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Idaho · Pronghorn · Hunt 4025

Idaho pronghorn controlled hunt 4025

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 100 permits on hunt 4025 in 2026 and issued 100 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 285 hunters put it first and 100 drew, 35.09%.

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 27 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
2026Second44-113350133.71%126013
2026First44-110028510035.09%2330100
2025Second44-166968.70%12006
2025First44-110011910084.03%2150100
2022Second44-2431641.27%9404
2022First44-210051210019.53%2850100
2021Second44-218411.19%2501
2021First44-210061110016.37%3510100
2020Second44-2533651.49%8305
2020First44-220069020028.99%3550200
2019Second44-2523052.17%5405
2019First44-220071720027.89%3630200
2018Second44-1613264.55%6206
2018First44-115031215048.08%2510150
2017Second44-1922893.95%5109
2017First44-115028515052.63%2080150
2016First4915361541.67%18015
2015First4915321546.88%15015
2014Second40-2*no cap122122100.00%526398520
2014First40-2*no cap122122100.00%526398520
2013First40-2*no cap130130100.00%499379509
2012First40-2*no cap134134100.00%586440574
2011First40-2*no cap114114100.00%525378492
2010Second45-2*38337.50%303
2010First45-2*40674059.70%24040
2009First46-2*no cap143143100.00%178159302
2008First4915181583.33%38015
2007Second4926233.33%402
2007First491599100.00%17615
2006Second30A319315.79%303
2006First30A40684058.82%34040
2005Second4133738.11%803
2005First41401614024.84%64040
2004First41401714023.39%93040
2003First41401234032.52%115040
2002First41401734023.12%71040
2001First591001,2281008.14%4360100
2000First58504595010.89%357050
1999First591001,2091008.27%4030100
1998First5410134107.46%70010

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 44-1, 44-2, 49, 40-2*, 45-2*, 46-2*, 30A, 41, 59, 58, 54. 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
2026SecondResident344133.78%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2026SecondNonresident600.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2026FirstResident2659033.96%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree34%
2026FirstNonresident201050.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree50%
2025SecondResident6768.96%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree9%
2025SecondNonresident200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2025FirstResident1129584.82%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree85%
2025FirstNonresident7571.43%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree71%
2022SecondResident31130.96%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2022SecondNonresident5120.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree20%
2022FirstResident4999619.24%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree19%
2022FirstNonresident13430.77%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree31%
2021SecondResident8300.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2021SecondNonresident11100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2021FirstResident5969816.44%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree16%
2021FirstNonresident15213.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree13%
2020SecondResident33151.51%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2020SecondNonresident500.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2020FirstResident67819729.06%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree29%
2020FirstNonresident12325.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree25%
2019SecondResident22852.19%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2019SecondNonresident200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2019FirstResident70719727.86%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree28%
2019FirstNonresident10330.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree30%
2018SecondResident13164.58%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2018SecondNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2018FirstResident30514647.87%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree48%
2018FirstNonresident7457.14%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree57%
2017SecondResident22594.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2017SecondNonresident300.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2017FirstResident28014652.14%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree52%
2017FirstNonresident5480.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree80%
2016FirstResident361541.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree42%
2016FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2015FirstResident321546.88%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree47%
2015FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2014SecondResident118506—both draw choices100%
2014SecondNonresident414—both draw choices100%
2014FirstResident118506—both draw choices100%
2014FirstNonresident414—both draw choices100%
2013FirstResident126496—both draw choices100%
2013FirstNonresident413—both draw choices100%
2012FirstResident131567—both draw choices100%
2012FirstNonresident37—both draw choices100%
2011FirstResident108474—both draw choices100%
2011FirstNonresident618—both draw choices100%
2010SecondResident8337.50%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree38%
2010SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2010FirstResident613963.93%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree64%
2010FirstNonresident6116.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree17%
2009FirstResident143299—both draw choices100%
2009FirstNonresident03—both draw choices0%
2008FirstResident181583.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree83%
2008FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2007SecondResident6233.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree33%
2007SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2007FirstResident915—both draw choices100%
2007FirstNonresident00—both draw choices0%
2006SecondResident19315.79%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree16%
2006SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2006FirstResident643859.38%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree59%
2006FirstNonresident4250.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree50%
2005SecondResident30310.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree10%
2005SecondNonresident700.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2005FirstResident1313627.48%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree27%
2005FirstNonresident30413.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree13%
2004FirstResident1563623.08%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree23%
2004FirstNonresident15426.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree26%
2003FirstResident1063633.96%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree34%
2003FirstNonresident17423.53%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree23%
2002FirstResident1563723.72%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree23%
2002FirstNonresident17317.65%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree17%
2001FirstResident1,2121008.25%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree8%
2001FirstNonresident1600.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2000FirstResident4515011.09%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree11%
2000FirstNonresident800.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
1999FirstResident1,191998.31%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree8%
1999FirstNonresident1815.56%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
1998FirstResident132107.58%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
1998FirstNonresident200.00%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.

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 4025 across the seasons it published (30A, 40-2*, 41, 44-1, 44-2, 45-2*, 46-2*, 49, 54, 58, 59). 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.