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Idaho · Pronghorn · Hunt 4045

Idaho pronghorn controlled hunt 4045

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 50 permits on hunt 4045 in 2026 and issued 50 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 251 hunters put it first and 50 drew, 19.92%.

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 16 of the 29 seasons Idaho offers, 2011 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
2026Second47313632.21%1703
2026First47502515019.92%104050
2025Second4716311.59%1901
2025First47502515019.92%68050
2024Second6827762735.53%44027
2024First68754343100.00%653275
2023Second6833853338.82%21033
2023First68754646100.00%782975
2022Second30A000—000
2022First30A401424028.17%62040
2021Second30A410243.92%2004
2021First30A401794022.35%54040
2020First36A-120282207.09%59020
2019First36A-120270207.41%45020
2018First36A-120211209.48%39020
2017First36A-120245208.16%35020
2016First32-115175158.57%3015
2015First32-115182158.24%8015
2014Second32*13512.86%001
2014First32*151411510.64%6015
2013First39516531.25%1205
2012Second63-2111100.00%001
2012First63-225372567.57%12025
2011Second63-225240.00%002
2011First63-225462554.35%1025

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 47, 68, 30A, 36A-1, 32-1, 32*, 39, 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
2026SecondResident12021.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2026SecondNonresident1616.25%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree6%
2026FirstResident2114420.85%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree21%
2026FirstNonresident40615.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree15%
2025SecondResident5711.75%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2025SecondNonresident600.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2025FirstResident2274519.82%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree20%
2025FirstNonresident24520.83%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree21%
2024SecondResident702637.14%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree37%
2024SecondNonresident6116.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree17%
2024FirstResident3939100.00%first choice only100%
2024FirstNonresident44100.00%first choice only100%
2023SecondResident813037.04%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree37%
2023SecondNonresident4375.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree75%
2023FirstResident4242100.00%first choice only100%
2023FirstNonresident44100.00%first choice only100%
2022SecondResident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2022SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2022FirstResident1243629.03%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree29%
2022FirstNonresident18422.22%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree22%
2021SecondResident9144.40%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2021SecondNonresident1100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2021FirstResident1553623.23%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree23%
2021FirstNonresident24416.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree17%
2020FirstResident255197.45%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2020FirstNonresident2713.70%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2019FirstResident249197.63%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree8%
2019FirstNonresident2114.76%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2018FirstResident191189.42%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree9%
2018FirstNonresident20210.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree10%
2017FirstResident228187.89%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree8%
2017FirstNonresident17211.76%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree12%
2016FirstResident172158.72%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree9%
2016FirstNonresident300.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2015FirstResident180158.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree8%
2015FirstNonresident200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2014SecondResident3412.94%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2014SecondNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2014FirstResident1371510.95%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree11%
2014FirstNonresident400.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2013FirstResident16531.25%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree31%
2013FirstNonresident00—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%
2012FirstResident362466.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree67%
2012FirstNonresident11100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2011SecondResident5240.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree40%
2011SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2011FirstResident452453.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree53%
2011FirstNonresident11100.00%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.

Where Idaho's own figures disagree with each other

  • IDFG printed 8 different area labels for pronghorn hunt 4045 across the seasons it published (30A, 32*, 32-1, 36A-1, 39, 47, 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.