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Idaho · Deer · Hunt 1129

Idaho deer controlled hunt 1129

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 250 permits on hunt 1129 in 2026 and issued 250 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 285 hunters put it first and 250 drew, 87.72%.

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, 2012 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
2026Second14X18741824.32%32018
2026First14X25028525087.72%1900250
2025Second14X28842833.33%39028
2025First14X250222222100.00%18028250
2024Second21-1X11118119.32%6011
2024First21-1X15043415034.56%390150
2023Second21-1X10991010.10%10010
2023First21-1X15036315041.32%430150
2022Second21-1X11431125.58%4011
2022First21-1X15028715052.26%260150
2021Second15-1X55758.77%805
2021First15-1X10026710037.45%750100
2020Second8A-1X251762514.20%83025
2020First8A-1X35078735044.47%4380350
2019Second8A-1X251732514.45%106025
2019First8A-1X35068935050.80%4540350
2018Second10A-1X481394834.53%19048
2018First10A-1X80095180084.12%2330800
2017Second10A-1X391953920.00%25039
2017First10A-1X8001,14080070.18%2470800
2016Second3-1X15671522.39%15015
2016First3-1X30035930083.57%890300
2015Second3-1X646613.04%1406
2015First3-1X20025620078.13%830200
2014Second38X*313323.08%803
2014First38X*10461021.74%16010
2013First11A211100.00%001
2012First40515533.33%105

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, 21-1X, 15-1X, 8A-1X, 10A-1X, 3-1X, 38X*, 11A, 40. 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
2026SecondResident721723.61%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree24%
2026SecondNonresident2150.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree50%
2026FirstResident28124787.90%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree88%
2026FirstNonresident4375.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree75%
2025SecondResident832833.73%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree34%
2025SecondNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2025FirstResident218218100.00%first choice only100%
2025FirstNonresident44100.00%first choice only100%
2024SecondResident117119.40%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree9%
2024SecondNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2024FirstResident43014934.65%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree35%
2024FirstNonresident4125.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree25%
2023SecondResident9799.28%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree9%
2023SecondNonresident2150.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree50%
2023FirstResident35914841.23%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree41%
2023FirstNonresident4250.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree50%
2022SecondResident431125.58%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree26%
2022SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2022FirstResident28014752.50%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree52%
2022FirstNonresident7342.86%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree43%
2021SecondResident5758.77%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree9%
2021SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2021FirstResident2659937.36%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree37%
2021FirstNonresident2150.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree50%
2020SecondResident1732514.45%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree14%
2020SecondNonresident300.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2020FirstResident77634344.20%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree44%
2020FirstNonresident11763.64%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree64%
2019SecondResident1712414.04%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree14%
2019SecondNonresident2150.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree50%
2019FirstResident68134951.25%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree51%
2019FirstNonresident8112.50%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree12%
2018SecondResident1344533.58%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree34%
2018SecondNonresident5360.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree60%
2018FirstResident94279384.18%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree84%
2018FirstNonresident9777.78%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree78%
2017SecondResident1923819.79%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree20%
2017SecondNonresident3133.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree33%
2017FirstResident1,13479670.19%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree70%
2017FirstNonresident6466.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree67%
2016SecondResident661522.73%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree23%
2016SecondNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2016FirstResident35829983.52%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree84%
2016FirstNonresident11100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2015SecondResident46613.04%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree13%
2015SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2015FirstResident25519978.04%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree78%
2015FirstNonresident11100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2014SecondResident13323.08%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree23%
2014SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2014FirstResident461021.74%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree22%
2014FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2013FirstResident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2013FirstNonresident11100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2012FirstResident7228.57%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree29%
2012FirstNonresident8337.50%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree38%

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 1129 across the seasons it published (10A-1X, 11A, 14X, 15-1X, 21-1X, 3-1X, 38X*, 40, 8A-1X). 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-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

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.