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Idaho · Pronghorn · Hunt 4018

Idaho pronghorn controlled hunt 4018

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 4018 in 2026 and issued 25 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 1,635 hunters put it first and 25 drew, 1.53%.

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
2026First54251,635251.53%870025
2025First54251,500251.67%790025
2024First54251,384251.81%770025
2023First54251,281251.95%622025
2022Second55-1129010.34%6101
2022First55-110684101.46%276010
2021First55-110633101.58%211010
2020First55-110664101.51%250010
2019Second55-1116110.62%4501
2019First55-110532101.88%202010
2018Second55-1118010.56%2601
2018First55-110496102.02%184010
2017First55-110472102.12%151010
2016Second59-1119010.53%901
2016First59-1501,043504.79%403050
2015Second59-1116810.60%2001
2015First59-150987505.07%462050
2014Second59*50938505.33%330050
2014First59*50938505.33%330050
2013Second59*17811.28%3801
2013First59*50829506.03%350050
2012Second59*111110.90%1901
2012First59*50842505.94%343050
2011Second59*215621.28%5102
2011First59*50826506.05%376050
2010First59*50893505.60%354050
2009First59*50773506.47%369050
2008Second59*211421.75%4202
2008First59*50805506.21%344050
2007First59*50738506.78%289050
2006Second59*526851.87%4305
2006First59*50726506.89%352050
2005Second59*314232.11%4903
2005First59*50767506.52%341050
2004First5950813506.15%337050
2003First5850510509.80%300050
2002First58755917512.69%409075
2001First51-1756617511.35%229075
2000First51-1756717511.18%289075
1999First51-1756167512.18%304075
1998First50-11001,0541009.49%5330100

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 54, 55-1, 59-1, 59*, 59, 58, 51-1, 50-1. 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
2026FirstResident1,191231.93%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2026FirstNonresident44420.45%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2025FirstResident1,126232.04%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2025FirstNonresident37420.53%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2024FirstResident1,069232.15%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2024FirstNonresident31520.63%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2023FirstResident1,003232.29%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2023FirstNonresident27820.72%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2022SecondResident22510.44%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2022SecondNonresident6500.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2022FirstResident48791.85%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2022FirstNonresident19710.51%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2021FirstResident46791.93%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2021FirstNonresident16610.60%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2020FirstResident46291.95%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2020FirstNonresident20210.50%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2019SecondResident11510.87%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2019SecondNonresident4600.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2019FirstResident37792.39%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2019FirstNonresident15510.65%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2018SecondResident13210.76%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2018SecondNonresident4800.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2018FirstResident37592.40%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2018FirstNonresident12110.83%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2017FirstResident368102.72%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2017FirstNonresident10400.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2016SecondResident18110.55%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2016SecondNonresident900.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2016FirstResident1,030494.76%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2016FirstNonresident1317.69%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree8%
2015SecondResident16410.61%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2015SecondNonresident400.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2015FirstResident972495.04%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2015FirstNonresident1516.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2014SecondResident917485.23%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2014SecondNonresident2129.52%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree10%
2014FirstResident917485.23%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2014FirstNonresident2129.52%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree10%
2013SecondResident7411.35%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2013SecondNonresident400.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2013FirstResident811475.80%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2013FirstNonresident18316.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree17%
2012SecondResident10900.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2012SecondNonresident2150.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree50%
2012FirstResident835505.99%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2012FirstNonresident700.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2011SecondResident15410.65%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2011SecondNonresident2150.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree50%
2011FirstResident817506.12%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2011FirstNonresident900.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2010FirstResident889505.62%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2010FirstNonresident400.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2009FirstResident756496.48%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2009FirstNonresident1715.88%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2008SecondResident10821.85%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2008SecondNonresident600.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2008FirstResident780496.28%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2008FirstNonresident2514.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2007FirstResident726486.61%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2007FirstNonresident12216.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree17%
2006SecondResident26651.88%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2006SecondNonresident200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2006FirstResident702476.70%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2006FirstNonresident24312.50%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree12%
2005SecondResident14232.11%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2005SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2005FirstResident745466.17%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2005FirstNonresident22418.18%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree18%
2004FirstResident808506.19%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2004FirstNonresident500.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2003FirstResident4925010.16%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree10%
2003FirstNonresident1800.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2002FirstResident5837512.86%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree12%
2002FirstNonresident800.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2001FirstResident6397111.11%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree11%
2001FirstNonresident22418.18%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree18%
2000FirstResident6607210.91%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree10%
2000FirstNonresident11327.27%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree27%
1999FirstResident5987111.87%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree11%
1999FirstNonresident18422.22%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree22%
1998FirstResident1,032989.50%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree9%
1998FirstNonresident2229.09%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree9%

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 8 different area labels for pronghorn hunt 4018 across the seasons it published (50-1, 51-1, 54, 55-1, 58, 59, 59*, 59-1). 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.