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Idaho · Pronghorn · Hunt 4037

Idaho pronghorn controlled hunt 4037

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 278 permits on hunt 4037 in 2026 and issued 278 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 278 hunters put it first and 278 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 19 of the 29 seasons Idaho offers, 2000 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
2026First52A-1278278278100.00%00278
2025First52A-1225225225100.00%00225
2024First49-1231231231100.00%00231
2023First49-1249249249100.00%00249
2022First51-2308308308100.00%00308
2021First51-2no cap260260100.00%00260
2020Second55-113812.63%1201
2020First55-110801012.50%25010
2019First55-110751013.33%32010
2018Second55-112114.76%1401
2018First55-110801012.50%30010
2017Second55-111417.14%201
2017First55-110371027.03%11010
2016First68no cap5050100.00%256224274
2015First68no cap3333100.00%193161194
2014Second63-223126.45%2402
2014First63-225592542.37%25025
2013Second30A34436.82%1103
2013First30A401074037.38%20040
2012Second36A110110.00%501
2012First36A10401025.00%11010
2011First36A10381026.32%6010
2010First41401354029.63%43040
2009Second6116116.67%201
2009First6125482552.08%19025
2000First3210701014.29%19010

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 52A-1, 49-1, 51-2, 55-1, 68, 63-2, 30A, 36A, 41, 61, 32. 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
2026FirstResident256256100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2026FirstNonresident2222100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2025FirstResident216216100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2025FirstNonresident99100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2024FirstResident227227100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2024FirstNonresident44100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2023FirstResident240240100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2023FirstNonresident99100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2022FirstResident298298100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2022FirstNonresident1010100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2021FirstResident251251100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2021FirstNonresident99100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2020SecondResident3213.13%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2020SecondNonresident600.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2020FirstResident50918.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree18%
2020FirstNonresident3013.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2019FirstResident49918.37%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree18%
2019FirstNonresident2613.85%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2018SecondResident1715.88%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2018SecondNonresident400.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2018FirstResident66913.64%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree14%
2018FirstNonresident1417.14%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2017SecondResident9111.11%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree11%
2017SecondNonresident500.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2017FirstResident22940.91%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree41%
2017FirstNonresident1516.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2016FirstResident46270—both draw choices100%
2016FirstNonresident44—both draw choices100%
2015FirstResident33194—both draw choices100%
2015FirstNonresident00—both draw choices0%
2014SecondResident3126.45%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2014SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2014FirstResident592542.37%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree42%
2014FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2013SecondResident4237.14%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2013SecondNonresident200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2013FirstResident1013837.62%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree38%
2013FirstNonresident6233.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree33%
2012SecondResident10110.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree10%
2012SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2012FirstResident391025.64%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree26%
2012FirstNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2011FirstResident371027.03%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree27%
2011FirstNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2010FirstResident1243729.84%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree30%
2010FirstNonresident11327.27%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree27%
2009SecondResident6116.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree17%
2009SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2009FirstResident482552.08%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree52%
2009FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2000FirstResident701014.29%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree14%
2000FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%

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 4037 across the seasons it published (30A, 32, 36A, 41, 49-1, 51-2, 52A-1, 55-1, 61, 63-2, 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.