R&L Archery

Black Bear: Early Hunting Season Ended, Late Season Begins
2025-11-15 | VT
Vermont’s complete 2025 Hunting and Trapping Guide is available HERE.

Archery Deer Hunting Season Pauses, Closed During Rifle Season
2025-11-14 | VT

Migratory Bird Hunting, Early Season, Ends in CT River Zone; Click for chart with more
2025-11-11 | VT
Details on this year’s waterfowl hunting days are given in the “2025-2026 Syllabus of State and Federal Hunting Regulations for Migratory Birds in Vermont” that is available HERE.

With respect and gratitude, Thank You Veterans
2025-11-11 | VT

Canada Geese 2nd Season & Brant Hunting, Ends in Interior VT and Lake Champlain Zones; Click for chart with more
2025-11-09 | VT

Turkey Hunting Ends in Remaining (Western) WMUs F, K, N
2025-11-09 | VT

Turkey Hunting Ends in Most WMUs
2025-11-02 | VT

Muzzleloader Antlerless Deer Season, Oct. 30th to Nov. 2nd (by Permit Only)
2025-10-30 - 2025-11-02 | VT

Turkey Hunting: Archery-only Season Ended, Shotgun or Archery Season Opens
2025-10-25 | VT

Hunting Season Opens for Red & Gray Fox
2025-10-25 | VT

Trapping Season Opens for Mink, Skunk, Red & Gray Fox, Raccoon, Coyote, Opossum, Weasel; Otter, Muskrat, Beaver
2025-10-25 | VT

Youth and Novice Deer Hunting Weekend – R&L OPEN 9-to-6 BOTH DAYS – VTF&W Biologists at our check-in station
2025-10-25 - 2025-10-26 | VT

Sight-in Day at Barre Fish and Game Club
2025-10-18 | Barre Fish & Game Club, Gun Club Road, Barre, VT, 5641, United States

Raccoon Hunting Season Opens
2025-10-11 | VT

Turkey Hunting Season Opens, Archery Only
2025-10-04 | VT

Archery Deer Hunting Season Opens
2025-10-01 | VT
VERMONT FISH & WILDLIFE
Press Release
For Immediate Release: September 15, 2025
Media Contact: Nick Fortin 802-793-8777; David Sausville 802-324-4206
Vermont’s Archery Deer Season Starts Wednesday, Oct. 1
The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department says hunters are looking forward to Vermont’s upcoming October 1- November 14 and December 1-15 archery deer hunting season.
Deer hunting regulation changes made earlier this year will not go into effect until 2026.
A hunter may take up to four deer in Vermont’s two-part archery season if they do not shoot any deer in the other deer seasons. The purchase of an archery deer license and tag is required for each deer. No more than one of the deer taken during archery season may be a legal buck if no buck is taken in the other deer seasons. Antlerless deer hunting is allowed during archery season statewide this year.
In WMUs C, D1, D2, E1, E2, G, I, L, M, P, and Q a legal buck is any deer with at least one antler three inches or more in length. In WMUs A, B, F1, F2, H, J1, J2, K, N, and O a legal buck is any deer with at least one antler with two or more antler points one inch in length or longer.
Hunters must have a standard hunting license in order to purchase an add-on archery deer hunting license, except that nonresidents may purchase an “archery only deer license” costing $75. Licenses may be quickly and easily purchased at R&L Archery and on Fish and Wildlife’s website.
Hunters planning a Vermont archery deer hunting trip will find it helpful to download a copy of the 2024 Deer Harvest Report from Fish and Wildlife’s website. It has the number of deer taken in each town in last year’s deer hunting seasons.
For more information and a summary of regulations, download the 2025 Deer Seasons Guide from Vermont Fish and Wildlife’s website, or pick up a free copy of the 2025 Hunting &Trapping Guide from any license agent or highway rest area.
Vermont’s complete 2025 Hunting and Trapping Guide is available HERE.

16th Annual Egg Shoot, St. Johnsbury
2025-09-28 | Caledonia Forest & Stream Club, 706 Field and Stream Road, St. Johnsbury, VT, 05819, United States

Hunting Season Opens for Ruffed Grouse (Partridge), Hare, Rabbit
2025-09-27 | VT

Youth Waterfowl Hunting Weekend
2025-09-27 - 2025-09-28 | VT
Vermont’s youth waterfowl hunting weekend will be September 27 and 28. Resident and nonresident hunters 17 years of age or younger on those dates may hunt ducks and geese within the Lake Champlain and Interior Vermont Zones during this weekend while accompanied by an adult 18 or older. In the Connecticut River Zone, youth must be 15 years of age or younger on those dates. Both adult and youth must have Vermont hunting licenses. The adult may not hunt or carry a firearm. Youth ages 16 and 17 must have a Vermont Migratory Waterfowl tag and federal duck stamp.
Details on this year’s waterfowl hunting days are given in the “2025-2026 Syllabus of State and Federal Hunting Regulations for Migratory Birds in Vermont” that is available HERE.

Plinker Rimfire Shoot, Barre
2025-09-21 | Barre Fish & Game Club, Gun Club Road, Barre, VT, 5641, United States

Sporting Clays Shoot, West Burke, Fundraiser for Vermont Scouting
2024-09-28 | Northeast Kingdom Skeet & Sporting Clays Club, 743 Bugbee Crossing Road, West Burke, VT, 05871, United States
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