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Idaho elk controlled hunt 2122

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 2122 in 2026 and issued 50 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 574 hunters put it first and 50 drew, 8.71%.

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 28 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	39	3	167	3	1.80%	35	0	3
2026	First	39	50	574	50	8.71%	308	0	50
2025	Second	39	2	118	2	1.69%	40	0	2
2025	First	39	50	463	50	10.80%	254	0	50
2024	Second	22	70	26	26	100.00%	24	22	48
2024	First	22	150	37	37	100.00%	92	75	112
2023	Second	22	64	34	34	100.00%	30	29	63
2023	First	22	150	36	36	100.00%	79	64	100
2022	First	44	25	376	25	6.65%	154	0	25
2021	Second	44	2	132	2	1.52%	25	0	2
2021	First	44	25	302	25	8.28%	149	0	25
2020	Second	62-1	5	148	5	3.38%	27	0	5
2020	First	62-1	150	600	150	25.00%	277	0	150
2019	Second	62-1	2	84	2	2.38%	29	0	2
2019	First	62-1	150	613	150	24.47%	268	0	150
2018	Second	48-2	7	30	7	23.33%	21	0	7
2018	First	48-2	150	123	123	100.00%	220	27	150
2017	Second	48-2	11	43	11	25.58%	24	0	11
2017	First	48-2	150	104	104	100.00%	164	46	150
2016	Second	50-3	21	55	21	38.18%	51	0	21
2016	First	50-3	200	79	79	100.00%	304	121	200
2015	Second	50-3	13	39	13	33.33%	21	0	13
2015	First	50-3	200	91	91	100.00%	272	109	200
2014	Second	61	5	65	5	7.69%	46	0	5
2014	First	61	100	211	100	47.39%	206	0	100
2013	Second	59*	10	237	10	4.22%	75	0	10
2013	First	59*	200	692	200	28.90%	418	0	200
2012	Second	3	19	164	19	11.59%	19	0	19
2012	First	3	200	390	200	51.28%	78	0	200
2010	First	28	25	95	25	26.32%	10	0	25
2009	Second	66*	12	122	12	9.84%	9	0	12
2009	First	66*	200	440	200	45.45%	43	0	200
2008	Second	36A	5	6	5	83.33%	2	0	5
2008	First	36A	25	34	25	73.53%	17	0	25
2007	Second	62A	7	34	7	20.59%	41	0	7
2007	First	62A	150	286	150	52.45%	274	0	150
2006	Second	62*	24	67	24	35.82%	36	0	24
2006	First	62*	281	321	281	87.54%	161	0	281
2005	Second	1	2	2	2	100.00%	0	0	2
2005	First	1	25	33	25	75.76%	3	0	25
2004	First	54	15	214	15	7.01%	35	0	15
2003	First	62	281	385	281	72.99%	210	0	281
2002	First	54	15	103	15	14.56%	14	0	15
2001	First	62A-2	250	380	250	65.79%	304	0	250
2000	First	4	20	108	20	18.52%	21	0	20
1999	First	64	125	66	66	100.00%	117	55	121
1998	First	60-3	250	225	225	100.00%	437	25	250

