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Idaho · Pronghorn · Hunt 4002

Idaho pronghorn controlled hunt 4002

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 30 permits on hunt 4002 in 2026 and issued 30 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 468 hunters put it first and 30 drew, 6.41%.

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.
SeasonPeriodAreaPermits availablePut it firstDrew on first choiceFirst-choice draw ratePut it secondDrew on second choicePermits issued
2026Second30-1112610.79%13401
2026First30-130468306.41%404030
2025First30-130513305.85%353030
2024Second30-1330131.00%8903
2024First30-130490306.12%314030
2023Second30-1129610.34%1901
2023First30-130486306.17%321030
2022Second30-1124510.41%3001
2022First30-130416307.21%342030
2021First30-130528305.68%327030
2020Second30-1125110.40%2701
2020First30-130526305.70%320030
2019First30-130491306.11%244030
2018Second30-119411.06%2701
2018First30-130457306.56%224030
2017First30-130416307.21%166030
2016Second30-116511.54%2301
2016First30-130365308.22%242030
2015First30-130398307.54%174030
2014Second30*30347308.65%189030
2014First30*30347308.65%189030
2013Second30*15311.89%2601
2013First30*30329309.12%223030
2012First30*302963010.14%168030
2011Second30*212021.67%2902
2011First30*302833010.60%167030
2010Second30*16311.59%1601
2009Second30*16511.54%1801
2009First30*30311309.65%157030
2008First30*302963010.14%141030
2007First30*302963010.14%126030
2006Second30*13113.23%1501
2006First30*30322309.32%117030
2005Second30*27822.56%1102
2005First30*302433012.35%119030
2004First30302453012.24%136030
2003First30302793010.75%132030
2002First30302063014.56%113030
2001First30301853016.22%120030
2000First30301763017.05%128030
1999First30302053014.63%128030
1998First29-2501565032.05%109050

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 30-1, 30*, 30, 29-2. 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.
SeasonPeriodResidencyPut it firstPermitsDraw rateWhat the permit count coversIDFG's own figure
2026SecondResident11110.90%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2026SecondNonresident1500.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2026FirstResident411276.57%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2026FirstNonresident5735.26%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2025FirstResident452275.97%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2025FirstNonresident6134.92%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2024SecondResident26910.37%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2024SecondNonresident3226.25%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2024FirstResident430276.28%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2024FirstNonresident6035.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2023SecondResident26110.38%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2023SecondNonresident3500.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2023FirstResident425286.59%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2023FirstNonresident6123.28%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2022SecondResident21210.47%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2022SecondNonresident3300.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2022FirstResident366277.38%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2022FirstNonresident5036.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2021FirstResident467275.78%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2021FirstNonresident6134.92%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2020SecondResident22200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2020SecondNonresident2913.45%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree17%
2020FirstResident466275.79%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2020FirstNonresident6035.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2019FirstResident425276.35%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2019FirstNonresident6634.55%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2018SecondResident8611.16%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2018SecondNonresident800.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2018FirstResident413276.54%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2018FirstNonresident4436.82%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2017FirstResident376277.18%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2017FirstNonresident4037.50%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree8%
2016SecondResident6311.59%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2016SecondNonresident200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2016FirstResident331288.46%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree8%
2016FirstNonresident3425.88%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2015FirstResident367277.36%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2015FirstNonresident3139.68%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree10%
2014SecondResident322288.70%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree9%
2014SecondNonresident2528.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree8%
2014FirstResident322288.70%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree9%
2014FirstNonresident2528.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree8%
2013SecondResident5211.92%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2013SecondNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2013FirstResident318288.81%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree9%
2013FirstNonresident11218.18%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree18%
2012FirstResident286279.44%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree9%
2012FirstNonresident10330.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree30%
2011SecondResident11321.77%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2011SecondNonresident700.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2011FirstResident2672910.86%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree11%
2011FirstNonresident1616.25%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2010SecondResident5811.72%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2010SecondNonresident500.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2009SecondResident6111.64%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2009SecondNonresident400.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2009FirstResident2872910.10%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree10%
2009FirstNonresident2414.17%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2008FirstResident2693011.15%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree11%
2008FirstNonresident2700.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2007FirstResident2822910.28%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree10%
2007FirstNonresident1417.14%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2006SecondResident2913.45%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2006SecondNonresident200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2006FirstResident303299.57%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree10%
2006FirstNonresident1915.26%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2005SecondResident7522.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2005SecondNonresident300.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2005FirstResident2342811.97%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree12%
2005FirstNonresident9222.22%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree22%
2004FirstResident2222913.06%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree13%
2004FirstNonresident2314.35%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2003FirstResident2642810.61%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree10%
2003FirstNonresident15213.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree13%
2002FirstResident1972713.71%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree13%
2002FirstNonresident9333.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree33%
2001FirstResident1713017.54%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree17%
2001FirstNonresident1400.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2000FirstResident1702816.47%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree16%
2000FirstNonresident6233.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree33%
1999FirstResident2053014.63%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree14%
1999FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
1998FirstResident1534730.72%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree30%
1998FirstNonresident33100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%

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 4 different area labels for pronghorn hunt 4002 across the seasons it published (29-2, 30, 30*, 30-1). 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

Nearby hunt numbers

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.