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Idaho · Pronghorn · Hunt 4027

Idaho pronghorn controlled hunt 4027

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 310 permits on hunt 4027 in 2026 and issued 310 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 310 hunters put it first and 310 drew, 100.00%.

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
2026First28-1310310310100.00%00310
2025First28-1314314314100.00%00314
2023Second63-211616.25%501
2023First63-210461021.74%59010
2022Second63-337833.85%2303
2022First63-325972525.77%86025
2021Second63-312613.85%1201
2021First63-325552545.45%89025
2020First63-225602541.67%53025
2019Second63-224025.00%1502
2019First63-225622540.32%58025
2018Second54-1544511.36%3305
2018First54-150725069.44%113050
2017Second54-1219210.53%902
2017First54-150735068.49%120050
2016First63-225652538.46%49025
2015First63-225452555.56%36025
2014First45-2*no cap6363100.00%204170233
2013First45-2*no cap5353100.00%222178231
2012First45-2*no cap4848100.00%216172220
2011First45-2*no cap3636100.00%189140176
2010Second46-2*777100.00%507
2010First46-2*40844047.62%26040
2008First41401384028.99%74040
2007Second4144548.89%204
2007First41401604025.00%67040
2006Second4755658.93%1105
2006First47751357555.56%72075
2005Second63-258356.02%3205
2005First63-2752227533.78%138075
2004Second63-212813.57%1301
2004First63-2752457530.61%120075
2003First63-2752377531.65%117075
2002First63-210024610040.65%1290100
2001First63-1603226018.63%148060
2000First60A501885026.60%218050
1999First63-1502535019.76%161050
1998First58504535011.04%374050

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 28-1, 63-2, 63-3, 54-1, 45-2*, 46-2*, 41, 47, 63-1, 60A, 58. 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
2026FirstResident285285100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2026FirstNonresident2525100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2025FirstResident281281100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2025FirstNonresident3333100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2023SecondResident1616.25%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2023SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2023FirstResident461021.74%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree22%
2023FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2022SecondResident7733.90%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2022SecondNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2022FirstResident932324.73%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree25%
2022FirstNonresident4250.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree50%
2021SecondResident2414.17%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2021SecondNonresident200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2021FirstResident532547.17%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree47%
2021FirstNonresident200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2020FirstResident592542.37%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree42%
2020FirstNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2019SecondResident4025.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2019SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2019FirstResident622540.32%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree40%
2019FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2018SecondResident42511.90%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree12%
2018SecondNonresident200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2018FirstResident715070.42%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree70%
2018FirstNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2017SecondResident19210.53%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree11%
2017SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2017FirstResident735068.49%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree68%
2017FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2016FirstResident652538.46%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree38%
2016FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2015FirstResident452555.56%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree56%
2015FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2014FirstResident60227—both draw choices100%
2014FirstNonresident36—both draw choices100%
2013FirstResident49226—both draw choices100%
2013FirstNonresident45—both draw choices100%
2012FirstResident46216—both draw choices100%
2012FirstNonresident24—both draw choices100%
2011FirstResident34172—both draw choices100%
2011FirstNonresident24—both draw choices100%
2010SecondResident77100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2010SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2010FirstResident804050.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree50%
2010FirstNonresident400.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2008FirstResident1313627.48%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree27%
2008FirstNonresident7457.14%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree57%
2007SecondResident4349.30%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree9%
2007SecondNonresident200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2007FirstResident1473926.53%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree27%
2007FirstNonresident1317.69%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree8%
2006SecondResident5235.77%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2006SecondNonresident4250.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree50%
2006FirstResident1236855.28%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree55%
2006FirstNonresident12758.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree58%
2005SecondResident8256.10%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2005SecondNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2005FirstResident2147334.11%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree34%
2005FirstNonresident8225.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree25%
2004SecondResident2813.57%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2004SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2004FirstResident2367130.08%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree30%
2004FirstNonresident9444.44%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree44%
2003FirstResident2247232.14%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree32%
2003FirstNonresident13323.08%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree23%
2002FirstResident2419941.08%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree41%
2002FirstNonresident5120.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree20%
2001FirstResident3195918.50%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree18%
2001FirstNonresident3133.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree33%
2000FirstResident1865026.88%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree26%
2000FirstNonresident200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
1999FirstResident2535019.76%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree19%
1999FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
1998FirstResident4504910.89%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree10%
1998FirstNonresident3133.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree33%

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 4027 across the seasons it published (28-1, 41, 45-2*, 46-2*, 47, 54-1, 58, 60A, 63-1, 63-2, 63-3). 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.