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Idaho · Pronghorn · Hunt 4033

Idaho pronghorn controlled hunt 4033

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 40 permits on hunt 4033 in 2026 and issued 40 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 103 hunters put it first and 40 drew, 38.83%.

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 22 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
2026First46-1401034038.83%63040
2025First46-1401294031.01%77040
2024First40-1528528528100.00%00528
2023First40-1571571571100.00%00571
2022First44-3323323323100.00%00323
2021First44-3no cap297297100.00%00297
2020First45-2no cap5353100.00%199166219
2019First45-2no cap4747100.00%172136183
2018First45-2no cap4444100.00%223189233
2017First45-2no cap3636100.00%187152188
2016Second46-1618633.33%606
2016First46-1401214033.06%19040
2015First46-140844047.62%11040
2014Second44-1*48144.94%4304
2014First44-1*751617546.58%125075
2013Second44-1*22528.00%2002
2013First44-1*50525096.15%45050
2012Second45-134237.14%1903
2012First45-150735068.49%84050
2011Second63-214125.00%601
2011First63-2252525100.00%43025
2009Second4115120.00%101
2009First41401694023.67%50040
2008Second63-2655100.00%105
2008First63-2251111100.00%121223
2001First63-210023210043.10%1450100
2000First47401114036.04%88040
1999First63-217524317572.02%1450175
1998First4125912527.47%65025

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 46-1, 40-1, 44-3, 45-2, 44-1*, 45-1, 63-2, 41, 47. 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
2026FirstResident873641.38%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree41%
2026FirstNonresident16425.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree25%
2025FirstResident983636.73%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree37%
2025FirstNonresident31412.90%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree13%
2024FirstResident495495100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2024FirstNonresident3333100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2023FirstResident534534100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2023FirstNonresident3737100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2022FirstResident316316100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2022FirstNonresident77100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2021FirstResident293293100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2021FirstNonresident44100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2020FirstResident5050100.00%first choice only100%
2020FirstNonresident33100.00%first choice only100%
2019FirstResident4545100.00%first choice only100%
2019FirstNonresident22100.00%first choice only100%
2018FirstResident42221—both draw choices100%
2018FirstNonresident212—both draw choices100%
2017FirstResident36185—both draw choices100%
2017FirstNonresident03—both draw choices0%
2016SecondResident17635.29%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree35%
2016SecondNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2016FirstResident1203932.50%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree32%
2016FirstNonresident11100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2015FirstResident823947.56%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree48%
2015FirstNonresident2150.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree50%
2014SecondResident8045.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2014SecondNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2014FirstResident1617546.58%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree47%
2014FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2013SecondResident2528.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree8%
2013SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2013FirstResident525096.15%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree96%
2013FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2012SecondResident4237.14%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2012SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2012FirstResident735068.49%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree68%
2012FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2011SecondResident4125.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree25%
2011SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2011FirstResident2525100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2011FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2009SecondResident4125.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree25%
2009SecondNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2009FirstResident1573824.20%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree24%
2009FirstNonresident12216.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree17%
2008SecondResident55100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2008SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2008FirstResident1122—both draw choices100%
2008FirstNonresident01—both draw choices0%
2001FirstResident2259843.56%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree43%
2001FirstNonresident7228.57%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree28%
2000FirstResident1093834.86%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree34%
2000FirstNonresident22100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
1999FirstResident23717172.15%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree72%
1999FirstNonresident6466.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree66%
1998FirstResident882326.14%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree26%
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 9 different area labels for pronghorn hunt 4033 across the seasons it published (40-1, 41, 44-1*, 44-3, 45-1, 45-2, 46-1, 47, 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.