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Idaho · Pronghorn · Hunt 4034

Idaho pronghorn controlled hunt 4034

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 514 permits on hunt 4034 in 2026 and issued 514 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 514 hunters put it first and 514 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 20 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
2026First46-1514514514100.00%00514
2025First46-1521521521100.00%00521
2024First44-3413413413100.00%00413
2023First44-3330329329100.00%11330
2022Second46-1521523.81%905
2022First46-140974041.24%95040
2021Second46-1321314.29%1603
2021First46-140814049.38%102040
2020Second46-123725.41%1902
2020First46-1401294031.01%25040
2019Second46-1515533.33%105
2019First46-1401494026.85%29040
2018Second46-1520525.00%705
2018First46-1401394028.78%19040
2017Second46-1314321.43%503
2017First46-1401454027.59%22040
2016First46-1no cap7878100.00%313276354
2015First46-1no cap7575100.00%228191266
2014Second44-2*34436.82%3803
2014First44-2*10025610039.06%1670100
2013Second44-2*37234.17%1303
2013First44-2*10023610042.37%1950100
2012Second49111100.00%001
2012First4915221568.18%26015
2009Second4766269.68%1506
2009First47751447552.08%79075
2001First6125302583.33%36025
2000First63-210025410039.37%1340100
1999First61252525100.00%32025
1998First47401264031.75%73040

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, 44-3, 44-2*, 49, 47, 61, 63-2. 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
2026FirstResident476476100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2026FirstNonresident3838100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2025FirstResident486486100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2025FirstNonresident3535100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2024FirstResident402402100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2024FirstNonresident1111100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2023FirstResident320320100.00%first choice only100%
2023FirstNonresident99100.00%first choice only100%
2022SecondResident21523.81%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree24%
2022SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2022FirstResident873742.53%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree43%
2022FirstNonresident10330.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree30%
2021SecondResident21314.29%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree14%
2021SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2021FirstResident754053.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree53%
2021FirstNonresident600.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2020SecondResident3425.88%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2020SecondNonresident300.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2020FirstResident1183630.51%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree31%
2020FirstNonresident11436.36%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree36%
2019SecondResident15533.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree33%
2019SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2019FirstResident1323627.27%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree27%
2019FirstNonresident17423.53%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree24%
2018SecondResident20525.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree25%
2018SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2018FirstResident1343929.10%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree29%
2018FirstNonresident5120.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree20%
2017SecondResident14321.43%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree21%
2017SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2017FirstResident1383827.54%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree28%
2017FirstNonresident7228.57%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree29%
2016FirstResident77347—both draw choices100%
2016FirstNonresident17—both draw choices100%
2015FirstResident74263—both draw choices100%
2015FirstNonresident13—both draw choices100%
2014SecondResident4336.98%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2014SecondNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2014FirstResident25610039.06%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree39%
2014FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2013SecondResident7234.17%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2013SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2013FirstResident23410042.74%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree43%
2013FirstNonresident200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2012SecondResident11100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2012SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2012FirstResident221568.18%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree68%
2012FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2009SecondResident59610.17%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree10%
2009SecondNonresident300.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2009FirstResident1357354.07%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree54%
2009FirstNonresident9222.22%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree22%
2001FirstResident302583.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree83%
2001FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2000FirstResident2439840.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree40%
2000FirstNonresident11218.18%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree18%
1999FirstResident2525100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
1999FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
1998FirstResident1203730.83%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree30%
1998FirstNonresident6350.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree50%

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 7 different area labels for pronghorn hunt 4034 across the seasons it published (44-2*, 44-3, 46-1, 47, 49, 61, 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.