 and are not read.** Every WMA in Tennessee sets its own dates and quotas, so a hunter on a WMA is governed by a page this compilation does not carry -- and the same pointer is what footnote 3's "bonus deer (only on certain WMAs)" turns on.
kind: other species — description: The DEER chapter runs to PDF p.71 and elk (p.72) and bear (p.74) follow it. Only the chapter's first two pages are cited: pp.70-71 carry CWD and the deer-checking/tagging requirements. This record is Tennessee's statewide deer SEASONS, BAG LIMITS and unit definitions, and is silent on how a harvested deer must be checked.
Archery (A) opens in 2 days derived as of Sep 24
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.
Open the source document → https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/twra/documents/guide/TWRA-TN-Hunting-Guide.pdf#page=69If 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.
Aug. 28–Aug. 30
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2026-08-28 → 2026-08-30 derived (year inferred)
| footnotes | 1; 3 |
|---|---|
| source_page | p.69 (folio 67) |
| statewide_antlered_bag_limit | 2 (1/day) |
| units_1_2_3_antlerless_bag_limit | No antlerless harvest |
| units_4_5_6_antlerless_bag_limit | No antlerless harvest |
Oct. 31–Nov. 1; Jan. 9–10, 2027
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2026-10-31 → 2026-11-01 derived (year inferred)
2027-01-09 → 2027-01-10 derived
| footnotes | 2; 3 |
|---|---|
| source_page | p.69 (folio 67) |
| statewide_antlered_bag_limit | 2 (1/day) |
| units_1_2_3_antlerless_bag_limit | 3/day |
| units_4_5_6_antlerless_bag_limit | 2 |
Sept. 26–Oct. 30; Nov. 2–Nov. 6
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2026-11-02 → 2026-11-06 derived (year inferred)
| footnotes | 3 |
|---|---|
| source_page | p.69 (folio 67) |
| statewide_antlered_bag_limit | 2 (1/day) |
| units_1_2_3_antlerless_bag_limit | 3/day |
| units_4_5_6_antlerless_bag_limit | 4 |
Nov. 7–Nov. 20
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| footnotes | 3 |
|---|---|
| source_page | p.69 (folio 67) |
| statewide_antlered_bag_limit | 2 (1/day) |
| units_1_2_3_antlerless_bag_limit | 3/day |
| units_4_5_6_antlerless_bag_limit | 2 |
Nov. 14–20
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| footnotes | 3; 4 |
|---|---|
| source_page | p.69 (folio 67) |
| statewide_antlered_bag_limit | 2 (1/day) |
| units_1_2_3_antlerless_bag_limit | 3/day |
| units_4_5_6_antlerless_bag_limit | 2 |
Nov. 21–Jan. 3, 2027
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| footnotes | 3 |
|---|---|
| source_page | p.69 (folio 67) |
| statewide_antlered_bag_limit | 2 (1/day) |
| units_1_2_3_antlerless_bag_limit | 3/day |
| units_4_5_6_antlerless_bag_limit | 2 |
| source_page | p.68 (folio 66) |
|---|---|
| value | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson, Hardeman, Hardin, Haywood, Henderson, Henry, Lauderdale, Lake, Madison, McNairy, Obion, Shelby, Tipton, and Weakley counties. |
| source_page | p.68 (folio 66) |
|---|---|
| value | Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Giles, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys, Lawrence, Lincoln, Lewis, Marshall, Maury, Montgomery, Perry, Robertson, Stewart, Sumner, Wayne, and Williamson counties. |
| source_page | p.68 (folio 66) |
|---|---|
| value | Bedford, Cannon, Clay, Coffee, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Macon, Moore, Overton, Putnam, Rutherford, Smith, Trousdale, Van Buren, Warren, White, and Wilson counties. |
| source_page | p.68 (folio 66) |
|---|---|
| value | Anderson, Bledsoe, Campbell, Claiborne, Cumberland, Fentress, Grainger, Grundy, Hancock, Morgan, Pickett, Scott, Sequatchie, and Union counties. |
| source_page | p.68 (folio 66) |
|---|---|
