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Idaho · Deer

Idaho deer draw odds

Every deer controlled hunt Idaho Fish and Game has published drawing odds for, 1998 to 2026. Pick a hunt to see how many hunters named it first and how many of them drew it, season by season.

Idaho runs no point system. Not for deer, not for any species — the department says so plainly and its published data has never carried a point, preference or bonus field in twenty-nine seasons. Every controlled hunt below is a straight random drawing among the hunters who applied that year, which means the published odds are the complete answer rather than one factor in it.

242 controlled hunts · 12,192 published residency rows · 29 seasons · both application periods.

Hunts 1000–1099

99 hunts, drawn between 1998 and 2026.

Hunts 1100–1199

85 hunts, drawn between 2007 and 2026.

Hunts 1500–1599

44 hunts, drawn between 1999 and 2003.

Hunts 1700–1799

13 hunts, drawn between 2002 and 2003.

Hunts 1900–1999

1 hunt, drawn between 2003 and 2003.

What Idaho publishes, and what it does not

Idaho Fish and Game publishes controlled hunt drawing odds back to 1998 — the longest run of any state on this site — with, for every hunt, the permits available, the hunters who named it first and second, how many of each drew, and a split of applicants and permits by residency.

What it does not publish is a firm results date, an explanation of the placeholder values in its permits-available field, or anything that settles whether a controlled hunt number refers to the same ground from one season to the next. Each hunt page says which of those touch it.