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Idaho elk controlled hunt 2079

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 2079 in 2026 and issued 100 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 196 hunters put it first and 100 drew, 51.02%.

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	37	6	67	6	8.96%	42	0	6
2026	First	37	100	196	100	51.02%	172	0	100
2025	Second	37	13	92	13	14.13%	43	0	13
2025	First	37	100	196	100	51.02%	163	0	100
2024	Second	39-1	47	497	47	9.46%	162	0	47
2024	First	39-1	650	1,631	650	39.85%	717	0	650
2023	Second	39-1	20	469	20	4.26%	147	0	20
2023	First	39-1	650	1,685	650	38.58%	707	0	650
2022	Second	32A-1	1	25	1	4.00%	10	0	1
2022	First	32A-1	50	136	50	36.76%	120	0	50
2021	Second	32A-1	9	51	9	17.65%	17	0	9
2021	First	32A-1	50	151	50	33.11%	113	0	50
2020	Second	31	8	129	8	6.20%	31	0	8
2020	First	31	100	172	100	58.14%	231	0	100
2019	Second	31	4	40	4	10.00%	47	0	4
2019	First	31	100	128	100	78.13%	239	0	100
2018	Second	23-2	2	20	2	10.00%	4	0	2
2018	First	23-2	25	71	25	35.21%	36	0	25
2017	Second	23-2	1	13	1	7.69%	9	0	1
2017	First	23-2	25	68	25	36.76%	32	0	25
2016	Second	24-2	11	80	11	13.75%	32	0	11
2016	First	24-2	75	220	75	34.09%	128	0	75
2015	Second	24-2	2	39	2	5.13%	13	0	2
2015	First	24-2	75	220	75	34.09%	136	0	75
2014	First	30A-1*	50	25	25	100.00%	15	5	30
2013	Second	31-1	10	89	10	11.24%	45	0	10
2013	First	31-1	100	173	100	57.80%	297	0	100
2012	Second	32A-1	15	61	15	24.59%	24	0	15
2012	First	32A-1	200	276	200	72.46%	141	0	200
2011	Second	32-1	10	66	10	15.15%	31	0	10
2011	First	32-1	200	312	200	64.10%	114	0	200
2010	Second	32A	5	91	5	5.49%	35	0	5
2010	First	32A	100	298	100	33.56%	285	0	100
2009	Second	32A	1	40	1	2.50%	28	0	1
2009	First	32A	100	560	100	17.86%	312	0	100
2008	Second	32A	17	63	17	26.98%	49	0	17
2008	First	32A	200	255	200	78.43%	258	0	200
2007	Second	32A	13	45	13	28.89%	20	0	13
2007	First	32A	200	266	200	75.19%	207	0	200
2006	Second	32A	13	37	13	35.14%	24	0	13
2006	First	32A	200	279	200	71.68%	128	0	200
2005	Second	32A	6	71	6	8.45%	38	0	6
2005	First	32A	100	342	100	29.24%	251	0	100
2004	Second	32A	4	80	4	5.00%	45	0	4
2004	First	32A	100	536	100	18.66%	277	0	100
2003	First	33-1	100	192	100	52.08%	62	0	100
2002	First	36A-1	150	78	76	97.44%	100	32	108
2001	First	36A-1	150	80	80	100.00%	99	43	123
2000	First	36A-1	150	55	55	100.00%	95	31	86
1999	First	31-2	150	193	150	77.72%	194	0	150
1998	First	30A-2	75	62	62	100.00%	115	13	75

