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Idaho · Pronghorn · Hunt 4023

Idaho pronghorn controlled hunt 4023

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 4023 in 2026 and issued 25 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 1,010 hunters put it first and 25 drew, 2.48%.

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 26 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
2026Second68132910.30%8601
2026First68251,010252.48%483025
2025Second68127910.36%8001
2025First6825995252.51%443025
2024Second63-1758871.19%10007
2024First63-1501,163504.30%401050
2023First63-1501,037504.82%341050
2022First6825812253.08%402025
2021First6825806253.10%368025
2020First6825930252.69%341025
2019Second68236320.55%4202
2019First6825730253.42%351025
2018First6825806253.10%305025
2017Second68111110.90%5101
2017First6825779253.21%297025
2016Second44-1613664.41%3506
2016First44-115026415056.82%2090150
2015Second44-123226.25%2402
2015First44-115022615066.37%2600150
2014Second21A*no cap590590100.00%1,0879571,547
2014First21A*no cap590590100.00%1,0879571,547
2013First21A*no cap556556100.00%1,0199161,472
2012First21A*no cap520520100.00%8517541,274
2011First21A*no cap664664100.00%8727771,441
2010Second40-2*25372567.57%21025
2010First40-2*20036820054.35%1000200
2009First40-2*no cap490490100.00%329292782
2005Second46-2*110110.00%501
2005First46-2*25732534.25%105025
2004Second46-217114.29%801
2004First46-225482552.08%81025
2003First4410014910067.11%1440100
2002First4410012210081.97%1640100
2001First57512154.13%3605
2000First5410144106.94%94010
1999First57511154.50%2005
1998First51-3501595031.45%151050

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.

No cap is a hunt Idaho drew without a permit limit. Its data carries 99,999 and 999,999 as placeholders in the permits-available field and states nowhere what they mean, so no quota is shown rather than one of those figures.

The area label changes across seasons for this hunt number — Idaho printed 68, 63-1, 44-1, 21A*, 40-2*, 46-2*, 46-2, 44, 57, 54, 51-3. 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
2026SecondResident30010.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2026SecondNonresident2900.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2026FirstResident923242.60%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2026FirstNonresident8711.15%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2025SecondResident24700.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2025SecondNonresident3213.13%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2025FirstResident899232.56%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2025FirstNonresident9622.08%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2024SecondResident56761.06%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2024SecondNonresident2114.76%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2024FirstResident1,107464.16%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2024FirstNonresident5647.14%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2023FirstResident1,011484.75%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2023FirstNonresident2627.69%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree8%
2022FirstResident758243.17%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2022FirstNonresident5411.85%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2021FirstResident766253.26%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2021FirstNonresident4000.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2020FirstResident876242.74%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2020FirstNonresident5411.85%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2019SecondResident34320.58%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2019SecondNonresident2000.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2019FirstResident694233.31%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2019FirstNonresident3625.56%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2018FirstResident780253.21%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2018FirstNonresident2600.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2017SecondResident10510.95%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2017SecondNonresident600.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2017FirstResident763253.28%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2017FirstNonresident1600.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2016SecondResident13564.44%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2016SecondNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2016FirstResident26315057.03%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree57%
2016FirstNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2015SecondResident3226.25%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2015SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2015FirstResident22615066.37%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree66%
2015FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2014SecondResident5761,511—both draw choices100%
2014SecondNonresident1436—both draw choices100%
2014FirstResident5761,511—both draw choices100%
2014FirstNonresident1436—both draw choices100%
2013FirstResident5421,446—both draw choices100%
2013FirstNonresident1426—both draw choices100%
2012FirstResident5071,249—both draw choices100%
2012FirstNonresident1325—both draw choices100%
2011FirstResident6521,420—both draw choices100%
2011FirstNonresident1221—both draw choices100%
2010SecondResident362569.44%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree69%
2010SecondNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2010FirstResident34918452.72%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree53%
2010FirstNonresident191684.21%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree84%
2009FirstResident460744—both draw choices100%
2009FirstNonresident3038—both draw choices100%
2005SecondResident10110.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree10%
2005SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2005FirstResident732534.25%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree34%
2005FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2004SecondResident7114.29%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree14%
2004SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2004FirstResident482552.08%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree52%
2004FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2003FirstResident1489966.89%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree66%
2003FirstNonresident11100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2002FirstResident12210081.97%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree82%
2002FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2001FirstResident9744.12%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2001FirstNonresident2414.17%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2000FirstResident13396.77%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2000FirstNonresident1119.09%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree9%
1999FirstResident10343.88%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
1999FirstNonresident8112.50%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree12%
1998FirstResident1564830.77%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree30%
1998FirstNonresident3266.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree66%

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.

At least one row here has hunters who applied and no rate. That is the case above, and the "what the permit count covers" column says which.

Where Idaho's own figures disagree with each other

  • IDFG printed 11 different area labels for pronghorn hunt 4023 across the seasons it published (21A*, 40-2*, 44, 44-1, 46-2, 46-2*, 51-3, 54, 57, 63-1, 68). 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.