Unit 1
Elk
Resident licenses
Panhandle Zone Elk Tag
Availability: General Season
✅ Includes bull elk
A Tag: Archery only — antlered only ...
Any weapon — antlered only Oct 25-Oct 29.
B Tag: Archery only — antlered only ...
Any weapon — antlered only Oct 10-Oct 24.
Source: IDFG regulations (2026)
Nonresident licenses
Nonresident Elk Zone Tag
Availability: Draw — see notes
✅ Includes bull elk
Panhandle Zone general elk tag (units 1, 2, 3, 4, 4A, 5, 6, 7, 9).
Nonresident general-season elk tags are not sold over the counter: beginning with the 2026 season IDFG issues them by random draw — first application period Dec 5-15, 2025, second application period Feb 5-15, 2026 — against a statewide nonresident general-season quota of 12,815 elk tags.
Panhandle Zone nonresident limits — A Tag: 657 nonresident tags (uncapped zone; 71 additional tags allocated to outfitters).
B Tag: 1,092 nonresident tags (uncapped zone; 79 additional tags allocated to outfitters).
Price: $651.75 nonresident elk tag plus $185.00 nonresident hunting license (Idaho Big Game 2026 Seasons & Rules, Nonresident License, Tag and Permit Fees, prices as of December 1, 2024).
Source: 2026 Nonresident General Tags and Tags Allocated to Outfitters, "Nonresident Elk Tags by Zone" and "Elk Tag Limits for Nonresidents and Outfitters by Zone".
Source: IDFG regulations (2026)
6+ point bulls: 72 of 328 total bulls harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All | Spike | Bull | 6+ pt | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 4390 | 398 | 9.1% | 92 | 2.1% | 236 | 5.4% | 72 | 1.6% |
| 2024 | 4181 | 456 | 10.9% | 84 | 2% | 238 | 5.7% | 109 | 2.6% |
| 2023 | 4226 | 384 | 9.1% | 81 | 1.9% | 173 | 4.1% | 43 | 1% |
| 2022 | 4258 | 393 | 9.2% | 46 | 1.1% | 209 | 4.9% | 64 | 1.5% |
| 2021 | 4584 | 411 | 9% | 83 | 1.8% | 160 | 3.5% | 46 | 1% |
| 2020 | 4564 | 421 | 9.2% | 54 | 1.2% | 190 | 4.2% | 88 | 1.9% |
| 2019 | 4345 | 482 | 11.1% | 103 | 2.4% | 230 | 5.3% | 63 | 1.4% |
| 2018 | 4246 | 467 | 11% | 75 | 1.8% | 213 | 5% | 92 | 2.2% |
| 2017 | 4391 | 565 | 12.9% | 107 | 2.4% | 227 | 5.2% | 67 | 1.5% |
| 2016 | 3629 | 400 | 11% | 148 | 4.1% | 252 | 6.9% | 88 | 2.4% |
| 2015 | 3749 | 412 | 11% | 69 | 1.8% | 343 | 9.1% | 176 | 4.7% |
| 2014 | 3361 | 420 | 12.5% | 210 | 6.2% | 210 | 6.2% | 47 | 1.4% |
| 2013 | 3214 | 299 | 9.3% | 94 | 2.9% | 205 | 6.4% | 52 | 1.6% |
| 2012 | 3067 | 320 | 10.4% | 97 | 3.2% | 214 | 7% | 92 | 3% |
| 2011 | 4208 | 490 | 11.6% | 106 | 2.5% | 196 | 4.7% | 75 | 1.8% |
| 2010 | 3866 | 522 | 13.5% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2009 | 3965 | 440 | 11.1% | 92 | 2.3% | 215 | 5.4% | 107 | 2.7% |
| 2008 | 4651 | 521 | 11.2% | 94 | 2% | 225 | 4.8% | 57 | 1.2% |
| 2007 | 3912 | 674 | 17.2% | 124 | 3.2% | 288 | 7.4% | 108 | 2.8% |
IDFG doesn't publish harvest by residency.
