Brant Hunting in Pennsylvania

Brant seasons in Pennsylvania, 2026-27

Dates below are the Game Commission’s for 2026-27, 10 lines in all, with the Sunday count beside each.

PGC notes on these rows

• Junior and mentored youth hunters, properly accompanied. Ducks, mergansers, coots, gallinules, brant and Canada geese; regular-season bag limits. Hours close at sunset.
• Junior and mentored youth hunters, veterans (38 U.S.C. 101) and active-duty Armed Forces incl. National Guard/Reserves on active duty. Ducks, mergansers, coots, gallinules, brant and Canada geese; regular-season bag limits.
• Veterans and active-duty military only. Ducks, mergansers, coots, gallinules, brant and Canada geese; regular-season bag limits.
• 1 daily, 3 possession. Sunday hunting prohibited for migratory game birds.

From the Pennsylvania Game Commission seasons and bag limits and the 2026-27 digest, checked October 12, 2026.

Brant public hunting areas

Brant appear on 131 public tracts, about 522,489 acres between them, sorted here by size.

Smaller brant tracts

State Game Lands 159 (9,448 ac) · Erie National Wildlife Refuge (8,959 ac) · Raccoon Creek State Park (7,000 ac) · Oil Creek State Park (6,800 ac) · State Game Lands 40 (6,200 ac) · State Game Lands 46 (6,053 ac) · French Creek State Park (6,000 ac) · Lehigh Gorge State Park (6,000 ac) · State Game Lands 38 (5,818 ac) · State Game Lands 213 (5,646 ac) · Prince Gallitzin State Park (5,600 ac) · Tobyhanna State Park (5,200 ac) · Blue Knob State Park (5,000 ac) · Bald Eagle State Park (4,910 ac) · State Game Lands 69 (4,476 ac) · State Game Lands 312 (4,459 ac) · Hillman State Park (3,650 ac) · Nescopeck State Park (3,500 ac) · Nockamixon State Park (3,500 ac) · Swatara State Park (3,500 ac) · Shenango River Lake (3,449 ac) · Elk State Park (3,150 ac) · Black Moshannon State Park (3,000 ac) · Shawnee State Park (3,000 ac) · State Game Lands 145 (2,987 ac) · State Game Lands 302 (2,976 ac) · Codorus State Park (2,800 ac) · Gouldsboro State Park (2,700 ac) · State Game Lands 43 (2,571 ac) · State Game Lands 280 (2,552 ac) · Kings Gap Environmental Education Center (2,500 ac) · State Game Lands 301 (2,332 ac) · Yellow Creek State Park (2,300 ac) · Laurel Hill State Park (2,200 ac) · McConnells Mill State Park (2,200 ac) · Gifford Pinchot State Park (1,945 ac) · State Game Lands 56 (1,791 ac) · Beltzville State Park (1,700 ac) · Little Pine State Park (1,700 ac) · Locust Lake State Park (1,700 ac) · William Penn State Forest (1,683 ac) · Kettle Creek State Park (1,640 ac) · State Game Lands 284 (1,590 ac) · State Game Lands 151 (1,584 ac) · Prompton State Park (1,400 ac) · Sinnemahoning State Park (1,400 ac) · State Game Lands 140 (1,346 ac) · State Game Lands 218 (1,339 ac) · Promised Land State Park (1,300 ac) · State Game Lands 191 (1,223 ac) · State Game Lands 310 (1,197 ac) · State Game Lands 277 (1,192 ac) · State Game Lands 243 (1,167 ac) · State Game Lands 254 (1,163 ac) · State Game Lands 199 (1,129 ac) · State Game Lands 317 (1,103 ac) · Mount Pisgah State Park (1,100 ac) · Tuscarora State Park (1,100 ac) · Maurice K. Goddard State Park (1,075 ac) · Clear Creek State Park (1,000 ac) · 56 others

Top counties for brant

• Crawford County8 tracts
• Wayne County8 tracts
• Monroe County7 tracts
• Dauphin County6 tracts
• Erie County6 tracts
• Carbon County5 tracts
• Luzerne County5 tracts
• Potter County5 tracts
• Berks County4 tracts
• Bucks County4 tracts
• Chester County4 tracts
• Lackawanna County4 tracts
• Lawrence County4 tracts
• Mercer County4 tracts
• York County4 tracts

PGC State Game Lands GIS, DCNR forest and park hunting pages and federal managers (PGC layers), retrieved 2026-10-12. Species lists are what each manager names; area rules still apply.

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