Idaho · Elk · Hunt 2719
Idaho elk controlled hunt 2719
Area 31. 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 2002 drawing did
Idaho offered 34 permits on hunt 2719 in 2002 and issued 0, because nobody drew it at all. In the first application period, nobody put it first.
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 2002. 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.
First-choice draw rate, by season
| Season | Area | Permits available | Put it first | Drew on first choice | First-choice draw rate | Permits issued |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 31 | 34 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 |
By residency
| Season | Residency | Put it first | Permits | Draw rate | What the permit count covers | IDFG's own figure |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Resident | 0 | 0 | — | no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree | 100% |
| 2002 | 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.
Sources for this hunt
- elk/2002-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2002 season, fetched 2026-09-03