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Idaho · Pronghorn · Hunt 4039

Idaho pronghorn controlled hunt 4039

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 10 permits on hunt 4039 in 2026 and issued 10 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 61 hunters put it first and 10 drew, 16.39%.

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 18 of the 29 seasons Idaho offers, 2009 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
2026First55-110611016.39%45010
2025First55-110951010.53%49010
2024First52A-1235235235100.00%00235
2023First52A-1219219219100.00%00219
2022Second54942921.43%1209
2022First5425782532.05%82025
2021Second54652611.54%2006
2021First5425852529.41%52025
2020Second6826532649.06%33026
2020First68754747100.00%732875
2019Second6820252080.00%32020
2019First68754040100.00%853575
2018Second6814841416.67%21014
2018First68755353100.00%912275
2017Second6817561730.36%9017
2017First68756565100.00%1051075
2016Second41-234936.12%1003
2016First41-2401734023.12%31040
2015Second41-222129.52%602
2015First41-2401394028.78%41040
2014Second4111715.88%401
2014First41401474027.21%29040
2013First41401584025.32%23040
2012Second4756857.35%3305
2012First47751557548.39%64075
2011First47751337556.39%86075
2010Second63-233339.09%2603
2010First63-2501415035.46%65050
2009First52*25382565.79%10025

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.

The area label changes across seasons for this hunt number — Idaho printed 55-1, 52A-1, 54, 68, 41-2, 41, 47, 63-2, 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
2026FirstResident36925.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree25%
2026FirstNonresident2514.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2025FirstResident59915.25%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree15%
2025FirstNonresident3612.78%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2024FirstResident220220100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2024FirstNonresident1515100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2023FirstResident210210100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2023FirstNonresident99100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2022SecondResident31825.81%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree26%
2022SecondNonresident1119.09%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree9%
2022FirstResident582339.66%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree40%
2022FirstNonresident20210.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree10%
2021SecondResident47510.64%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree11%
2021SecondNonresident5120.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree20%
2021FirstResident602338.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree38%
2021FirstNonresident2528.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree8%
2020SecondResident482552.08%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree52%
2020SecondNonresident5120.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2020FirstResident4646100.00%first choice only100%
2020FirstNonresident11100.00%first choice only100%
2019SecondResident241979.17%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree79%
2019SecondNonresident11100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2019FirstResident3939100.00%first choice only100%
2019FirstNonresident11100.00%first choice only100%
2018SecondResident831416.87%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree17%
2018SecondNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2018FirstResident5374—both draw choices100%
2018FirstNonresident01—both draw choices0%
2017SecondResident501530.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree30%
2017SecondNonresident6233.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree33%
2017FirstResident6070—both draw choices100%
2017FirstNonresident55—both draw choices100%
2016SecondResident4636.52%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2016SecondNonresident300.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2016FirstResident1613622.36%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree22%
2016FirstNonresident12433.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree33%
2015SecondResident20210.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree10%
2015SecondNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2015FirstResident1313929.77%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree30%
2015FirstNonresident8112.50%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree12%
2014SecondResident1616.25%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2014SecondNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2014FirstResident1393726.62%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree27%
2014FirstNonresident8337.50%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree38%
2013FirstResident1513925.83%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree26%
2013FirstNonresident7114.29%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree14%
2012SecondResident6857.35%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2012SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2012FirstResident1497147.65%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree48%
2012FirstNonresident6466.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree67%
2011FirstResident1287357.03%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree57%
2011FirstNonresident5240.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree40%
2010SecondResident3339.09%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree9%
2010SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2010FirstResident1405035.71%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree36%
2010FirstNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2009FirstResident382565.79%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree66%
2009FirstNonresident00—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 9 different area labels for pronghorn hunt 4039 across the seasons it published (41, 41-2, 47, 52*, 52A-1, 54, 55-1, 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.