Tagging and Reporting Deer and Turkey Harvests

2021 Harvest Tags and Instructions 

Frequently Asked Questions

ATTENTION HUNTERS: If you do not receive a confirmation number once you submit a harvest report, DO NOT immediately submit another report. Go back to this Tagging and Reporting webpage; select the “Review Reports” button; and enter the required information. You should be able to view your profile to see if the harvest report was recorded and get the confirmation number if it was (there may be a short lag time before the report shows up).

1. Immediately upon making your harvest, complete a Deer/Turkey Harvest Tag (2021 Tags). The Harvest Tag must be kept with your deer or turkey until it is processed for consumption. While transporting your harvest, you may keep the Harvest Tag in your pocket or wallet. However, if you leave the animal, the completed Harvest Tag must remain with it.
2. Deer hunters are NO longer required to bring their deer to a check station. During the entire season, deer harvests must be reported via the Department's website or by calling 1-877-337-4868 within 24 hours.
3. All turkeys and deer taken during other periods must be reported within 24 hours via the DEEP's website or by telephone at the toll-free number, 1-877-337-4868 (1-877-DEP-HUNT). The Harvest Report Form provides a list of the information you must submit. to You may find that submitting harvest reports on the website is much easier than using the telephone reporting system (which uses a live attendant who will ask you a series of questions to obtain harvest information). On the website, you answer questions by using convenient drop-down menus. Other advantages of using the website reporting option is that you can review previously submitted reports and print out copies of these reports.
4. If you report by telephone, you will need to know the 3-digit number code of the town in which the animal was harvested. A table in the Hunting and Trapping Guide lists Connecticut’s 169 towns and their identifying number codes. The Town Number Code Table is also available on the DEEP's website. If you harvested your deer or turkey on state land, you will also need to know the 3-digit number code of the public hunting area. Tables in the printed Hunting and Trapping Guide also list the 3-digit number codes for all of the public hunting areas. The Public Hunting Area Number Code Tables (split into tables for Eastern and Western Connecticut) are also available on the DEEP's website.
5. After reporting via the internet or by telephone, you will be given a confirmation number to write on your Harvest Tag. This confirmation number will serve as proof that you have legally reported your harvest.
6. At any time, you can log on to Connecticut's Online Hunter Harvest Reporting System to review the reports you have previously submitted.

Harvest Report Form

Before reporting your harvest, make sure you have all of the information you need to accurately make your report:

Town 3-Digit Number Codes for Reporting Harvests

Public Hunting Area Codes

Western Connecticut 3-Digit Number Codes for Reporting Harvests

(Fairfield, Hartford, Litchfield, and New Haven Counties)

Eastern Connecticut 3-Digit Number Codes for Reporting Harvests

(Middlesex, New London, Tolland, and Windham Counties)

Report My Harvest Online

Review My Reports 

Main Hunting and Trapping Page

Content last updated on January 6, 2021.