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Idaho elk controlled hunt 2283

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 25 permits on hunt 2283 in 2026 and issued 25 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 182 hunters put it first and 25 drew, 13.74%.

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 5 of the 29 seasons Idaho offers, 2018 to 2026.

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	Area	Permits available	Put it first	Drew on first choice	First-choice draw rate	Put it second	Permits issued
2026	51-1X	25	182	25	13.74%	44	25
2024	51-1X	25	182	25	13.74%	32	25
2022	51-1X	25	128	25	19.53%	48	25
2020	45X	100	925	100	10.81%	50	100
2018	63-1X	50	327	50	15.29%	30	50

The area label changes across seasons for this hunt number — Idaho printed 51-1X, 45X, 63-1X. 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	Residency	Put it first	Permits	Draw rate	What the permit count covers	IDFG's own figure
2026	Resident	180	25	13.89%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	14%
2026	Nonresident	2	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2024	Resident	177	24	13.56%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	14%
2024	Nonresident	5	1	20.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	20%
2022	Resident	128	25	19.53%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	20%
2022	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2020	Resident	917	98	10.69%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	11%
2020	Nonresident	8	2	25.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	25%
2018	Resident	327	50	15.29%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	15%
2018	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%

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 3 different area labels for elk hunt 2283 across the seasons it published (45X, 51-1X, 63-1X). 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

elk/2026-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2026 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2024-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2024 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2022-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2022 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2020-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2020 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2018-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2018 season, fetched 2026-09-03

Nearby hunt numbers

Hunt 2266 Hunt 2267 Hunt 2280 Hunt 2281 Hunt 2282 Hunt 2284 Hunt 2285 Hunt 2286 Hunt 2287 Hunt 2501 All Idaho elk All Idaho species

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.