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 39, 22, 44, 62-1, 48-2, 50-3, 61, 59*, 3, 28, 66*, 36A, 62A, 62*, 1, 54, 62, 62A-2, 4, 64, 60-3. 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	154	3	1.95%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2026	Second	Nonresident	13	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2026	First	Resident	414	45	10.87%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	11%
2026	First	Nonresident	160	5	3.13%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	3%
2025	Second	Resident	108	2	1.85%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2025	Second	Nonresident	10	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2025	First	Resident	391	45	11.51%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	12%
2025	First	Nonresident	72	5	6.94%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	7%
2024	Second	Resident	23	23	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2024	Second	Nonresident	3	3	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2024	First	Resident	37	37	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2024	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	first choice only	0%
2023	Second	Resident	32	32	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2023	Second	Nonresident	2	2	100.00%	first choice only	1400%
2023	First	Resident	36	36	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2023	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	first choice only	0%
2022	First	Resident	281	23	8.19%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2022	First	Nonresident	95	2	2.11%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2021	Second	Resident	118	2	1.69%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2021	Second	Nonresident	14	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2021	First	Resident	236	23	9.75%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	10%
2021	First	Nonresident	66	2	3.03%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	3%
2020	Second	Resident	134	5	3.73%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	4%
2020	Second	Nonresident	14	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2020	First	Resident	568	143	25.18%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	25%
2020	First	Nonresident	32	7	21.88%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	22%
2019	Second	Resident	76	1	1.32%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2019	Second	Nonresident	8	1	12.50%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	12%
2019	First	Resident	575	141	24.52%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	25%
2019	First	Nonresident	38	9	23.68%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	24%
2018	Second	Resident	30	7	23.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	23%
2018	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2018	First	Resident	111	135	—	both draw choices	100%
2018	First	Nonresident	12	15	—	both draw choices	100%
2017	Second	Resident	39	10	25.64%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	26%
2017	Second	Nonresident	4	1	25.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	25%
2017	First	Resident	101	145	—	both draw choices	100%
2017	First	Nonresident	3	5	—	both draw choices	100%
2016	Second	Resident	55	21	38.18%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	38%
2016	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2016	First	Resident	78	198	—	both draw choices	100%
2016	First	Nonresident	1	2	—	both draw choices	100%
2015	Second	Resident	36	12	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2015	Second	Nonresident	3	1	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2015	First	Resident	91	199	—	both draw choices	100%
2015	First	Nonresident	0	1	—	both draw choices	0%
2014	Second	Resident	61	5	8.20%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2014	Second	Nonresident	4	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2014	First	Resident	206	97	47.09%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	47%
2014	First	Nonresident	5	3	60.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	60%
2013	Second	Resident	234	8	3.42%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	3%
2013	Second	Nonresident	3	2	66.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	67%
2013	First	Resident	685	196	28.61%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	29%
2013	First	Nonresident	7	4	57.14%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	57%
2012	Second	Resident	158	18	11.39%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	11%
2012	Second	Nonresident	6	1	16.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	17%
2012	First	Resident	376	193	51.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	51%
2012	First	Nonresident	14	7	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2010	First	Resident	89	23	25.84%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	26%
2010	First	Nonresident	6	2	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2009	Second	Resident	121	12	9.92%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	10%
2009	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2009	First	Resident	427	193	45.20%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	45%
2009	First	Nonresident	13	7	53.85%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	54%
2008	Second	Resident	5	4	80.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	80%
2008	Second	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2008	First	Resident	30	23	76.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	77%
2008	First	Nonresident	4	2	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2007	Second	Resident	33	7	21.21%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	21%
2007	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2007	First	Resident	277	146	52.71%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	53%
2007	First	Nonresident	9	4	44.44%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	44%
2006	Second	Resident	64	24	37.50%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	38%
2006	Second	Nonresident	3	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2006	First	Resident	304	264	86.84%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	87%
2006	First	Nonresident	17	17	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2005	Second	Resident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2005	Second	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2005	First	Resident	26	23	88.46%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	88%
2005	First	Nonresident	7	2	28.57%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	29%
2004	First	Resident	203	14	6.90%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2004	First	Nonresident	11	1	9.09%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	9%
2003	First	Resident	364	265	72.80%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	72%
2003	First	Nonresident	21	16	76.19%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	76%
2002	First	Resident	94	14	14.89%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	14%
2002	First	Nonresident	9	1	11.11%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	11%
2001	First	Resident	339	225	66.37%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	66%
2001	First	Nonresident	41	25	60.98%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	61%
2000	First	Resident	105	19	18.10%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	18%
2000	First	Nonresident	3	1	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
1999	First	Resident	66	121	—	both draw choices	100%
1999	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	100%
1998	First	Resident	223	248	—	both draw choices	100%
1998	First	Nonresident	2	2	—	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 21 different area labels for elk hunt 2122 across the seasons it published (1, 22, 28, 3, 36A, 39, 4, 44, 48-2, 50-3, 54, 59*, 60-3, 61, 62, 62*, 62-1, 62A, 62A-2, 64, 66*). 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-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/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-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.