West Virginia’s 2025 archery and crossbow season for white-tailed deer opens September 27. You can harvest one deer with a base license, but you can take up to two additional deer during the season with Class RB stamps.
Buying your stamps now gives you more chances in the woods, keeps you from missing out on opening day and supports wildlife management that ensures healthy deer populations for the future. If you want to learn more about RB/RRB stamps, read on for some answers to frequently asked questions.
RB/RRB Stamps Frequently Asked Questions
Resident and nonresident hunters can purchase a maximum of two RB/RRB stamps to take up to two additional deer during the archery and crossbow season. Only one deer can be taken with each stamp. Hunters who don’t purchase RB/RRB stamps can only harvest one deer on their base license during the archery and crossbow season.
RB stamps are for resident hunters and RRB stamps are for nonresident hunters and must be purchased by an annual and lifetime license holders.
Each RB stamp for resident hunters cost $21 and each RRB stamp for nonresident hunters cost $37.
Resident and nonresident hunters can buy their RB/RRB stamps online at WVhunt.com anytime before the archery season opens on Saturday, Sept. 27. Hunters cannot purchase RB/RRB stamps after the deer archery season starts.
Yes, but if you take two deer with RB/RRB stamps, one must be an antlerless deer taken in a county open to Class N antlerless hunting.
There are nine counties or parts thereof that require hunters to take an antlerless deer within the county, which may be taken during any regular deer season open to antlerless deer hunting, before killing a second antlered deer within the county. This regulation applies across all the combined regular deer seasons and the Mountaineer Heritage Season. See page 15 of the Hunting and Trapping Regulations Summary.
There also are four counties (Logan, McDowell, Mingo and Wyoming) that have a maximum archery season limit of two deer, one of which must be antlerless. In these counties, only one RB/RRB stamp is valid, except if the first archery deer was taken in a county open to firearms deer hunting, then two deer (one must be antlerless) may be taken on a Class RB/RRB stamp.
No. Class RB/RRB stamps cannot be used to take deer during the firearm seasons. For more information about the archery and crossbow season for deer, check pages 26-28 in the Hunting and Trapping Regulations Summary.
Don’t Miss the Deadline. Buy Your RB/RRB Stamps Today!
Hunters must purchase their Class RB/RRB stamps before the archery and crossbow season begins. After 11:59 p.m. on September 26, RB stamps will no longer be available and you’ll lose your chance to harvest up to two additional deer this season. Buy your stamps now so you’re ready when the season opens.