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Idaho deer controlled hunt 1050

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 2026 drawing did

Idaho offered 20 permits on hunt 1050 in 2026 and issued 20 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 398 hunters put it first and 20 drew, 5.03%.

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.

Published in 29 of the 29 seasons Idaho offers, 1998 to 2026.

Application period
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.
SeasonPeriodAreaPermits availablePut it firstDrew on first choiceFirst-choice draw ratePut it secondDrew on second choicePermits issued
2026First6220398205.03%404020
2025First6220359205.57%389020
2024Second62225420.79%8902
2024First6220418204.78%355020
2023First6220370205.41%331020
2022First6610317103.15%210010
2021First6610256103.91%187010
2020First66A512753.94%10905
2019First66A515553.23%12405
2018First66A515553.23%10805
2017First66A517452.87%12905
2016First66A512054.17%12405
2015First66A521652.31%13805
2014First73no cap1,1611,161100.00%1,0299072,068
2013First73no cap1,1701,170100.00%9148161,986
2012Second3115341544.12%8015
2012First31150106106100.00%9644150
2011Second3219951920.00%44019
2011First3222537122560.65%2630225
2010Second324236868100.00%322290
2010First32950505505100.00%27862567
2009Second311435555100.00%171671
2009First31300145145100.00%10234179
2008Second3225522548.08%17025
2008First3235038735090.44%2420350
2007Second4839333.33%303
2007First48503838100.00%481250
2006Second44-142804252.50%45042
2006First44-1450448448100.00%4722450
2005Second22222020100.00%11020
2005First22350337337100.00%11313350
2004Second11AX27682739.71%12027
2004First11AX450428428100.00%9911439
2003First11AX-130039830075.38%1760300
2002First10AX35037635093.09%850350
2001First11AX-21507171100.00%10033104
2000First16X10017710056.50%820100
1999First31-2250142142100.00%11033175
1998First60A-230035430084.75%2770300

Idaho draws each hunt twice. The first application period is where almost everybody applies; the second is a real second drawing for what is left. They are different competitions and nothing here averages them.

No cap is a hunt Idaho drew without a permit limit. Its data carries 99,999 and 999,999 as placeholders in the permits-available field and states nowhere what they mean, so no quota is shown rather than one of those figures.

The area label changes across seasons for this hunt number — Idaho printed 62, 66, 66A, 73, 31, 32, 48, 44-1, 22, 11AX, 11AX-1, 10AX, 11AX-2, 16X, 31-2, 60A-2. 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.
SeasonPeriodResidencyPut it firstPermitsDraw rateWhat the permit count coversIDFG's own figure
2026FirstResident379205.28%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2026FirstNonresident1900.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2025FirstResident340195.59%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2025FirstNonresident1915.26%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2024SecondResident24920.80%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2024SecondNonresident500.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2024FirstResident398205.03%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2024FirstNonresident2000.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2023FirstResident345185.22%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2023FirstNonresident2528.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree8%
2022FirstResident28593.16%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2022FirstNonresident3213.13%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2021FirstResident24693.66%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2021FirstNonresident10110.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree10%
2020FirstResident11754.27%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2020FirstNonresident1000.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2019FirstResident14453.47%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2019FirstNonresident1100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2018FirstResident13453.73%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2018FirstNonresident2100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2017FirstResident15342.61%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2017FirstNonresident2114.76%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2016FirstResident10854.63%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2016FirstNonresident1200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2015FirstResident19752.54%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2015FirstNonresident1900.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2014FirstResident8651,552—both draw choices100%
2014FirstNonresident296516—both draw choices100%
2013FirstResident9141,548—both draw choices100%
2013FirstNonresident256438—both draw choices100%
2012SecondResident341544.12%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree44%
2012SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2012FirstResident106150—both draw choices100%
2012FirstNonresident00—both draw choices0%
2011SecondResident951920.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree20%
2011SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2011FirstResident36622160.38%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree60%
2011FirstNonresident5480.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree80%
2010SecondResident6890—both draw choices100%
2010SecondNonresident00—both draw choices0%
2010FirstResident501563—both draw choices100%
2010FirstNonresident44—both draw choices100%
2009SecondResident5571—both draw choices100%
2009SecondNonresident00—both draw choices0%
2009FirstResident144178—both draw choices100%
2009FirstNonresident11—both draw choices100%
2008SecondResident492448.98%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree49%
2008SecondNonresident3133.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree33%
2008FirstResident38134791.08%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree91%
2008FirstNonresident6350.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree50%
2007SecondResident8337.50%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree38%
2007SecondNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2007FirstResident3547—both draw choices100%
2007FirstNonresident33—both draw choices100%
2006SecondResident774051.95%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree52%
2006SecondNonresident3266.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree67%
2006FirstResident444446—both draw choices100%
2006FirstNonresident44—both draw choices100%
2005SecondResident2020100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2005SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2005FirstResident336349—both draw choices100%
2005FirstNonresident11—both draw choices100%
2004SecondResident682739.71%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree39%
2004SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2004FirstResident425436—both draw choices100%
2004FirstNonresident33—both draw choices100%
2003FirstResident39729975.31%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree75%
2003FirstNonresident11100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2002FirstResident37534993.07%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree93%
2002FirstNonresident11100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2001FirstResident68101—both draw choices100%
2001FirstNonresident33—both draw choices100%
2000FirstResident1769956.25%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree56%
2000FirstNonresident11100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
1999FirstResident142175—both draw choices100%
1999FirstNonresident00—both draw choices100%
1998FirstResident35430084.75%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree84%
1998FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%

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.

At least one row here has hunters who applied and no rate. That is the case above, and the "what the permit count covers" column says which.

Where Idaho's own figures disagree with each other

  • IDFG printed 16 different area labels for deer hunt 1050 across the seasons it published (10AX, 11AX, 11AX-1, 11AX-2, 16X, 22, 31, 31-2, 32, 44-1, 48, 60A-2, 62, 66, 66A, 73). 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

  • deer/2026-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2026 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2025-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2025 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2024-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2024 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2024-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2024 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2023-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2023 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2022-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2022 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2021-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2021 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2020-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2020 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2019-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2019 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2018-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2018 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2017-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2017 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2016-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2016 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2015-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2015 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2014-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2014 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2013-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2013 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2012-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2012 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2012-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2012 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2011-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2011 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2011-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2011 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2010-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2010 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2010-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2010 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2009-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2009 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2009-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2009 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2008-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2008 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2008-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2008 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2007-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2007 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2007-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2007 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2006-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2006 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2006-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2006 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2005-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2005 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2005-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2005 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2004-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2004 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2004-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2004 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2003-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2003 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2002-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2002 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2001-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2001 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/2000-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2000 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/1999-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 1999 season, fetched 2026-09-03
  • deer/1998-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 1998 season, fetched 2026-09-03

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.