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Idaho · Pronghorn · Hunt 4035

Idaho pronghorn controlled hunt 4035

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 244 permits on hunt 4035 in 2026 and issued 244 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 244 hunters put it first and 244 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 21 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
2026First49-1244244244100.00%00244
2025First49-1282282282100.00%00282
2024First46-1401054038.10%99040
2023First46-1401034038.83%66040
2022First46-1310310310100.00%00310
2021First46-1no cap290290100.00%00290
2020First46-1no cap105105100.00%463408513
2019First46-1no cap102102100.00%475426528
2018First46-1no cap6868100.00%377317385
2017First46-1no cap8585100.00%348301386
2016Second54311327.27%603
2016First54251062523.58%17025
2015First5425702535.71%32025
2014First4915321546.88%19015
2013Second4911616.25%501
2013First4915231565.22%37015
2012First63-225452555.56%55025
2010Second30A18112.50%201
2010First30A401074037.38%17040
2009Second63-2531516.13%1605
2009First63-2501265039.68%90050
2001First3210731013.70%5010
2000First6125492551.02%40025
1999First5210137107.30%4010
1998First63-217526717565.54%1730175

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 49-1, 46-1, 54, 49, 63-2, 30A, 32, 61, 52. 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
2026FirstResident230230100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2026FirstNonresident1414100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2025FirstResident271271100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2025FirstNonresident1111100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2024FirstResident913639.56%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree40%
2024FirstNonresident14428.57%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree29%
2023FirstResident833643.37%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree43%
2023FirstNonresident20420.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree20%
2022FirstResident294294100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2022FirstNonresident1616100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2021FirstResident283283100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2021FirstNonresident77100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2020FirstResident102102100.00%first choice only100%
2020FirstNonresident33100.00%first choice only100%
2019FirstResident9494100.00%first choice only100%
2019FirstNonresident88100.00%first choice only100%
2018FirstResident68381—both draw choices100%
2018FirstNonresident04—both draw choices0%
2017FirstResident85383—both draw choices100%
2017FirstNonresident03—both draw choices0%
2016SecondResident7228.57%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree29%
2016SecondNonresident4125.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree25%
2016FirstResident872326.44%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree26%
2016FirstNonresident19210.53%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree11%
2015FirstResident612337.70%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree38%
2015FirstNonresident9222.22%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree22%
2014FirstResident321546.88%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree47%
2014FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2013SecondResident1616.25%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2013SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2013FirstResident231565.22%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree65%
2013FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2012FirstResident452555.56%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree56%
2012FirstNonresident00—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%
2010FirstResident1053836.19%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree36%
2010FirstNonresident22100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2009SecondResident31516.13%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree16%
2009SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2009FirstResident1224839.34%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree39%
2009FirstNonresident4250.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree50%
2001FirstResident731013.70%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree13%
2001FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2000FirstResident482552.08%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree52%
2000FirstNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
1999FirstResident137107.30%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
1999FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
1998FirstResident26117366.28%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree66%
1998FirstNonresident6233.33%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 9 different area labels for pronghorn hunt 4035 across the seasons it published (30A, 32, 46-1, 49, 49-1, 52, 54, 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.