Online harvest reporting is required for all hunters who successfully take a deer. You can report your deer through the DNR Hunt Fish app or at Michigan.gov/DNRHarvestReport.

Archery deer season: open through Nov. 14 and Dec. 1 – Jan. 1, 2025.

• Statewide on public or private lands.
• Archery deer hunters in the Lower Peninsula have the option to harvest antlerless deer with their deer or deer combo license.
• In the Upper Peninsula, during the archery season, hunters can take an antlerless deer with either a deer or deer combo license, except in deer management units 007, 031, 042, 048, 066, 127 and 131 (antlerless harvest is closed during all seasons) and deer management units 017, 027, 036, 117, 149, 152, 249, 252 and 349, where antlerless harvest with a deer or deer combo license is closed after Dec. 10 in the late archery season.

Firearm deer season: Nov. 15-30.

• Statewide on public or private lands.
• Deer hunters in the Lower Peninsula have the option to harvest antlerless deer with their deer or deer combo license.

Check the 2024 Deer Hunting Regulations Summary, available at Michigan.gov/Deer, for deer hunting regulations, including information on the types of deer that may be harvested in each season and any antler point restrictions that may be in place.

See the annual deer hunting preview, which includes a regional forecast and how conditions are looking for this season.