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Idaho deer controlled hunt 1117

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 125 permits on hunt 1117 in 2026 and issued 125 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 115 hunters put it first and 113 drew, 98.26%. A further 12 permits went to hunters who had named it as their second choice.

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 18 of the 29 seasons Idaho offers, 2009 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	Second	14X	12	30	12	40.00%	37	0	12
2026	First	14X	125	115	113	98.26%	143	12	125
2025	Second	14X	11	35	11	31.43%	39	0	11
2025	First	14X	125	88	88	100.00%	126	37	125
2024	Second	14X	14	27	14	51.85%	47	0	14
2024	First	14X	125	81	81	100.00%	117	44	125
2023	Second	14X	16	25	16	64.00%	20	0	16
2023	First	14X	125	105	105	100.00%	97	20	125
2022	Second	39-1X	5	133	5	3.76%	5	0	5
2022	First	39-1X	70	418	70	16.75%	7	0	70
2021	Second	36A-1X	55	5	5	100.00%	0	0	5
2021	First	36A-1X	75	23	23	100.00%	5	2	25
2020	Second	70	2	12	2	16.67%	4	0	2
2020	First	70	50	42	42	100.00%	15	8	50
2019	Second	70	12	3	3	100.00%	0	0	3
2019	First	70	50	32	32	100.00%	15	9	41
2018	Second	55-1	2	2	2	100.00%	4	0	2
2018	First	55-1	50	32	32	100.00%	67	18	50
2017	Second	55-1	4	7	4	57.14%	1	0	4
2017	First	55-1	50	31	31	100.00%	67	19	50
2016	First	47	50	94	50	53.19%	45	0	50
2015	First	47	50	105	50	47.62%	34	0	50
2014	Second	8AX*	20	134	20	14.93%	89	0	20
2014	First	8AX*	350	605	350	57.85%	548	0	350
2013	Second	21X*	9	92	9	9.78%	5	0	9
2013	First	21X*	160	363	160	44.08%	8	0	160
2012	Second	68AX	7	60	7	11.67%	3	0	7
2012	First	68AX	100	230	100	43.48%	15	0	100
2011	First	42	1	1	1	100.00%	3	0	1
2010	First	47-3*	1	1	1	100.00%	0	0	1
2009	First	55	1	7	1	14.29%	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 14X, 39-1X, 36A-1X, 70, 55-1, 47, 8AX*, 21X*, 68AX, 42, 47-3*, 55. 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	Second	Resident	29	12	41.38%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	41%
2026	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2026	First	Resident	102	102	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2026	First	Nonresident	13	11	84.62%	first choice only	85%
2025	Second	Resident	34	10	29.41%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	29%
2025	Second	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2025	First	Resident	77	77	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2025	First	Nonresident	11	11	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2024	Second	Resident	24	12	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2024	Second	Nonresident	3	2	66.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	67%
2024	First	Resident	81	81	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2024	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	first choice only	0%
2023	Second	Resident	24	15	62.50%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	62%
2023	Second	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2023	First	Resident	102	102	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2023	First	Nonresident	3	3	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2022	Second	Resident	133	5	3.76%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	4%
2022	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2022	First	Resident	417	70	16.79%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	17%
2022	First	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2021	Second	Resident	5	5	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2021	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2021	First	Resident	23	23	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2021	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	first choice only	0%
2020	Second	Resident	12	2	16.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	17%
2020	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2020	First	Resident	42	42	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2020	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	first choice only	0%
2019	Second	Resident	3	3	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2019	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2019	First	Resident	32	32	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2019	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	first choice only	0%
2018	Second	Resident	2	2	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2018	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2018	First	Resident	31	46	—	both draw choices	100%
2018	First	Nonresident	1	4	—	both draw choices	100%
2017	Second	Resident	7	4	57.14%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	57%
2017	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2017	First	Resident	30	49	—	both draw choices	100%
2017	First	Nonresident	1	1	—	both draw choices	100%
2016	First	Resident	85	47	55.29%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	55%
2016	First	Nonresident	9	3	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2015	First	Resident	100	49	49.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	49%
2015	First	Nonresident	5	1	20.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	20%
2014	Second	Resident	134	20	14.93%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	15%
2014	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2014	First	Resident	602	348	57.81%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	58%
2014	First	Nonresident	3	2	66.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	67%
2013	Second	Resident	92	9	9.78%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	10%
2013	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2013	First	Resident	363	160	44.08%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	44%
2013	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2012	Second	Resident	60	7	11.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	12%
2012	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2012	First	Resident	230	100	43.48%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	43%
2012	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2011	First	Resident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2011	First	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2010	First	Resident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2010	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2009	First	Resident	6	1	16.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	17%
2009	First	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%

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 12 different area labels for deer hunt 1117 across the seasons it published (14X, 21X*, 36A-1X, 39-1X, 42, 47, 47-3*, 55, 55-1, 68AX, 70, 8AX*). 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-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2026 season, fetched 2026-09-03
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-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-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2023 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-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2020 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-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-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2014 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-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2011 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-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2009 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.