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Idaho · Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep · Hunt 5008

Idaho rocky mountain bighorn sheep controlled hunt 5008

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 12 permits on hunt 5008 in 2026 and issued 12 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 155 hunters put it first and 12 drew, 7.74%.

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 29 of the 29 seasons Idaho offers, 1998 to 2026.

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.
SeasonAreaPermits availablePut it firstDrew on first choiceFirst-choice draw ratePut it secondDrew on second choicePermits issued
202627-112155127.74%66012
202527-112165127.27%45012
202427-112140128.57%58012
202327-112142128.45%46012
202227-112143128.39%59012
202127-112891213.48%71012
202027-1121111210.81%59012
201927-112881213.64%46012
201827-112871213.79%32012
201727-1121201210.00%39012
201627-112601220.00%36012
201527-112541222.22%27012
201427-2630620.00%2206
201327-2643613.95%2006
201227-2648612.50%1406
201127-2643613.95%1406
201027-2651611.76%2506
200927-266369.52%3906
200827-1844818.18%2808
200727-1829827.59%2008
200627-115751520.00%36015
200527-115751520.00%41015
200427-112421228.57%18012
200327-112391230.77%28012
200227-112611219.67%38012
200127-112381231.58%39012
200027-266469.38%6206
199927-269966.06%6006
199827-2642614.29%5706

The area label changes across seasons for this hunt number — Idaho printed 27-1, 27-2. 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.
SeasonResidencyPut it firstPermitsDraw rateWhat the permit count coversIDFG's own figure
2026Resident941212.77%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree13%
2026Nonresident6100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2025Resident1101210.91%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree11%
2025Nonresident5500.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2024Resident961212.50%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree13%
2024Nonresident4400.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2023Resident941212.77%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree13%
2023Nonresident4800.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2022Resident1081211.11%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree11%
2022Nonresident3500.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2021Resident621219.35%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree19%
2021Nonresident2700.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2020Resident771215.58%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree16%
2020Nonresident3400.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2019Resident601220.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree20%
2019Nonresident2800.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2018Resident471225.53%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree26%
2018Nonresident4000.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2017Resident681217.65%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree18%
2017Nonresident5200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2016Resident291241.38%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree41%
2016Nonresident3100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2015Resident391128.21%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree28%
2015Nonresident1516.67%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree7%
2014Resident17635.29%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree35%
2014Nonresident1300.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2013Resident28621.43%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree21%
2013Nonresident1500.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2012Resident30620.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree20%
2012Nonresident1800.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2011Resident22627.27%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree27%
2011Nonresident2100.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2010Resident27622.22%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree22%
2010Nonresident2400.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2009Resident32515.63%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree16%
2009Nonresident3113.23%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
2008Resident22836.36%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree36%
2008Nonresident2200.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2007Resident20840.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree40%
2007Nonresident900.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2006Resident511529.41%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree29%
2006Nonresident2400.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2005Resident421535.71%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree36%
2005Nonresident3300.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2004Resident271244.44%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree44%
2004Nonresident1500.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2003Resident241250.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree50%
2003Nonresident1500.00%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree0%
2002Resident391128.21%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree28%
2002Nonresident2214.55%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree4%
2001Resident261142.31%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree42%
2001Nonresident1218.33%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree8%
2000Resident33515.15%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree15%
2000Nonresident3113.23%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree3%
1999Resident46510.87%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree10%
1999Nonresident5311.89%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree1%
1998Resident24520.83%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree20%
1998Nonresident1815.56%no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree5%

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 2 different area labels for rocky-mountain-sheep hunt 5008 across the seasons it published (27-1, 27-2). 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

Hunt 5003Hunt 5004Hunt 5005Hunt 5006Hunt 5007Hunt 5009Hunt 5010Hunt 5011Hunt 5012Hunt 5013All Idaho rocky mountain bighorn sheepAll Idaho species

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.