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When does Minnesota's 2026 ring-necked pheasant season open?
Last updated 2026-09-24 · from MN DNR data · 2026 season year
Minnesota's 2026 ring-necked pheasant season runs October 10, 2026 to January 3, 2027 — 86 days afield.
The dates
MN DNR's own dates for the 2026 season year, read from MN DNR. Minnesota lists this season as Ring-necked pheasant.
| Segment | Opens | Closes | Days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Statewide | October 10, 2026 | January 3, 2027 | 86 |
The best weeks
This app carries no agency-sourced peak for ring-necked pheasant in Minnesota, so none is claimed here. Within the dates above, the two weeks either side of the leaf drop are the traditional answer in the northern states and the first hard frost is the southern one — both are hunters' rules of thumb rather than anything an agency published.
Shooting hours
- Legal hours
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not carried MN DNR publishes Minnesota's small game shooting hours in the hunting regulations booklet rather than as a sentence on a page this build reads, and this app holds no copy of it. We do not retype it from memory: the states on this site do not agree with each other about when the day ends — Michigan closes at sunset, Virginia a half-hour after it — so a rule carried across a state line is exactly how a hunter gets a citation. Read the booklet before opening day. MN DNR
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