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Idaho elk controlled hunt 2065

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 75 permits on hunt 2065 in 2026 and issued 42, so it did not fill. In the first application period, 18 hunters put it first and 18 drew, 100.00%. A further 24 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 29 of the 29 seasons Idaho offers, 1998 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	23-2	47	7	7	100.00%	11	8	15
2026	First	23-2	75	18	18	100.00%	33	24	42
2025	Second	23-2	47	5	5	100.00%	12	12	17
2025	First	23-2	75	19	19	100.00%	30	20	39
2024	Second	23-3	4	3	3	100.00%	9	1	4
2024	First	23-3	40	23	23	100.00%	39	17	40
2023	Second	23-3	5	10	5	50.00%	7	0	5
2023	First	23-3	40	34	33	97.06%	45	7	40
2022	Second	22-1	7	196	7	3.57%	35	0	7
2022	First	22-1	200	606	200	33.00%	276	0	200
2021	Second	22-1	8	132	8	6.06%	21	0	8
2021	First	22-1	200	489	200	40.90%	292	0	200
2020	Second	22-1	6	137	6	4.38%	51	0	6
2020	First	22-1	200	584	200	34.25%	328	0	200
2019	Second	22-1	6	133	6	4.51%	46	0	6
2019	First	22-1	200	638	200	31.35%	369	0	200
2018	Second	13	67	47	47	100.00%	51	20	67
2018	First	13	250	54	54	100.00%	413	142	196
2017	Second	13	66	48	48	100.00%	55	18	66
2017	First	13	250	54	54	100.00%	419	155	209
2016	Second	19A	2	18	2	11.11%	7	0	2
2016	First	19A	25	60	25	41.67%	13	0	25
2015	Second	19A	3	18	3	16.67%	4	0	3
2015	First	19A	25	47	25	53.19%	25	0	25
2014	Second	22-1*	162	82	82	100.00%	60	41	123
2014	First	22-1*	400	188	188	100.00%	360	70	258
2013	Second	22-1	7	36	7	19.44%	6	0	7
2013	First	22-1	250	291	250	85.91%	221	0	250
2012	Second	23-2	3	32	3	9.38%	17	0	3
2012	First	23-2	30	90	30	33.33%	99	0	30
2011	Second	23-2	2	8	2	25.00%	9	0	2
2011	First	23-2	50	99	50	50.51%	90	0	50
2010	Second	23-3	3	31	3	9.68%	4	0	3
2010	First	23-3	50	121	50	41.32%	40	0	50
2009	Second	24-1	20	41	20	48.78%	6	0	20
2009	First	24-1	300	260	260	100.00%	103	40	300
2008	Second	23-4	8	11	8	72.73%	3	0	8
2008	First	23-4	100	86	86	100.00%	48	14	100
2007	Second	23-4	16	10	10	100.00%	8	6	16
2007	First	23-4	100	67	67	100.00%	51	26	93
2006	Second	23-4	57	2	2	100.00%	1	0	2
2006	First	23-4	75	17	17	100.00%	14	2	19
2005	Second	24-1	27	65	27	41.54%	12	0	27
2005	First	24-1	300	386	300	77.72%	147	0	300
2004	Second	24-1	18	37	18	48.65%	21	0	18
2004	First	24-1	300	410	300	73.17%	192	0	300
2003	First	24-2	150	253	150	59.29%	162	0	150
2002	First	25	125	272	125	45.96%	78	0	125
2001	First	28	125	264	125	47.35%	137	0	125
2000	First	28	350	484	350	72.31%	193	0	350
1999	First	22-2	100	135	100	74.07%	88	0	100
1998	First	22-2	100	140	100	71.43%	171	0	100

