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Idaho california bighorn sheep controlled hunt 7001

How many hunters put this controlled hunt first and how many of them drew it — season by season, for both of Idaho's application periods and both residency pools. Every figure comes from an Idaho Fish and Game response linked at the foot of this page.

What the 2025 drawing did

Idaho offered 1 permit on hunt 7001 in 2025 and issued 1 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 150 hunters put it first and 1 drew, 0.67%.

Idaho grants no preference for having applied before. The department is direct about it — "IDFG does not use any point system in our draw process" — and its own published data has never carried a point, preference or bonus field in the twenty-nine seasons it covers. Applying for eleven years earns exactly what applying for the first time earns. There is no points-to-draw figure on this page because there is none to publish, and any site showing you one for Idaho has invented it.

This hunt number stops appearing after 2025. Idaho's 2026 drawing does not carry it. Hunt numbers are reissued, so this site does not map a retired number onto a current one — see the note on areas below.

Residency

First-choice draw rate, by season

The rate is the hunters awarded this hunt on their first choice, divided by the hunters who named it first. Both are exact integers Idaho Fish and Game returns in the same record. A dash means nobody named it first, so the drawing answered nothing — absent, not nought.
SeasonAreaPermits availablePut it firstDrew on first choiceFirst-choice draw ratePut it secondDrew on second choicePermits issued
202540115010.67%3401
202440112710.79%3401
202340113710.73%4501
202240112910.78%2101
20214018411.19%1101
20204018211.22%1501
20194015111.96%2101
20184016011.67%901
20174013912.56%901
20164014012.50%501
20154012713.70%901
20144025623.57%1102
20134023525.71%802
20124025823.45%1802
20114029122.20%1602
20104025223.85%2502
20094027522.67%3002
200841-1*211321.77%4302
200741-1*25823.45%5002
200641*310732.80%6703
200541*38033.75%5103
20044139333.23%6203
20034137434.05%5703
20024138333.61%3303
20014136734.48%2203
200041-148344.82%3604
199941-1411543.48%6704
199841-159555.26%5105

The area label changes across seasons for this hunt number — Idaho printed 40, 41-1*, 41*, 41, 41-1. A controlled hunt number is reissued, and the department publishes nothing that settles whether the same number covers the same ground from one season to the next: across all its hunts, 874 of 974 numbers see its own internal area key change and 888 see the printed label change, independently of each other. So each row shows the label Idaho printed for that season and this page asserts nothing about the place.

By residency

Idaho splits both applicants and permits by residency. The applicant counts are first-choice only in every season; the permit counts are not, which is why some rates here are blank.
SeasonResidencyPut it firstPermitsDraw rateWhat the permit count coversIDFG's own figure
2025Resident5200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2025Nonresident9811.02%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2024Resident3100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2024Nonresident9611.04%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2023Resident4500.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2023Nonresident9211.09%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2022Resident4300.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2022Nonresident8611.16%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2021Resident2800.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2021Nonresident5611.79%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2020Resident5012.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2020Nonresident3200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2019Resident2015.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2019Nonresident3100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2018Resident2314.35%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2018Nonresident3700.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2017Resident2913.45%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2017Nonresident1000.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2016Resident1915.26%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2016Nonresident2100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2015Resident10110.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree10%
2015Nonresident1700.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2014Resident3625.56%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2014Nonresident2000.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2013Resident2428.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree8%
2013Nonresident1100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2012Resident2713.70%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2012Nonresident3113.23%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2011Resident3425.88%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2011Nonresident5700.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2010Resident3226.25%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2010Nonresident2000.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2009Resident2827.14%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2009Nonresident4700.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2008Resident4524.44%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2008Nonresident6800.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2007Resident4025.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2007Nonresident1800.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2006Resident6634.55%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2006Nonresident4100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2005Resident6035.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2005Nonresident2000.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2004Resident5635.36%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2004Nonresident3700.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2003Resident5735.26%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2003Nonresident1700.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2002Resident5623.57%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2002Nonresident2713.70%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2001Resident4824.17%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2001Nonresident1915.26%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2000Resident6534.62%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2000Nonresident1815.56%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
1999Resident7733.90%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
1999Nonresident3812.63%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
1998Resident8344.82%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
1998Nonresident1218.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree8%

Why some residency rates are blank. Idaho changed what its residency permit columns count around the 2019 season without renaming them. Before, they cover both application choices; from 2019, first choice only. The applicant columns are first-choice-only throughout. So on an older row where permits went to second-choice hunters, dividing one by the other counts winners the denominator never counted — on one 1998 deer hunt that arithmetic gives 250%. Rather than publish that, or pick an era and apply it to every row, this site reads which meaning each row's own totals support and leaves the rate empty where the two do not match.

IDFG's own figure is the percentage the department publishes alongside its counts. It is a rounded summary and it disagrees with its own rows: on the 1998 hunt above it reads 100. It is shown because the department publishes it and a reader will meet it elsewhere, not because it answers the question this page is about.

Where Idaho's own figures disagree with each other

  • IDFG printed 5 different area labels for california-sheep hunt 7001 across the seasons it published (40, 41, 41*, 41-1, 41-1*). Neither its label nor its internal area key is an identity, so this site shows what the department printed for each season and asserts nothing about whether the ground is the same.

Nothing above is corrected. Correcting it would mean publishing a figure the department never stated.

Sources for this hunt

Nearby hunt numbers

Idaho grants no preference to previously unsuccessful applicants, so nothing on this page accumulates and nothing here predicts next season. See how these numbers are produced and checked, or the Idaho application deadlines.