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Idaho · Pronghorn · Hunt 4030

Idaho pronghorn controlled hunt 4030

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 200 permits on hunt 4030 in 2026 and issued 200 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 278 hunters put it first and 200 drew, 71.94%.

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
2026First40-120027820071.94%1740200
2025First40-120026520075.47%1460200
2024First30A-1192192192100.00%00192
2023First30A-1254254254100.00%00254
2022First36-1341341341100.00%00341
2021First36-1no cap271271100.00%00271
2020Second40-120712028.17%35020
2020First40-120048120041.58%880200
2019Second40-122542240.74%16022
2019First40-120043320046.19%860200
2018Second40-126722636.11%16026
2018First40-120047920041.75%800200
2017Second40-114641421.88%2014
2017First40-120044820044.64%440200
2016First40-1no cap146146100.00%540415561
2015First40-1no cap111111100.00%564432543
2014First54-115741520.27%30015
2013First54-115831518.07%18015
2012First5415651523.08%20015
2011First5415841517.86%21015
2010Second44*18112.50%101
2010First44*20392051.28%50020
2009First63-2251919100.00%32625
2008First6125392564.10%34025
2007Second61220210.00%202
2007First6125422559.52%30025
2006First32*15991515.15%8015
2005Second52*23725.41%402
2005First52*251712514.62%12025
2004First52251892513.23%24025
2003First52251862513.44%31025
2002First52251832513.66%27025
2001First4625332575.76%103025
2000First44805151100.00%1712980
1999First46-250745067.57%209050
1998First63-1502235022.42%201050

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 40-1, 30A-1, 36-1, 54-1, 54, 44*, 63-2, 61, 32*, 52*, 52, 46, 44, 46-2, 63-1. 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
2026FirstResident24518173.88%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree74%
2026FirstNonresident331957.58%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree58%
2025FirstResident24418475.41%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree75%
2025FirstNonresident211676.19%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree76%
2024FirstResident171171100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2024FirstNonresident2121100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2023FirstResident219219100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2023FirstNonresident3535100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2022FirstResident327327100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2022FirstNonresident1414100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2021FirstResident260260100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2021FirstNonresident1111100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2020SecondResident681927.94%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree28%
2020SecondNonresident3133.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree33%
2020FirstResident45218841.59%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree42%
2020FirstNonresident291241.38%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree41%
2019SecondResident502142.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree42%
2019SecondNonresident4125.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree25%
2019FirstResident40219448.26%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree48%
2019FirstNonresident31619.35%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree19%
2018SecondResident712636.62%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree37%
2018SecondNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2018FirstResident44918841.87%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree42%
2018FirstNonresident301240.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree40%
2017SecondResident641421.88%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree22%
2017SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2017FirstResident42719345.20%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree45%
2017FirstNonresident21733.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree33%
2016FirstResident139548—both draw choices100%
2016FirstNonresident713—both draw choices100%
2015FirstResident104529—both draw choices100%
2015FirstNonresident714—both draw choices100%
2014FirstResident661421.21%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree21%
2014FirstNonresident8112.50%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree12%
2013FirstResident731520.55%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree21%
2013FirstNonresident1000.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2012FirstResident621524.19%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree24%
2012FirstNonresident300.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2011FirstResident781519.23%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree19%
2011FirstNonresident600.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2010SecondResident8112.50%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree12%
2010SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2010FirstResident392051.28%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree51%
2010FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2009FirstResident1925—both draw choices100%
2009FirstNonresident00—both draw choices0%
2008FirstResident392564.10%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree64%
2008FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2007SecondResident20210.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree10%
2007SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2007FirstResident422559.52%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree60%
2007FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2006FirstResident981515.31%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree15%
2006FirstNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2005SecondResident3625.56%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2005SecondNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2005FirstResident1622314.20%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree14%
2005FirstNonresident9222.22%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree22%
2004FirstResident1842513.59%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree13%
2004FirstNonresident500.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2003FirstResident1822413.19%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree13%
2003FirstNonresident4125.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree25%
2002FirstResident1832513.66%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree13%
2002FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2001FirstResident332575.76%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree75%
2001FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2000FirstResident5180—both draw choices100%
2000FirstNonresident00—both draw choices100%
1999FirstResident734967.12%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree67%
1999FirstNonresident11100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
1998FirstResident2215022.62%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree22%
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 15 different area labels for pronghorn hunt 4030 across the seasons it published (30A-1, 32*, 36-1, 40-1, 44, 44*, 46, 46-2, 52, 52*, 54, 54-1, 61, 63-1, 63-2). 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.