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Idaho · Deer · Hunt 1121

Idaho deer controlled hunt 1121

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 300 permits on hunt 1121 in 2026 and issued 202, so it did not fill. In the first application period, 180 hunters put it first and 180 drew, 100.00%. A further 22 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 17 of the 29 seasons Idaho offers, 2010 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
2026Second1-1X1175151100.00%631364
2026First1-1X300180180100.00%23222202
2025Second1-1X822929100.00%34736
2025First1-1X300212212100.00%22226238
2024Second3-1X21842125.00%37021
2024First3-1X15029915050.17%1400150
2023Second3-1X10541018.52%16010
2023First3-1X15029015051.72%990150
2022Second3-1X841819.51%2608
2022First3-1X15027815053.96%1110150
2021Second2-1X21292172.41%21021
2021First2-1X300299299100.00%1821300
2020Second36A-1X5077100.00%007
2020First36A-1X753030100.00%2131
2019Second36A-1X5399100.00%1110
2019First36A-1X752626100.00%4228
2018Second39-1X68866.82%206
2018First39-1X10035510028.17%80100
2017Second39-1X25723.51%702
2017First39-1X10030910032.36%270100
2016Second55-1511754.27%805
2016First55-1502395020.92%78050
2015Second55-111516.67%601
2015First55-1502745018.25%56050
2014Second15X*10771012.99%21010
2014First15X*10029410034.01%1070100
2013Second38X12150.00%401
2013First38X10211047.62%19010
2012First11A222100.00%002
2011First50100—000
2010First5518112.50%801

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 1-1X, 3-1X, 2-1X, 36A-1X, 39-1X, 55-1, 15X*, 38X, 11A, 50, 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.
SeasonPeriodResidencyPut it firstPermitsDraw rateWhat the permit count coversIDFG's own figure
2026SecondResident4949100.00%first choice only100%
2026SecondNonresident22100.00%first choice only100%
2026FirstResident177177100.00%first choice only100%
2026FirstNonresident33100.00%first choice only100%
2025SecondResident2828100.00%first choice only100%
2025SecondNonresident11100.00%first choice only100%
2025FirstResident210210100.00%first choice only100%
2025FirstNonresident22100.00%first choice only100%
2024SecondResident842125.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree25%
2024SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2024FirstResident29814950.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree50%
2024FirstNonresident11100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2023SecondResident541018.52%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree19%
2023SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2023FirstResident28915051.90%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree52%
2023FirstNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2022SecondResident41819.51%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree20%
2022SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2022FirstResident27614953.99%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree54%
2022FirstNonresident2150.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree50%
2021SecondResident292172.41%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree72%
2021SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2021FirstResident297297100.00%first choice only100%
2021FirstNonresident22100.00%first choice only100%
2020SecondResident77100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2020SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2020FirstResident3030100.00%first choice only100%
2020FirstNonresident00—first choice only0%
2019SecondResident99100.00%first choice only100%
2019SecondNonresident00—first choice only0%
2019FirstResident2626100.00%first choice only100%
2019FirstNonresident00—first choice only0%
2018SecondResident8866.82%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2018SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2018FirstResident3539827.76%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree28%
2018FirstNonresident22100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2017SecondResident5723.51%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2017SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2017FirstResident30910032.36%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree32%
2017FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2016SecondResident10754.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2016SecondNonresident1000.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2016FirstResident2184520.64%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree21%
2016FirstNonresident21523.81%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree24%
2015SecondResident1417.14%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2015SecondNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2015FirstResident2324519.40%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree19%
2015FirstNonresident42511.90%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree12%
2014SecondResident761013.16%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree13%
2014SecondNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2014FirstResident2939933.79%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree34%
2014FirstNonresident11100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2013SecondResident2150.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree50%
2013SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2013FirstResident211047.62%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree48%
2013FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2012FirstResident22100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2012FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2011FirstResident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2011FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2010FirstResident7114.29%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree14%
2010FirstNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%

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 11 different area labels for deer hunt 1121 across the seasons it published (1-1X, 11A, 15X*, 2-1X, 3-1X, 36A-1X, 38X, 39-1X, 50, 55, 55-1). 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

  • 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-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-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-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

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.