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Idaho · Deer · Hunt 1146

Idaho deer controlled hunt 1146

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 100 permits on hunt 1146 in 2026 and issued 100 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 128 hunters put it first and 100 drew, 78.13%.

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 13 of the 29 seasons Idaho offers, 2013 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
2026Second66A-1X740717.50%707
2026First66A-1X10012810078.13%230100
2025Second66A-1X22272281.48%12022
2025First66A-1X1009494100.00%11498
2024First142200—000
2023First142200—000
2022First11A211100.00%001
2020Second73-1X2444100.00%115
2020First73-1X503232100.00%7133
2019Second73-1X1199100.00%1110
2019First73-1X50525096.15%12050
2018Second68AX13313.03%001
2018First68AX502645018.94%11050
2017Second68AX13313.03%001
2017First68AX502345021.37%16050
2016Second63AX141061413.21%17014
2016First63AX20047020042.55%910200
2015Second63AX14731419.18%11014
2015First63AX20048120041.58%1060200
2014First36B100—000
2013First50100—000

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 66A-1X, 14, 11A, 73-1X, 68AX, 63AX, 36B, 50. 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
2026SecondResident39717.95%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree18%
2026SecondNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2026FirstResident1239577.24%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree77%
2026FirstNonresident55100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2025SecondResident272281.48%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree81%
2025SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2025FirstResident9292100.00%first choice only100%
2025FirstNonresident22100.00%first choice only100%
2024FirstResident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2024FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2023FirstResident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2023FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2022FirstResident11100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2022FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2020SecondResident44100.00%first choice only100%
2020SecondNonresident00—first choice only0%
2020FirstResident3232100.00%first choice only100%
2020FirstNonresident00—first choice only0%
2019SecondResident99100.00%first choice only100%
2019SecondNonresident00—first choice only0%
2019FirstResident525096.15%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree96%
2019FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2018SecondResident3213.13%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2018SecondNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2018FirstResident2645018.94%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree19%
2018FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2017SecondResident3313.03%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2017SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2017FirstResident2345021.37%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree21%
2017FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2016SecondResident1061413.21%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree13%
2016SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2016FirstResident47020042.55%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree43%
2016FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2015SecondResident731419.18%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree19%
2015SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2015FirstResident48120041.58%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree42%
2015FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2014FirstResident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2014FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2013FirstResident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2013FirstNonresident00—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 8 different area labels for deer hunt 1146 across the seasons it published (11A, 14, 36B, 50, 63AX, 66A-1X, 68AX, 73-1X). 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-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-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2022 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-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

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.