| value | Bradley, Hamilton, Loudon, Knox, Marion, McMinn, Meigs, Rhea, and Roane counties. |
| source_page | p.68 (folio 66) |
|---|---|
| value | Blount, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Hamblen, Hawkins, Jefferson, Johnson, Monroe, Polk, Sevier, Sullivan, Unicoi, and Washington counties. |
| source_page | p.68 (folio 66) |
|---|
| source_page | p.68 (folio 66) |
|---|---|
| value | Two (2) antlered deer (one per day, not to exceed 2 for the season). The bag limit of two (2) antlered deer may be exceeded if taken as a bonus deer (only on certain WMAs), under the Earn-A-Buck program in a CWD positive county (See page 68), or as a replacement buck (See page 68). |
| source_page | p.68 (folio 66) |
|---|---|
| value | Hunters may harvest up to the unit antlerless bag limit in each DMU. Moving to a different county within the same DMU does not increase the hunter’s bag limit. |
| source_page | p.68 (folio 66) |
|---|---|
| value | Male or female deer with at least one (1) antler that is a minimum of three (3) inches in length. |
| source_page | p.68 (folio 66) |
|---|---|
| value | Male or female deer with no antlers or with antlers that are less than three (3) inches in length. |
| marker | 1 |
|---|---|
| source_page | p.69 (folio 67) |
| marker | 2 |
|---|---|
| source_page | p.69 (folio 67) |
| marker | 3 |
|---|---|
| source_page | p.69 (folio 67) |
| marker | 4 |
|---|---|
| source_page | p.69 (folio 67) |
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.
overOVER: a restriction/requirement this record does not carry [restriction='restrict', limit_or_quota='bag limit', disease_or_bait='CWD']; the gap ALSO names an opportunity it does not carry [extra_allowance='may be exceeded'], so it errs both ways and the dangerous direction is reported
overOVER: a restriction/requirement this record does not carry [limit_or_quota='quota', overriding_regime='sets its own dates']; the gap ALSO names an opportunity it does not carry [extra_allowance='bonus deer'], so it errs both ways and the dangerous direction is reported
overOVER: the gap names a restriction, requirement, closure or supersession the record does not carry [obligation='requirement', limit_or_quota='BAG LIMIT', tag_check_report='checking', disease_or_bait='CWD']; a row read without it is broader than the regulation
unknowncannot be determined: the gap carries regulation but its description names neither a restriction nor an opportunity in terms this rule can read (kind='map'). Boundary, map and definition gaps land here and belong here — not knowing which unit you are in cuts both ways
unknowncannot be determined: the gap carries regulation but its description names neither a restriction nor an opportunity in terms this rule can read (kind='figure'). Boundary, map and definition gaps land here and belong here — not knowing which unit you are in cuts both ways
unknown2 page boundary/boundaries beside the cited range were never inspected (1 of them where the UNCITED NEIGHBOUR DRAWS A TABLE). 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.
carries_regulation flag at face value. A gap mis-declared as non-regulatory is a silent miss.Current through — the document this record was read from, and nothing later than it:
2026-2027 Tennessee Fishing, Hunting, & Trapping Guide, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, effective August 1, 2026 to July 31, 2027; p.68 (printed folio 66), "White-tailed Deer Management Units (DMUs)" and "Deer Definitions and Bag Limits", and p.69 (printed folio 67), "Deer Seasons and Bag Limits". **PDF index and printed folio differ by two on both pages** and both numbers are given deliberately
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.
derived Tennessee declares 6 gaps, of which 5 are regulation this compilation does not carry.
