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Idaho · Pronghorn · Hunt 4028

Idaho pronghorn controlled hunt 4028

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 225 permits on hunt 4028 in 2026 and issued 225 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 225 hunters put it first and 225 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
2026First30A-1225225225100.00%00225
2025First30A-1233233233100.00%00233
2023Second63-311516.67%601
2023First63-310401025.00%49010
2022First28-1271271271100.00%00271
2021First28-1no cap275275100.00%00275
2020Second63-329222.17%3502
2020First63-325932526.88%82025
2019First63-325342573.53%75025
2018Second63-2322313.64%1003
2018First63-225662537.88%47025
2017First63-225622540.32%37025
2016First21A-1no cap772772100.00%1,4031,2852,057
2015First21A-1no cap639639100.00%1,1481,0291,668
2014First46-2*401024039.22%22040
2013First46-2*401074037.38%20040
2012First46-2*401034038.83%39040
2011Second46-2*210220.00%502
2011First46-2*401114036.04%29040
2010First46-2*no cap4040100.00%182121161
2008Second4748544.71%1904
2008First47751787542.13%90075
2007Second47956916.07%1109
2007First47751567548.08%67075
2006Second63-269866.12%2206
2006First63-2751947538.66%127075
2005Second61211218.18%002
2005First6125402562.50%27025
2004Second61213215.38%402
2004First6125502550.00%25025
2003First6125552545.45%32025
2002First6125392564.10%24025
2001First68503515014.25%150050
2000First63-1502805017.86%257050
1999First68503345014.97%124050
1998First591001,1161008.96%4400100

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 30A-1, 63-3, 28-1, 63-2, 21A-1, 46-2*, 47, 61, 68, 63-1, 59. 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
2026FirstResident191191100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2026FirstNonresident3434100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2025FirstResident181181100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2025FirstNonresident5252100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2023SecondResident1516.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2023SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2023FirstResident401025.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree25%
2023FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2022FirstResident248248100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2022FirstNonresident2323100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2021FirstResident254254100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2021FirstNonresident2121100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2020SecondResident9222.17%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2020SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2020FirstResident902426.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree27%
2020FirstNonresident3133.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree33%
2019FirstResident332472.73%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree73%
2019FirstNonresident11100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2018SecondResident22313.64%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree14%
2018SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2018FirstResident662537.88%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree38%
2018FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2017FirstResident612540.98%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree41%
2017FirstNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2016FirstResident7381,992—both draw choices100%
2016FirstNonresident3465—both draw choices100%
2015FirstResident6241,638—both draw choices100%
2015FirstNonresident1530—both draw choices100%
2014FirstResident1004040.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree40%
2014FirstNonresident200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2013FirstResident1023736.27%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree36%
2013FirstNonresident5360.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree60%
2012FirstResident993838.38%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree38%
2012FirstNonresident4250.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree50%
2011SecondResident10220.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree20%
2011SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2011FirstResident1084037.04%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree37%
2011FirstNonresident300.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2010FirstResident40157—both draw choices100%
2010FirstNonresident04—both draw choices0%
2008SecondResident7645.26%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2008SecondNonresident900.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2008FirstResident1617445.96%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree46%
2008FirstNonresident1715.88%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2007SecondResident52917.31%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree17%
2007SecondNonresident400.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2007FirstResident1486946.62%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree47%
2007FirstNonresident8675.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree75%
2006SecondResident9766.19%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2006SecondNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2006FirstResident1847540.76%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree41%
2006FirstNonresident1000.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2005SecondResident11218.18%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree18%
2005SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2005FirstResident402562.50%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree62%
2005FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2004SecondResident13215.38%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree15%
2004SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2004FirstResident502550.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree50%
2004FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2003FirstResident552545.45%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree45%
2003FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2002FirstResident392564.10%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree64%
2002FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2001FirstResident3484813.79%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree13%
2001FirstNonresident3266.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree66%
2000FirstResident2795017.92%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree17%
2000FirstNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
1999FirstResident3315015.11%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree15%
1999FirstNonresident300.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
1998FirstResident1,105998.96%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree9%
1998FirstNonresident1119.09%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.

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 4028 across the seasons it published (21A-1, 28-1, 30A-1, 46-2*, 47, 59, 61, 63-1, 63-2, 63-3, 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.