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When does Wisconsin's 2026 ring-necked pheasant season open?
Last updated 2026-09-24 · from WDNR data · 2026 season year
Wisconsin's 2026 ring-necked pheasant season runs October 17, 2026 to January 3, 2027 — 79 days afield.
The dates
WDNR's own dates for the 2026 season year, read from WDNR. Wisconsin lists this season as Ring-necked pheasant.
| Segment | Opens | Closes | Days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Statewide | October 17, 2026 | January 3, 2027 | 79 |
The best weeks
This app carries no agency-sourced peak for ring-necked pheasant in Wisconsin, 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 WDNR publishes Wisconsin's shooting hours as a table by date rather than as a single sentence, and this app holds no copy of that table. We do not retype it here from memory: the hours move by a few minutes every week of the season, and a wrong minute at either end of the day is a citation. Read the table in the regulations before opening day. WDNR
The other questions
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- Wisconsin ring-necked pheasant regulations, 2026
- Wisconsin ring-necked pheasant hunting report
- Ring-necked pheasant hunting in Wisconsin — the whole picture
- Ring-necked pheasant — biology, range and how it is hunted