map
**The White-tailed Deer Management Unit map at the top of p.69 has NO TEXT LAYER.** It is a single image (x 94.9-486.0, y 49.9-154.3) with every county name and every unit boundary drawn into the pixels. The six units it shows are named in this record only because p.68 lists their counties in words, which is why p.68 is cited. What the map adds and this record does not carry is WHERE the unit boundaries run on the ground.
derived family: map
Who does have it
Not us. Tennessee’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:
https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/twra/documents/guide/TWRA-TN-Hunting-Guide.pdf#page=69Where 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.
figure
The straight-walled / necked-down rifle cartridge diagram on p.69 (x 435.9-534.1, y 284.1-382.9) illustrates footnote 4's "straight-wall cartridge ammunition" in a drawing. Its labels are read and ruled out; the distinction it draws -- a straight walled case against a tapered case -- is what makes a cartridge legal under that footnote, and this record carries only the footnote's words for it.
derived family: figure/diagram/chart
Who does have it
Not us. Tennessee’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:
https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/twra/documents/guide/TWRA-TN-Hunting-Guide.pdf#page=69Where 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.
cross-references
**Footnote 3 points at two programmes this record does not contain.** It says the antlered bag limit "may be exceeded only if taken as a bonus deer (only on certain WMAs), under the Earn-A-Buck program in a CWD-positive county, or as a Replacement Buck", and p.68 points at page 68 (folio; PDF p.70) for both. **PDF p.70 is the CWD IN TENNESSEE section and it is NOT cited here** -- it carries the Earn-A-Buck and Replacement Buck rules in full, the CWD Management Zone map, and the carcass transport restrictions. The exception to the statewide antlered limit is therefore named in these rows and defined nowhere in them.
derived family: cross-reference
Who does have it
Not us. Tennessee’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:
https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/twra/documents/guide/TWRA-TN-Hunting-Guide.pdf#page=69Where 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.
cross-references
Footnote 1 scopes the August season to "Private lands and select Unit 1 WMAs only. See individual WMA regulations." **The WMA tables are on PDF pp.92-118 and are not read.** Every WMA in Tennessee sets its own dates and quotas, so a hunter on a WMA is governed by a page this compilation does not carry -- and the same pointer is what footnote 3's "bonus deer (only on certain WMAs)" turns on.
derived family: cross-reference
Who does have it
Not us. Tennessee’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:
https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/twra/documents/guide/TWRA-TN-Hunting-Guide.pdf#page=69Where 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.
other species
The DEER chapter runs to PDF p.71 and elk (p.72) and bear (p.74) follow it. Only the chapter's first two pages are cited: pp.70-71 carry CWD and the deer-checking/tagging requirements. This record is Tennessee's statewide deer SEASONS, BAG LIMITS and unit definitions, and is silent on how a harvested deer must be checked.
derived family: scope of the compilation
Who does have it
Not us. Tennessee’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:
https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/twra/documents/guide/TWRA-TN-Hunting-Guide.pdf#page=69Where 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.
advertisement
**p.69 is 53.4% image and p.68 is 30.2%**, and almost all of it is paid advertising: a full-page Whitetail Properties Real Estate advert on p.69 carrying eleven agents and their phone numbers, and two more on p.68. None of it is regulation. It is ruled out line by line with that reason rather than swept, and it matters to anyone reading pypdf's text stream because **the advertisement is lines 0-51 of page 69 and the season table does not begin until line 52** -- any "first N lines of the page" heuristic reads a realtor's advert.
derived family: photograph/graphic/advertisement
100.0% of one unit per PRINTED BLOCK across the two cited pages: on p.69 one drawn table cell (the page rules every cell, including every merge), one whole numbered footnote, or one baseline-clustered loose line; on p.68 one rejoined PARAGRAPH of its three prose columns. 1 unit is 1 cell / 1 footnote / 1 paragraph, NOT 1 pypdf text line -- pypdf's line stream on p.69 opens with 51 lines of a realtor advertisement and glues an antlerless bag limit onto the end of a date
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.
These are not gaps.
The Booklet 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.