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Idaho · Pronghorn · Hunt 4012

Idaho pronghorn controlled hunt 4012

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 60 permits on hunt 4012 in 2026 and issued 60 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 2,675 hunters put it first and 60 drew, 2.24%.

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
2026Second4631,11130.27%19803
2026First46602,675602.24%844060
2025First46602,647602.27%837060
2024Second46133310.30%8301
2024First46602,592602.31%762060
2023Second46287320.23%15902
2023First46602,277602.64%735060
2022First4925342257.31%230025
2021First4925301258.31%197025
2020First4925397256.30%205025
2019Second4915911.69%2601
2019First4925318257.86%159025
2018First4925393256.36%171025
2017Second4916311.59%2301
2017First4925318257.86%267025
2016Second50114610.68%4401
2016First50751,457755.15%549075
2015First50751,423755.27%528075
2014Second50233020.61%7302
2014First50751,233756.08%527075
2013Second50555650.90%11805
2013First50751,188756.31%546075
2012Second50449240.81%13004
2012First50751,184756.33%513075
2011First50751,054757.12%595075
2010Second50325431.18%9703
2010First50751,161756.46%570075
2009Second5018011.25%4701
2009First50751,029757.29%571075
2008Second50543651.15%10005
2007Second50542451.18%15605
2007First5075967757.76%618075
2006Second5014312.33%3201
2006First5075903758.31%579075
2005Second50214321.40%4302
2005First5075967757.76%511075
2004Second50437541.07%10504
2004First5075925758.11%558075
2003First49503255015.38%187050
2002First49503925012.76%203050
2001First4510211104.74%179010
2000First44403814010.50%229040
1999First44-1403564011.24%214040
1998First3910213104.69%203010

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 46, 49, 50, 45, 44, 44-1, 39. 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
2026SecondResident98930.30%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2026SecondNonresident12200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2026FirstResident2,400552.29%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2026FirstNonresident27551.82%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2025FirstResident2,442552.25%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2025FirstNonresident20552.44%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2024SecondResident31210.32%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2024SecondNonresident2100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2024FirstResident2,423572.35%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2024FirstNonresident16931.78%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2023SecondResident80220.25%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2023SecondNonresident7100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2023FirstResident2,136562.62%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2023FirstNonresident14142.84%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2022FirstResident311258.04%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree8%
2022FirstNonresident3100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2021FirstResident275248.73%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree9%
2021FirstNonresident2613.85%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2020FirstResident358236.42%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2020FirstNonresident3925.13%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2019SecondResident5100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2019SecondNonresident8112.50%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree12%
2019FirstResident286258.74%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree9%
2019FirstNonresident3200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2018FirstResident364236.32%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2018FirstNonresident2926.90%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2017SecondResident5811.72%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2017SecondNonresident500.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2017FirstResident295248.14%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree8%
2017FirstNonresident2314.35%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2016SecondResident13810.72%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2016SecondNonresident800.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2016FirstResident1,391715.10%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2016FirstNonresident6646.06%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2015FirstResident1,357735.38%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2015FirstNonresident6623.03%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2014SecondResident32320.62%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2014SecondNonresident700.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2014FirstResident1,199756.26%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2014FirstNonresident3400.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2013SecondResident54750.91%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2013SecondNonresident900.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2013FirstResident1,158736.30%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2013FirstNonresident3026.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2012SecondResident47940.84%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2012SecondNonresident1300.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2012FirstResident1,144736.38%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2012FirstNonresident4025.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2011FirstResident1,029737.09%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2011FirstNonresident2528.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree8%
2010SecondResident24631.22%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2010SecondNonresident800.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2010FirstResident1,126726.39%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2010FirstNonresident3538.57%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree9%
2009SecondResident7511.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2009SecondNonresident500.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2009FirstResident995717.14%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2009FirstNonresident34411.76%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree12%
2008SecondResident41851.20%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2008SecondNonresident1800.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2007SecondResident40151.25%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2007SecondNonresident2300.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2007FirstResident924737.90%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree8%
2007FirstNonresident4324.65%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2006SecondResident3912.56%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2006SecondNonresident400.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2006FirstResident871748.50%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree8%
2006FirstNonresident3213.13%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2005SecondResident14121.42%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2005SecondNonresident200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2005FirstResident929737.86%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree8%
2005FirstNonresident3825.26%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2004SecondResident35841.12%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2004SecondNonresident1700.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2004FirstResident877697.87%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2004FirstNonresident48612.50%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree12%
2003FirstResident3074815.64%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree15%
2003FirstNonresident18211.11%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree11%
2002FirstResident3764913.03%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree13%
2002FirstNonresident1616.25%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2001FirstResident203104.93%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2001FirstNonresident800.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2000FirstResident3744010.70%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree10%
2000FirstNonresident700.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
1999FirstResident3483710.63%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree10%
1999FirstNonresident8337.50%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree37%
1998FirstResident212104.72%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
1998FirstNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%

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 7 different area labels for pronghorn hunt 4012 across the seasons it published (39, 44, 44-1, 45, 46, 49, 50). 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.