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Idaho · Pronghorn · Hunt 4048

Idaho pronghorn controlled hunt 4048

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 4048 in 2026 and issued 50 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 99 hunters put it first and 50 drew, 50.51%.

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 14 of the 29 seasons Idaho offers, 2013 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
2026Second63-2414342.80%2704
2026First63-250995050.51%116050
2025Second63-214312.33%1901
2025First63-2501285039.06%115050
2024First47502625019.08%88050
2023First47501735028.90%109050
2022Second63-259455.32%2105
2022First63-2501535032.68%80050
2021Second63-211616.25%1301
2021First63-2501905026.32%97050
2020First39510550.00%605
2019First39513538.46%205
2018First39514535.71%905
2017Second3914125.00%101
2017First39518527.78%205
2016First54-225492551.02%27025
2015Second54-218112.50%101
2015First54-225422559.52%34025
2014First54-215291551.72%22015
2013First63-225462554.35%3025

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 63-2, 47, 39, 54-2. 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
2026SecondResident14242.82%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2026SecondNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2026FirstResident934649.46%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree49%
2026FirstNonresident6466.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree67%
2025SecondResident4212.38%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree2%
2025SecondNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2025FirstResident1214940.50%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree40%
2025FirstNonresident7114.29%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree14%
2024FirstResident2374518.99%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree19%
2024FirstNonresident25520.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree20%
2023FirstResident1604830.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree30%
2023FirstNonresident13215.38%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree15%
2022SecondResident9155.49%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%
2022SecondNonresident300.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2022FirstResident1374532.85%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree33%
2022FirstNonresident16531.25%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree31%
2021SecondResident1500.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2021SecondNonresident11100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree100%
2021FirstResident1654527.27%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree27%
2021FirstNonresident25520.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree20%
2020FirstResident10550.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree50%
2020FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2019FirstResident13538.46%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree38%
2019FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2018FirstResident14535.71%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree36%
2018FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2017SecondResident4125.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree25%
2017SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2017FirstResident18527.78%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree28%
2017FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2016FirstResident482552.08%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree52%
2016FirstNonresident100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2015SecondResident8112.50%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree12%
2015SecondNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2015FirstResident422559.52%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree60%
2015FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2014FirstResident291551.72%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree52%
2014FirstNonresident00—no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2013FirstResident462554.35%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree54%
2013FirstNonresident00—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 4 different area labels for pronghorn hunt 4048 across the seasons it published (39, 47, 54-2, 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.