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Idaho · Deer · Hunt 1126

Idaho deer controlled hunt 1126

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 50 permits on hunt 1126 in 2026 and issued 50 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 266 hunters put it first and 50 drew, 18.80%.

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 15 of the 29 seasons Idaho offers, 2011 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
2026Second5-1X25623.57%1802
2026First5-1X502665018.80%60050
2025Second5-1X38733.45%1503
2025First5-1X503425014.62%56050
2024Second15-1X10571017.54%22010
2024First15-1X10024310041.15%410100
2023Second15-1X311327.27%1103
2023First15-1X10013410074.63%700100
2021Second10A-1X10188105.32%30010
2021First10A-1X30081930036.63%1780300
2020Second3-1X17721723.61%32017
2020First3-1X30040230074.63%1450300
2019Second3-1X17411741.46%18017
2019First3-1X30033130090.63%1440300
2018Second5-1X828828.57%2208
2018First5-1X10018510054.05%680100
2017Second5-1X419421.05%504
2017First5-1X10016610060.24%430100
2016Second39-1X58455.95%705
2016First39-1X10027610036.23%270100
2015Second39-1X55658.93%505
2015First39-1X10026510037.74%160100
2014Second38X*13133.33%001
2014First38X*10241041.67%4010
2013Second68AX171021716.67%0017
2013First68AX10028610034.97%100100
2012First33*12150.00%001
2011First7878787.50%107

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 5-1X, 15-1X, 10A-1X, 3-1X, 39-1X, 38X*, 68AX, 33*, 78. 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
2026SecondResident5423.70%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2026SecondNonresident200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2026FirstResident2594918.92%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree19%
2026FirstNonresident7114.29%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree14%
2025SecondResident8633.49%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2025SecondNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2025FirstResident3364914.58%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree15%
2025FirstNonresident6116.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree17%
2024SecondResident541018.52%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree19%
2024SecondNonresident300.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2024FirstResident2369841.53%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree42%
2024FirstNonresident7228.57%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree29%
2023SecondResident11327.27%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree27%
2023SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2023FirstResident1299875.97%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree76%
2023FirstNonresident5240.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree40%
2021SecondResident188105.32%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2021SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2021FirstResident80929636.59%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree37%
2021FirstNonresident10440.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree40%
2020SecondResident721723.61%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree24%
2020SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2020FirstResident39629474.24%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree74%
2020FirstNonresident66100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2019SecondResident411741.46%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree41%
2019SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2019FirstResident32929890.58%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree91%
2019FirstNonresident22100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2018SecondResident28828.57%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree29%
2018SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2018FirstResident1829954.40%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree54%
2018FirstNonresident3133.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree33%
2017SecondResident19421.05%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree21%
2017SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2017FirstResident1639759.51%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree60%
2017FirstNonresident33100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2016SecondResident8455.95%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2016SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2016FirstResident27610036.23%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree36%
2016FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2015SecondResident5658.93%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree9%
2015SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2015FirstResident26510037.74%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree38%
2015FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2014SecondResident3133.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree33%
2014SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2014FirstResident241041.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree42%
2014FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2013SecondResident1021716.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree17%
2013SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2013FirstResident28610034.97%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree35%
2013FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2012FirstResident2150.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree50%
2012FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2011FirstResident6583.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree83%
2011FirstNonresident22100.00%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.

Where Idaho's own figures disagree with each other

  • IDFG printed 9 different area labels for deer hunt 1126 across the seasons it published (10A-1X, 15-1X, 3-1X, 33*, 38X*, 39-1X, 5-1X, 68AX, 78). 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/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

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.