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Idaho · Pronghorn · Hunt 4016

Idaho pronghorn controlled hunt 4016

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 4016 in 2026 and issued 25 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 684 hunters put it first and 25 drew, 3.65%.

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
2026First52-125684253.65%327025
2025First52-125537254.66%323025
2024Second52-1219521.03%9702
2024First52-125518254.83%356025
2023First52-125563254.44%347025
2022Second52A-1000—000
2022First52A-1501,306503.83%414050
2021Second52A-1128410.35%5401
2021First52A-1501,287503.89%475050
2020Second52A-1126010.38%7101
2020First52A-1501,324503.78%515050
2019First52A-1501,276503.92%393050
2018First52A-1501,187504.21%389050
2017Second52A-1343230.69%5503
2017First52A-1501,060504.72%379050
2016Second54116910.59%5101
2016First5425975252.56%479025
2015First5425937252.67%465025
2014Second54-1224620.81%6402
2014First54-125903252.77%386025
2013Second54-1118510.54%2701
2013First54-125905252.76%356025
2012Second54116110.62%2301
2012First5425791253.16%313025
2011First5425912252.74%304025
2010Second5419811.02%2501
2010First5425775253.23%279025
2009First5425788253.17%298025
2008First5425869252.88%292025
2007Second5419011.11%2701
2007First5425709253.53%254025
2006Second5417511.33%1601
2006First5425597254.19%228025
2005First5425591254.23%209025
2004First5425523254.78%190025
2003First52A252112511.85%225025
2002First52A25292258.56%219025
2001First50-2501475034.01%255050
2000First50-2501505033.33%184050
1999First50-2501835027.32%283050
1998First46-160756607.94%313060

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 52-1, 52A-1, 54, 54-1, 52A, 50-2, 46-1. 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
2026FirstResident635253.94%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2026FirstNonresident4900.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2025FirstResident514244.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2025FirstNonresident2314.35%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2024SecondResident19121.05%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2024SecondNonresident400.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2024FirstResident483234.76%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2024FirstNonresident3525.71%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2023FirstResident531234.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2023FirstNonresident3226.25%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2022SecondResident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2022SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2022FirstResident1,238483.88%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2022FirstNonresident6822.94%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2021SecondResident26310.38%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2021SecondNonresident2100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2021FirstResident1,207473.89%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2021FirstNonresident8033.75%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2020SecondResident22810.44%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2020SecondNonresident3200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2020FirstResident1,238473.80%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2020FirstNonresident8633.49%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2019FirstResident1,160463.97%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2019FirstNonresident11643.45%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2018FirstResident1,137453.96%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2018FirstNonresident50510.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree10%
2017SecondResident40030.75%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2017SecondNonresident3200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2017FirstResident1,032494.75%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2017FirstNonresident2813.57%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2016SecondResident14310.70%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2016SecondNonresident2600.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2016FirstResident815232.82%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2016FirstNonresident16021.25%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2015FirstResident773232.98%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2015FirstNonresident16421.22%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2014SecondResident20710.48%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2014SecondNonresident3912.56%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2014FirstResident734233.13%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2014FirstNonresident16921.18%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2013SecondResident16310.61%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2013SecondNonresident2200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2013FirstResident779232.95%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2013FirstNonresident12621.59%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2012SecondResident13900.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2012SecondNonresident2214.55%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2012FirstResident736233.13%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2012FirstNonresident5523.64%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2011FirstResident826242.91%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2011FirstNonresident8611.16%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2010SecondResident8900.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2010SecondNonresident9111.11%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree11%
2010FirstResident710233.24%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2010FirstNonresident6523.08%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2009FirstResident710233.24%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2009FirstNonresident7822.56%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2008FirstResident729233.16%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2008FirstNonresident14021.43%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2007SecondResident7600.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2007SecondNonresident1417.14%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2007FirstResident616233.73%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2007FirstNonresident9322.15%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2006SecondResident6511.54%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2006SecondNonresident1000.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2006FirstResident524234.39%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2006FirstNonresident7322.74%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2005FirstResident520244.62%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2005FirstNonresident7111.41%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2004FirstResident459245.23%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2004FirstNonresident6411.56%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2003FirstResident2022512.38%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree12%
2003FirstNonresident900.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2002FirstResident280238.21%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree8%
2002FirstNonresident12216.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree16%
2001FirstResident1445034.72%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree34%
2001FirstNonresident300.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2000FirstResident1485033.78%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree33%
2000FirstNonresident200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
1999FirstResident1815027.62%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree27%
1999FirstNonresident200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
1998FirstResident753607.97%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree8%
1998FirstNonresident300.00%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 4016 across the seasons it published (46-1, 50-2, 52-1, 52A, 52A-1, 54, 54-1). 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.