Unit 15
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: 37 of 132 total bulls harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All | Spike | Bull | 6+ pt | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 752 | 132 | 17.6% | 46 | 6.1% | 86 | 11.4% | 37 | 4.9% |
| 2024 | 629 | 84 | 13.4% | 21 | 3.3% | 63 | 10% | 24 | 3.8% |
| 2023 | 694 | 78 | 11.2% | 16 | 2.3% | 60 | 8.6% | 20 | 2.9% |
| 2022 | 705 | 92 | 13% | 11 | 1.6% | 59 | 8.4% | 24 | 3.4% |
| 2021 | 714 | 96 | 13.4% | 18 | 2.5% | 53 | 7.4% | 9 | 1.3% |
| 2020 | 738 | 89 | 12.1% | 15 | 2% | 67 | 9.1% | 13 | 1.8% |
| 2019 | 812 | 91 | 11.2% | 31 | 3.8% | 48 | 5.9% | 18 | 2.2% |
| 2018 | 944 | 79 | 8.4% | 13 | 1.4% | 51 | 5.4% | 37 | 3.9% |
| 2017 | 953 | 99 | 10.4% | 46 | 4.8% | 44 | 4.6% | 17 | 1.8% |
| 2016 | 922 | 145 | 15.7% | 22 | 2.4% | 93 | 10.1% | 22 | 2.4% |
| 2015 | 1008 | 188 | 18.7% | 68 | 6.7% | 101 | 10% | 60 | 6% |
| 2014 | 1045 | 132 | 12.6% | 9 | 0.9% | 93 | 8.9% | 43 | 4.1% |
| 2013 | 1090 | 106 | 9.7% | 23 | 2.1% | 69 | 6.3% | 37 | 3.4% |
| 2012 | 1060 | 107 | 10.1% | 47 | 4.4% | 48 | 4.5% | 23 | 2.2% |
| 2011 | 1005 | 112 | 11.1% | 25 | 2.5% | 56 | 5.6% | 23 | 2.3% |
| 2010 | 1096 | 153 | 14% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2009 | 1164 | 159 | 13.7% | 33 | 2.8% | 86 | 7.4% | 33 | 2.8% |
| 2008 | 1372 | 136 | 9.9% | 38 | 2.8% | 82 | 6% | 40 | 2.9% |
| 2007 | 1103 | 188 | 17% | 41 | 3.7% | 127 | 11.5% | 37 | 3.4% |
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 - Nov 3.
Antlerless: Oct 10 - Nov 3.
Source: IDFG regulations (2026)
Nonresident licenses
Nonresident Regular Deer Tag
Availability: Draw — see notes
✅ Includes antlered deer opportunity (all deer)
Unit 15 Regular Deer, nonresident hunt code RD15.
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 15 nonresident limit: 61 tags, plus 0 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): 344 of 687 antlered deer harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All deer | Antlered | 4+ pt | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 2317 | 973 | 42% | 687 | 29.7% | 344 | 14.8% |
| 2024 | 2419 | 1081 | 44.7% | 724 | 29.9% | 471 | 19.5% |
| 2023 | 1965 | 752 | 38.3% | 557 | 28.3% | 0 | 0% |
| 2022 | 1759 | 692 | 39.3% | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 2590 | 1026 | 39.6% | 638 | 24.6% | 319 | 12.3% |
| 2020 | 2583 | 1163 | 45% | 795 | 30.8% | 533 | 20.6% |
| 2019 | 2654 | 1042 | 39.3% | 666 | 25.1% | 333 | 12.5% |
| 2018 | 2843 | 1296 | 45.6% | 873 | 30.7% | 585 | 20.6% |
| 2017 | 2402 | 1015 | 42.3% | 676 | 28.1% | 216 | 9% |
| 2016 | 2403 | 1068 | 44.4% | 737 | 30.7% | 472 | 19.6% |
| 2015 | 2516 | 1291 | 51.3% | 922 | 36.6% | 462 | 18.4% |
| 2014 | 2449 | 1097 | 44.8% | 659 | 26.9% | 365 | 14.9% |
| 2013 | 2260 | 887 | 39.2% | 613 | 27.1% | 324 | 14.3% |
| 2012 | 2251 | 908 | 40.3% | 583 | 25.9% | 330 | 14.7% |
| 2011 | 2302 | 997 | 43.3% | 693 | 30.1% | 385 | 16.7% |
| 2010 | 2588 | 947 | 36.6% | 694 | 26.8% | 377 | 14.6% |
| 2009 | 2478 | 914 | 36.9% | 613 | 24.7% | 324 | 13.1% |
| 2008 | 2682 | 1042 | 38.9% | 698 | 26% | 385 | 14.4% |
| 2007 | 2662 | 1091 | 41% | 810 | 30.4% | 462 | 17.4% |
IDFG doesn't publish harvest by residency.
Source: IDFG harvest statistics, 2025.