Idaho · Elk · Hunt 2504

Idaho elk controlled hunt 2504

Area 30-2. 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 2003 drawing did

Idaho offered 10 permits on hunt 2504 in 2003 and issued 10 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 16 hunters put it first and 10 drew, 62.50%.

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.

This hunt number stops appearing after 2003. Idaho's 2026 drawing does not carry it. Hunt numbers are reissued, so this site does not map a retired number onto a current one — see the note on areas below.

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
2003	30-2	10	16	10	62.50%	0	10
2002	30-2	8	11	0	0.00%	0	0
2001	30-2	8	4	4	100.00%	1	4
2000	30-2	10	8	7	87.50%	0	7
1999	30-2	15	2	2	100.00%	2	2

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
2003	Resident	12	6	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2003	Nonresident	4	4	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2002	Resident	10	7	—	neither reading fits the row's own totals	70%
2002	Nonresident	1	1	—	neither reading fits the row's own totals	100%
2001	Resident	4	4	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2001	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2000	Resident	6	6	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2000	Nonresident	2	1	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
1999	Resident	2	2	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
1999	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

2002. resident 7 plus nonresident 1 sums to neither the 0 first-choice permits nor the 0 total; no residency rate is computed

Nothing above is corrected. Correcting it would mean publishing a figure the department never stated.

Sources for this hunt

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

Nearby hunt numbers

Hunt 2286 Hunt 2287 Hunt 2501 Hunt 2502 Hunt 2503 Hunt 2505 Hunt 2506 Hunt 2507 Hunt 2508 Hunt 2509 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.