Unit 14
Elk
Resident licenses
Elk City Zone Elk Tag
Availability: General Season
✅ Includes bull elk
A Tag: Archery only — antlered only, Units 15 & 16 only.
B Tag: 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
Elk City Zone general elk tag (units 14, 15, 16).
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.
Elk City Zone nonresident limits — A Tag: 77 nonresident tags (capped zone — 628 total capped tags, of which 545 are resident tags and 6 are allocated to outfitters), archery-only and muzzleloader-only seasons.
B Tag: 261 nonresident tags (capped zone — 1,432 total capped tags, of which 1,131 are resident tags and 40 are 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: 40 of 176 total bulls harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All | Spike | Bull | 6+ pt | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 867 | 223 | 25.7% | 70 | 8.1% | 106 | 12.2% | 40 | 4.6% |
| 2024 | 863 | 294 | 34.1% | 39 | 4.5% | 180 | 20.9% | 33 | 3.8% |
| 2023 | 849 | 216 | 25.4% | 71 | 8.4% | 121 | 14.3% | 40 | 4.7% |
| 2022 | 841 | 194 | 23.1% | 64 | 7.6% | 96 | 11.4% | 53 | 6.3% |
| 2021 | 813 | 242 | 29.8% | 91 | 11.2% | 131 | 16.1% | 44 | 5.4% |
| 2020 | 932 | 220 | 23.6% | 53 | 5.7% | 125 | 13.4% | 25 | 2.7% |
| 2019 | 844 | 215 | 25.5% | 48 | 5.7% | 144 | 17.1% | 44 | 5.2% |
| 2018 | 1212 | 255 | 21% | 80 | 6.6% | 110 | 9.1% | 25 | 2.1% |
| 2017 | 1111 | 308 | 27.7% | 71 | 6.4% | 184 | 16.6% | 59 | 5.3% |
| 2016 | 997 | 248 | 24.9% | 48 | 4.8% | 123 | 12.3% | 56 | 5.6% |
| 2015 | 1077 | 315 | 29.2% | 84 | 7.8% | 144 | 13.4% | 84 | 7.8% |
| 2014 | 1053 | 222 | 21.1% | 74 | 7% | 76 | 7.2% | 30 | 2.8% |
| 2013 | 1128 | 230 | 20.4% | 66 | 5.9% | 104 | 9.2% | 32 | 2.8% |
| 2012 | 905 | 198 | 21.9% | 49 | 5.4% | 104 | 11.5% | 21 | 2.3% |
| 2011 | 1035 | 248 | 24% | 74 | 7.1% | 105 | 10.1% | 23 | 2.2% |
| 2010 | 1052 | 267 | 25.4% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2009 | 1021 | 197 | 19.3% | 45 | 4.4% | 99 | 9.7% | 38 | 3.7% |
| 2008 | 1173 | 224 | 19.1% | 68 | 5.8% | 97 | 8.3% | 35 | 3% |
| 2007 | 1005 | 277 | 27.6% | 89 | 8.9% | 133 | 13.2% | 34 | 3.4% |
IDFG doesn't publish harvest by residency.
Source: IDFG harvest statistics, 2025.
Deer
Resident licenses
Regular Deer Tag
Availability: Controlled Hunt
⚠️ No general season data for this species in this unit — see the regulation notes below for details.
Not listed in the 2026 Regular Deer Tag general-season table — controlled-hunt-only for deer in this unit.
Source: IDFG regulations (2026)
Nonresident licenses
Nonresident Regular Deer Tag
Availability: Draw — see notes
⚠️ No general season data for this species in this unit — see the regulation notes below for details.
No nonresident general-season Regular Deer tag is listed for this unit in the 2026 nonresident tag tables — controlled-hunt-only for nonresidents here, and nonresidents drawn for a controlled hunt are not counted against the nonresident quota.
IDFG does not publish a per-unit nonresident cap for this 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): 182 of 182 antlered deer harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All deer | Antlered | 4+ pt | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 1036 | 263 | 25.4% | 182 | 17.6% | 182 | 17.6% |
| 2024 | 1042 | 359 | 34.5% | 290 | 27.8% | 0 | 0% |
| 2023 | 1176 | 334 | 28.4% | 268 | 22.8% | 268 | 22.8% |
| 2022 | 1103 | 364 | 33% | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 1849 | 617 | 33.4% | 428 | 23.1% | 0 | 0% |
| 2020 | 1737 | 602 | 34.7% | 347 | 20% | 347 | 20% |
| 2019 | 1890 | 702 | 37.1% | 458 | 24.2% | 238 | 12.6% |
| 2018 | 1869 | 745 | 39.9% | 458 | 24.5% | 211 | 11.3% |
| 2017 | 1980 | 706 | 35.7% | 409 | 20.7% | 409 | 20.7% |
| 2016 | 1656 | 595 | 35.9% | 432 | 26.1% | 289 | 17.5% |
| 2015 | 1844 | 795 | 43.1% | 564 | 30.6% | 347 | 18.8% |
| 2014 | 1489 | 542 | 36.4% | 430 | 28.9% | 225 | 15.1% |
| 2013 | 1449 | 473 | 32.6% | 389 | 26.8% | 225 | 15.5% |
| 2012 | 1170 | 361 | 30.9% | 291 | 24.9% | 166 | 14.2% |
| 2011 | 1267 | 381 | 30.1% | 304 | 24% | 184 | 14.5% |
| 2010 | 1243 | 345 | 27.8% | 296 | 23.8% | 144 | 11.6% |
| 2009 | 1300 | 358 | 27.5% | 288 | 22.2% | 168 | 12.9% |
| 2008 | 1299 | 343 | 26.4% | 263 | 20.2% | 125 | 9.6% |
| 2007 | 1360 | 414 | 30.4% | 341 | 25.1% | 218 | 16% |
IDFG doesn't publish harvest by residency.
Source: IDFG harvest statistics, 2025.