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Idaho deer controlled hunt 1097

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 1097 in 2026 and issued 20 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 176 hunters put it first and 20 drew, 11.36%.

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 23 of the 29 seasons Idaho offers, 2001 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.
Season	Period	Area	Permits available	Put it first	Drew on first choice	First-choice draw rate	Put it second	Drew on second choice	Permits issued
2026	First	73A	20	176	20	11.36%	73	0	20
2025	Second	73A	1	46	1	2.17%	23	0	1
2025	First	73A	20	111	20	18.02%	71	0	20
2024	First	61	213	61	61	100.00%	161	152	213
2023	First	61	159	37	37	100.00%	139	122	159
2022	Second	52A	4	32	4	12.50%	12	0	4
2022	First	52A	75	79	68	86.08%	62	7	75
2021	Second	52A	4	37	4	10.81%	18	0	4
2021	First	52A	75	111	75	67.57%	80	0	75
2020	First	52	25	203	25	12.32%	95	0	25
2019	Second	52	1	85	1	1.18%	25	0	1
2019	First	52	25	209	25	11.96%	108	0	25
2018	Second	43	7	31	7	22.58%	10	0	7
2018	First	43	125	124	124	100.00%	86	1	125
2017	Second	43	12	35	12	34.29%	13	0	12
2017	First	43	125	125	117	93.60%	89	8	125
2016	Second	8A	17	2	2	100.00%	1	0	2
2016	First	8A	25	9	9	100.00%	3	1	10
2015	Second	8A	17	2	2	100.00%	2	1	3
2015	First	8A	25	15	15	100.00%	6	3	18
2014	First	21A	5	52	5	9.62%	12	0	5
2013	Second	43	30	29	29	100.00%	8	1	30
2013	First	43	125	68	68	100.00%	95	57	125
2012	Second	64*	1	29	1	3.45%	10	0	1
2012	First	64*	10	44	10	22.73%	37	0	10
2011	Second	16X	8	14	8	57.14%	12	0	8
2011	First	16X	100	120	100	83.33%	45	0	100
2010	Second	23X*	10	58	10	17.24%	8	0	10
2010	First	23X*	100	218	100	45.87%	31	0	100
2008	First	11	1	10	1	10.00%	1	0	1
2007	First	42	1	0	0	—	6	1	1
2004	First	75	6	6	6	100.00%	1	0	6
2003	First	55	1	1	1	100.00%	2	0	1
2002	First	50-1	4	4	4	100.00%	0	0	4
2001	First	55	1	1	1	100.00%	0	0	1

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.

The area label changes across seasons for this hunt number — Idaho printed 73A, 61, 52A, 52, 43, 8A, 21A, 64*, 16X, 23X*, 11, 42, 75, 55, 50-1. 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.
Season	Period	Residency	Put it first	Permits	Draw rate	What the permit count covers	IDFG's own figure
2026	First	Resident	140	18	12.86%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	13%
2026	First	Nonresident	36	2	5.56%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2025	Second	Resident	39	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2025	Second	Nonresident	7	1	14.29%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	14%
2025	First	Resident	95	18	18.95%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	19%
2025	First	Nonresident	16	2	12.50%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	12%
2024	First	Resident	53	53	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2024	First	Nonresident	8	8	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2023	First	Resident	34	34	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2023	First	Nonresident	3	3	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2022	Second	Resident	31	4	12.90%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	13%
2022	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2022	First	Resident	61	61	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2022	First	Nonresident	18	7	38.89%	first choice only	39%
2021	Second	Resident	31	4	12.90%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	13%
2021	Second	Nonresident	6	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2021	First	Resident	83	68	81.93%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	82%
2021	First	Nonresident	28	7	25.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	25%
2020	First	Resident	131	23	17.56%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	18%
2020	First	Nonresident	72	2	2.78%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	3%
2019	Second	Resident	62	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2019	Second	Nonresident	23	1	4.35%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	4%
2019	First	Resident	131	23	17.56%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	18%
2019	First	Nonresident	78	2	2.56%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	3%
2018	Second	Resident	29	6	20.69%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	21%
2018	Second	Nonresident	2	1	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2018	First	Resident	119	120	—	both draw choices	100%
2018	First	Nonresident	5	5	—	both draw choices	100%
2017	Second	Resident	29	10	34.48%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	34%
2017	Second	Nonresident	6	2	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2017	First	Resident	107	113	—	both draw choices	100%
2017	First	Nonresident	18	12	—	both draw choices	67%
2016	Second	Resident	2	2	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2016	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2016	First	Resident	9	10	—	both draw choices	100%
2016	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2015	Second	Resident	2	3	—	both draw choices	100%
2015	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2015	First	Resident	15	18	—	both draw choices	100%
2015	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2014	First	Resident	47	5	10.64%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	11%
2014	First	Nonresident	5	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2013	Second	Resident	27	28	—	both draw choices	100%
2013	Second	Nonresident	2	2	—	both draw choices	100%
2013	First	Resident	65	115	—	both draw choices	100%
2013	First	Nonresident	3	10	—	both draw choices	100%
2012	Second	Resident	28	1	3.57%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	4%
2012	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2012	First	Resident	44	10	22.73%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	23%
2012	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2011	Second	Resident	14	8	57.14%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	57%
2011	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2011	First	Resident	119	99	83.19%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	83%
2011	First	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2010	Second	Resident	58	10	17.24%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	17%
2010	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2010	First	Resident	215	99	46.05%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	46%
2010	First	Nonresident	3	1	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2008	First	Resident	9	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2008	First	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2007	First	Resident	0	1	—	both draw choices	0%
2007	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2004	First	Resident	2	2	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2004	First	Nonresident	4	4	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2003	First	Resident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2003	First	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2002	First	Resident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2002	First	Nonresident	3	3	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2001	First	Resident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2001	First	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%

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 15 different area labels for deer hunt 1097 across the seasons it published (11, 16X, 21A, 23X*, 42, 43, 50-1, 52, 52A, 55, 61, 64*, 73A, 75, 8A). 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-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2025 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-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-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2022 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-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2021 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-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2019 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-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2018 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-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2017 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-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2016 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-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2015 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-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2013 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/2008-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2008 season, fetched 2026-09-03
deer/2007-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2007 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

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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.