Welcome to 2025/2026 Oregon Hunting
2025 Hunting Regulations | 2026 Hunting Regulations |
What’s New for 2026
Changes or additions are highlighted in yellow throughout the document.
- Greater clarification that hunting with electronic devices attached to or incorporated in the firearm or scope is prohibited. (See Hunting Regulations)
- Hunting or taking game mammals is prohibited within 500 feet of designated highway wildlife crossing structures. (See Hunting Regulations)
- Major changes to eastern Oregon deer hunts (See Buck Deer Seasons)
- There is a shift from Wildlife Management Units (WMUs) to deer hunt areas.
- There are new hunt names and hunt numbers.
- Many new northeastern hunt areas have separate mule deer and white-tailed deer bag limits.
- See the Eastern Oregon Deer Hunts page for more information.
What’s New for 2025
Changes or additions are highlighted in yellow throughout the document.
- Three new white-tailed deer muzzleloader hunts on private land in Chesnimnus, Snake River, and Imnaha units to address increasing deer populations and damage. These hunts will require mandatory chronic wasting disease (CWD) sampling. (Buck Deer Seasons)
- There is an increase in antlerless deer tags in six southwest Oregon hunts. (Antlerless Deer Seasons)
- One new Rocky Mtn Bighorn hunt and California Bighorn tag increases in five ram and two ewe hunts. (Bighorn Sheep Seasons)
- One new Rocky Mountain Goat hunt in the Central Cascades. (Rocky Mountain Goat Seasons)