Source: IDFG harvest statistics, 2025.
Deer
Resident licenses
Regular Deer Tag
Availability: General Season
✅ Includes antlered deer opportunity (all deer)
Antlered: Oct 10 - Oct 31 (White-tailed deer only); Nov 1 - Nov 14 [unlabeled in the regulation -- this is the OTHER species' window, since the first is explicitly white-tailed-only].
Antlerless: both windows White-tailed deer only.
Source: IDFG regulations (2026)
Nonresident licenses
Nonresident Regular Deer Tag
Availability: Draw — see notes
✅ Includes antlered deer opportunity (all deer)
Unit 1 Regular Deer, nonresident hunt code RD01.
Nonresident general-season deer tags are not sold over the counter: beginning with the 2026 season IDFG issues them by random draw — first application period Dec 5-15, 2025, second application period Feb 5-15, 2026 — against a statewide nonresident general-season quota of 15,500 deer tags.
Unit 1 nonresident limit: 671 tags, plus 11 tags allocated to outfitters.
Price: $351.75 nonresident deer tag plus $185.00 nonresident hunting license (Idaho Big Game 2026 Seasons & Rules, Nonresident License, Tag and Permit Fees, prices as of December 1, 2024).
Source: 2026 Nonresident General Tags and Tags Allocated to Outfitters, "Nonresident Regular Deer Tags by Unit" and "Regular Deer Tag Limits for Nonresidents and Outfitters by Unit".
Source: IDFG regulations (2026)
Idaho's Regular Deer Tag harvest and success-rate figures below combine the mule and white-tailed deer populations into one number — IDFG doesn't publish a single-species breakdown at the unit level.
4+ point deer (all deer): 1350 of 2045 antlered deer harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All deer | Antlered | 4+ pt | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 8248 | 2838 | 34.4% | 2045 | 24.8% | 1350 | 16.4% |
| 2024 | 7743 | 2896 | 37.4% | 2055 | 26.5% | 1151 | 14.9% |
| 2023 | 8418 | 3116 | 37% | 2239 | 26.6% | 851 | 10.1% |
| 2022 | 7586 | 3084 | 40.7% | 2240 | 29.5% | 1075 | 14.2% |
| 2021 | 8289 | 3551 | 42.8% | 2686 | 32.4% | 1182 | 14.3% |
| 2020 | 8080 | 3671 | 45.4% | 2630 | 32.5% | 842 | 10.4% |
| 2019 | 8684 | 3107 | 35.8% | 2160 | 24.9% | 1102 | 12.7% |
| 2018 | 8509 | 3631 | 42.7% | 2599 | 30.5% | 1196 | 14.1% |
| 2017 | 8210 | 3914 | 47.7% | 2673 | 32.6% | 1149 | 14% |
| 2016 | 9231 | 4497 | 48.7% | 3404 | 36.9% | 1464 | 15.9% |
| 2015 | 9264 | 4743 | 51.2% | 3212 | 34.7% | 1693 | 18.3% |
| 2014 | 8418 | 3832 | 45.5% | 2600 | 30.9% | 1448 | 17.2% |
| 2013 | 8199 | 3292 | 40.2% | 2297 | 28% | 1318 | 16.1% |
| 2012 | 8186 | 3805 | 46.5% | 2647 | 32.3% | 1519 | 18.6% |
| 2011 | 7772 | 3358 | 43.2% | 2203 | 28.3% | 1240 | 16% |
| 2010 | 7238 | 2688 | 37.1% | 2292 | 31.7% | 1318 | 18.2% |
| 2009 | 8701 | 2501 | 28.7% | 2111 | 24.3% | 1309 | 15% |
| 2008 | 9568 | 3134 | 32.8% | 2326 | 24.3% | 1424 | 14.9% |
| 2007 | 8111 | 3237 | 39.9% | 2341 | 28.9% | 1442 | 17.8% |
IDFG doesn't publish harvest by residency.
Source: IDFG harvest statistics, 2025.