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Idaho · Pronghorn · Hunt 4044

Idaho pronghorn controlled hunt 4044

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 4044 in 2026 and issued 40 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 225 hunters put it first and 40 drew, 17.78%.

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 17 of the 29 seasons Idaho offers, 2010 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
2026Second41-214312.33%1301
2026First41-2402254017.78%68040
2025Second41-229322.15%1502
2025First41-2402454016.33%80040
2024First6820392051.28%16020
2023First6820412048.78%53020
2022Second6840954042.11%22040
2022First68754949100.00%922675
2021Second6828432865.12%27028
2021First68755656100.00%991975
2020Second63-225923.39%3202
2020First63-2501225040.98%115050
2019Second63-236334.76%2203
2019First63-2501395035.97%92050
2018Second63-259255.43%1405
2018First63-250935053.76%74050
2017Second63-223725.41%1002
2017First63-2501305038.46%88050
2016Second61-111715.88%101
2016First61-125682536.76%38025
2015Second61-111915.26%501
2015First61-125662537.88%25025
2014First6125602541.67%36025
2013Second32*13013.33%001
2013First32*151391510.79%6015
2012Second52*11119.09%101
2012First52*25602541.67%11025
2011First52*25442556.82%17025
2010Second63-248450.00%104
2010First63-225262596.15%14025

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 41-2, 68, 63-2, 61-1, 61, 32*, 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
2026SecondResident3500.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2026SecondNonresident8112.50%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree12%
2026FirstResident1973819.29%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree19%
2026FirstNonresident2827.14%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2025SecondResident8111.23%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
2025SecondNonresident1218.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree8%
2025FirstResident2083617.31%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree17%
2025FirstNonresident37410.81%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree11%
2024FirstResident361850.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree50%
2024FirstNonresident3266.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree67%
2023FirstResident341852.94%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree53%
2023FirstNonresident7228.57%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree29%
2022SecondResident943941.49%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree41%
2022SecondNonresident11100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2022FirstResident4343100.00%first choice only100%
2022FirstNonresident66100.00%first choice only100%
2021SecondResident402665.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree65%
2021SecondNonresident3266.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree67%
2021FirstResident5050100.00%first choice only100%
2021FirstNonresident66100.00%first choice only100%
2020SecondResident5423.70%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2020SecondNonresident500.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2020FirstResident1134539.82%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree40%
2020FirstNonresident9555.56%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree56%
2019SecondResident6223.23%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2019SecondNonresident11100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2019FirstResident1334735.34%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree35%
2019FirstNonresident6350.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree50%
2018SecondResident8533.53%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2018SecondNonresident7228.57%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree29%
2018FirstResident904853.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree53%
2018FirstNonresident3266.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree67%
2017SecondResident3625.56%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2017SecondNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2017FirstResident1265039.68%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree40%
2017FirstNonresident400.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2016SecondResident1715.88%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2016SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2016FirstResident672537.31%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree37%
2016FirstNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2015SecondResident1915.26%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2015SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2015FirstResident652436.92%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree37%
2015FirstNonresident11100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2014FirstResident592440.68%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree41%
2014FirstNonresident11100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2013SecondResident3013.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2013SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2013FirstResident1371410.22%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree10%
2013FirstNonresident2150.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree50%
2012SecondResident1119.09%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree9%
2012SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2012FirstResident582543.10%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree43%
2012FirstNonresident200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2011FirstResident442556.82%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree57%
2011FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2010SecondResident8450.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree50%
2010SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2010FirstResident262596.15%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree96%
2010FirstNonresident00—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.

Where Idaho's own figures disagree with each other

  • IDFG printed 7 different area labels for pronghorn hunt 4044 across the seasons it published (32*, 41-2, 52*, 61, 61-1, 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.