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 37, 39-1, 32A-1, 31, 23-2, 24-2, 30A-1*, 31-1, 32-1, 32A, 33-1, 36A-1, 31-2, 30A-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	61	5	8.20%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2026	Second	Nonresident	6	1	16.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	17%
2026	First	Resident	169	90	53.25%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	53%
2026	First	Nonresident	27	10	37.04%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	37%
2025	Second	Resident	78	11	14.10%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	14%
2025	Second	Nonresident	14	2	14.29%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	14%
2025	First	Resident	170	90	52.94%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	53%
2025	First	Nonresident	26	10	38.46%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	38%
2024	Second	Resident	471	45	9.55%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	10%
2024	Second	Nonresident	26	2	7.69%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2024	First	Resident	1,535	615	40.07%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	40%
2024	First	Nonresident	96	35	36.46%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	36%
2023	Second	Resident	454	19	4.19%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	4%
2023	Second	Nonresident	15	1	6.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2023	First	Resident	1,582	611	38.62%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	39%
2023	First	Nonresident	103	39	37.86%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	38%
2022	Second	Resident	23	1	4.35%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	4%
2022	Second	Nonresident	2	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2022	First	Resident	134	49	36.57%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	37%
2022	First	Nonresident	2	1	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2021	Second	Resident	51	9	17.65%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	18%
2021	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2021	First	Resident	150	49	32.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2021	First	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2020	Second	Resident	126	7	5.56%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2020	Second	Nonresident	3	1	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2020	First	Resident	166	97	58.43%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	58%
2020	First	Nonresident	6	3	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2019	Second	Resident	39	4	10.26%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	10%
2019	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2019	First	Resident	124	99	79.84%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	80%
2019	First	Nonresident	4	1	25.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	25%
2018	Second	Resident	19	2	10.53%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	11%
2018	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2018	First	Resident	69	25	36.23%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	36%
2018	First	Nonresident	2	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2017	Second	Resident	13	1	7.69%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2017	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2017	First	Resident	67	25	37.31%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	37%
2017	First	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2016	Second	Resident	80	11	13.75%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	14%
2016	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2016	First	Resident	217	73	33.64%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	34%
2016	First	Nonresident	3	2	66.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	67%
2015	Second	Resident	39	2	5.13%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	5%
2015	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2015	First	Resident	218	73	33.49%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2015	First	Nonresident	2	2	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2014	First	Resident	25	30	—	both draw choices	100%
2014	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2013	Second	Resident	88	10	11.36%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	11%
2013	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2013	First	Resident	169	99	58.58%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	59%
2013	First	Nonresident	4	1	25.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	25%
2012	Second	Resident	61	15	24.59%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	25%
2012	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2012	First	Resident	270	195	72.22%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	72%
2012	First	Nonresident	6	5	83.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	83%
2011	Second	Resident	62	10	16.13%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	16%
2011	Second	Nonresident	4	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2011	First	Resident	307	197	64.17%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	64%
2011	First	Nonresident	5	3	60.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	60%
2010	Second	Resident	90	5	5.56%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2010	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2010	First	Resident	290	97	33.45%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2010	First	Nonresident	8	3	37.50%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	38%
2009	Second	Resident	40	1	2.50%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2009	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2009	First	Resident	558	99	17.74%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	18%
2009	First	Nonresident	2	1	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2008	Second	Resident	63	17	26.98%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	27%
2008	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2008	First	Resident	248	194	78.23%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	78%
2008	First	Nonresident	7	6	85.71%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	86%
2007	Second	Resident	44	12	27.27%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	27%
2007	Second	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2007	First	Resident	257	191	74.32%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	74%
2007	First	Nonresident	9	9	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2006	Second	Resident	37	13	35.14%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	35%
2006	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2006	First	Resident	275	197	71.64%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	72%
2006	First	Nonresident	4	3	75.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	75%
2005	Second	Resident	71	6	8.45%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2005	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2005	First	Resident	328	97	29.57%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	30%
2005	First	Nonresident	14	3	21.43%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	21%
2004	Second	Resident	79	4	5.06%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	5%
2004	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2004	First	Resident	530	100	18.87%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	18%
2004	First	Nonresident	6	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2003	First	Resident	190	100	52.63%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	52%
2003	First	Nonresident	2	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2002	First	Resident	61	93	—	both draw choices	100%
2002	First	Nonresident	17	15	—	both draw choices	88%
2001	First	Resident	67	108	—	both draw choices	100%
2001	First	Nonresident	13	15	—	both draw choices	100%
2000	First	Resident	49	77	—	both draw choices	100%
2000	First	Nonresident	6	9	—	both draw choices	100%
1999	First	Resident	190	148	77.89%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	77%
1999	First	Nonresident	3	2	66.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	66%
1998	First	Resident	62	75	—	both draw choices	100%
1998	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	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 14 different area labels for elk hunt 2079 across the seasons it published (23-2, 24-2, 30A-1*, 30A-2, 31, 31-1, 31-2, 32-1, 32A, 32A-1, 33-1, 36A-1, 37, 39-1). 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

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-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.