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 23-2, 23-3, 22-1, 13, 19A, 22-1*, 24-1, 23-4, 24-2, 25, 28, 22-2. 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	6	6	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2026	Second	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2026	First	Resident	17	17	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2026	First	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2025	Second	Resident	4	4	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2025	Second	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2025	First	Resident	14	14	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2025	First	Nonresident	5	5	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2024	Second	Resident	2	2	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2024	Second	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2024	First	Resident	21	21	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2024	First	Nonresident	2	2	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2023	Second	Resident	10	5	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2023	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2023	First	Resident	29	29	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2023	First	Nonresident	5	4	80.00%	first choice only	80%
2022	Second	Resident	187	7	3.74%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	4%
2022	Second	Nonresident	9	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2022	First	Resident	591	194	32.83%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2022	First	Nonresident	15	6	40.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	40%
2021	Second	Resident	128	7	5.47%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	5%
2021	Second	Nonresident	4	1	25.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	25%
2021	First	Resident	480	195	40.63%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	41%
2021	First	Nonresident	9	5	55.56%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	56%
2020	Second	Resident	131	6	4.58%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	5%
2020	Second	Nonresident	6	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2020	First	Resident	572	197	34.44%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	34%
2020	First	Nonresident	12	3	25.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	25%
2019	Second	Resident	132	6	4.55%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	5%
2019	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2019	First	Resident	626	195	31.15%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	31%
2019	First	Nonresident	12	5	41.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	42%
2018	Second	Resident	25	39	—	both draw choices	100%
2018	Second	Nonresident	22	28	—	both draw choices	127%
2018	First	Resident	32	171	—	both draw choices	100%
2018	First	Nonresident	22	25	—	both draw choices	100%
2017	Second	Resident	36	44	—	both draw choices	122%
2017	Second	Nonresident	12	22	—	both draw choices	183%
2017	First	Resident	42	184	—	both draw choices	100%
2017	First	Nonresident	12	25	—	both draw choices	100%
2016	Second	Resident	11	1	9.09%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	9%
2016	Second	Nonresident	7	1	14.29%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	14%
2016	First	Resident	44	23	52.27%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	52%
2016	First	Nonresident	16	2	12.50%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	12%
2015	Second	Resident	17	3	17.65%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	18%
2015	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2015	First	Resident	40	23	57.50%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	57%
2015	First	Nonresident	7	2	28.57%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	29%
2014	Second	Resident	81	121	—	both draw choices	100%
2014	Second	Nonresident	1	2	—	both draw choices	100%
2014	First	Resident	180	249	—	both draw choices	100%
2014	First	Nonresident	8	9	—	both draw choices	100%
2013	Second	Resident	36	7	19.44%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	19%
2013	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2013	First	Resident	280	240	85.71%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	86%
2013	First	Nonresident	11	10	90.91%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	91%
2012	Second	Resident	31	3	9.68%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	10%
2012	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2012	First	Resident	83	27	32.53%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2012	First	Nonresident	7	3	42.86%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	43%
2011	Second	Resident	8	2	25.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	25%
2011	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2011	First	Resident	97	50	51.55%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	52%
2011	First	Nonresident	2	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2010	Second	Resident	29	3	10.34%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	10%
2010	Second	Nonresident	2	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2010	First	Resident	117	48	41.03%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	41%
2010	First	Nonresident	4	2	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2009	Second	Resident	40	20	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2009	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2009	First	Resident	256	296	—	both draw choices	100%
2009	First	Nonresident	4	4	—	both draw choices	100%
2008	Second	Resident	11	8	72.73%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	73%
2008	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2008	First	Resident	85	98	—	both draw choices	100%
2008	First	Nonresident	1	2	—	both draw choices	100%
2007	Second	Resident	10	16	—	both draw choices	100%
2007	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2007	First	Resident	65	90	—	both draw choices	100%
2007	First	Nonresident	2	3	—	both draw choices	100%
2006	Second	Resident	2	2	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2006	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2006	First	Resident	16	18	—	both draw choices	100%
2006	First	Nonresident	1	1	—	both draw choices	100%
2005	Second	Resident	63	25	39.68%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	40%
2005	Second	Nonresident	2	2	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2005	First	Resident	377	295	78.25%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	78%
2005	First	Nonresident	9	5	55.56%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	56%
2004	Second	Resident	37	18	48.65%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	48%
2004	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2004	First	Resident	409	300	73.35%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	73%
2004	First	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2003	First	Resident	243	141	58.02%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	58%
2003	First	Nonresident	10	9	90.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	90%
2002	First	Resident	260	119	45.77%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	45%
2002	First	Nonresident	12	6	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2001	First	Resident	249	120	48.19%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	48%
2001	First	Nonresident	15	5	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2000	First	Resident	459	331	72.11%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	72%
2000	First	Nonresident	25	19	76.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	76%
1999	First	Resident	134	99	73.88%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	73%
1999	First	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
1998	First	Resident	140	100	71.43%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	71%
1998	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%

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 elk hunt 2065 across the seasons it published (13, 19A, 22-1, 22-1*, 22-2, 23-2, 23-3, 23-4, 24-1, 24-2, 25, 28). 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

elk/2026-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2026 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2026-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2026 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2025-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2025 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2025-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2025 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2024-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2024 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2024-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2024 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2023-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2023 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2023-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2023 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2022-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2022 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2022-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2022 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2021-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2021 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2021-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2021 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2020-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2020 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2020-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2020 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2019-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2019 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2019-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2019 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2018-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2018 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2018-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2018 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2017-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2017 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2017-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2017 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2016-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2016 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2016-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2016 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2015-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2015 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2015-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2015 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2014-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2014 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2014-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2014 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2013-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2013 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2013-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2013 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2012-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2012 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2012-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2012 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2011-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2011 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2011-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2011 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2010-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2010 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2010-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2010 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2009-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2009 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2009-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2009 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2008-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2008 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2008-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2008 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2007-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2007 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2007-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2007 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2006-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2006 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2006-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2006 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2005-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2005 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2005-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2005 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2004-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2004 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2004-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2004 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2003-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2003 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2002-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2002 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2001-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2001 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2000-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2000 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/1999-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 1999 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/1998-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 1998 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.