Unit 19
Elk
Resident licenses
Selway Zone Elk Tag
Availability: General Season
✅ Includes bull elk
A Tag: Any weapon — antlered only Oct 1-Oct 31.
B Tag: Any weapon — antlered only (two windows).
Source: IDFG regulations (2026)
Nonresident licenses
Nonresident Elk Zone Tag
Availability: Draw — see notes
✅ Includes bull elk
Selway Zone general elk tag (units 16A, 17, 19, 20).
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.
Selway Zone nonresident limits — A Tag: 254 nonresident tags (capped zone — 647 total capped tags, of which 179 are resident tags and 214 are allocated to outfitters).
B Tag: 284 nonresident tags (capped zone — 1,067 total capped tags, of which 480 are resident tags and 303 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: 18 of 85 total bulls harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All | Spike | Bull | 6+ pt | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 445 | 85 | 19.1% | 14 | 3.1% | 71 | 16% | 18 | 4% |
| 2024 | 371 | 61 | 16.4% | 9 | 2.4% | 52 | 14% | 20 | 5.4% |
| 2023 | 397 | 77 | 19.4% | 11 | 2.8% | 66 | 16.6% | 32 | 8.1% |
| 2022 | 444 | 69 | 15.5% | 10 | 2.3% | 59 | 13.3% | 16 | 3.6% |
| 2021 | 343 | 72 | 21% | 10 | 2.9% | 62 | 18.1% | 24 | 7% |
| 2020 | 419 | 84 | 20% | 13 | 3.1% | 71 | 16.9% | 18 | 4.3% |
| 2019 | 413 | 81 | 19.6% | 5 | 1.2% | 76 | 18.4% | 35 | 8.5% |
| 2018 | 417 | 91 | 21.8% | 19 | 4.6% | 72 | 17.3% | 32 | 7.7% |
| 2017 | 373 | 78 | 20.9% | 9 | 2.4% | 69 | 18.5% | 22 | 5.9% |
| 2016 | 322 | 75 | 23.3% | 22 | 6.8% | 53 | 16.5% | 27 | 8.4% |
| 2015 | 299 | 68 | 22.7% | 15 | 5% | 53 | 17.7% | 22 | 7.4% |
| 2014 | 303 | 72 | 23.8% | 13 | 4.3% | 59 | 19.5% | 29 | 9.6% |
| 2013 | 311 | 78 | 25.1% | 7 | 2.3% | 71 | 22.8% | 39 | 12.5% |
| 2012 | 210 | 58 | 27.6% | 5 | 2.4% | 53 | 25.2% | 13 | 6.2% |
| 2011 | 300 | 51 | 17% | 4 | 1.3% | 47 | 15.7% | 26 | 8.7% |
| 2010 | 258 | 45 | 17.4% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2009 | 276 | 57 | 20.7% | 2 | 0.7% | 55 | 19.9% | 36 | 13% |
| 2008 | 403 | 76 | 18.9% | 8 | 2% | 68 | 16.9% | 40 | 9.9% |
| 2007 | 283 | 52 | 18.4% | 5 | 1.8% | 47 | 16.6% | 25 | 8.8% |
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: Sep 15 - Nov 20.
Antlerless: Sep 15 - Nov 20.
Source: IDFG regulations (2026)
Nonresident licenses
Nonresident Regular Deer Tag
Availability: Draw — see notes
✅ Includes antlered deer opportunity (all deer)
Unit 19 Regular Deer, nonresident hunt code RD19.
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 19 nonresident limit: 160 tags, plus 31 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): 74 of 94 antlered deer harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All deer | Antlered | 4+ pt | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 402 | 103 | 25.6% | 94 | 23.4% | 74 | 18.4% |
| 2024 | 394 | 145 | 36.8% | 120 | 30.5% | 91 | 23.1% |
| 2023 | 454 | 126 | 27.8% | 118 | 26% | 55 | 12.1% |
| 2022 | 462 | 129 | 27.9% | 94 | 20.3% | 55 | 11.9% |
| 2021 | 464 | 128 | 27.6% | 95 | 20.5% | 49 | 10.6% |
| 2020 | 463 | 149 | 32.2% | 109 | 23.5% | 59 | 12.7% |
| 2019 | 543 | 157 | 28.9% | 121 | 22.3% | 94 | 17.3% |
| 2018 | 614 | 206 | 33.6% | 178 | 29% | 110 | 17.9% |
| 2017 | 512 | 192 | 37.5% | 155 | 30.3% | 115 | 22.5% |
| 2016 | 452 | 182 | 40.3% | 149 | 33% | 85 | 18.8% |
| 2015 | 376 | 120 | 31.9% | 111 | 29.5% | 75 | 19.9% |
| 2014 | 400 | 107 | 26.8% | 91 | 22.8% | 45 | 11.3% |
| 2013 | 386 | 98 | 25.4% | 87 | 22.5% | 53 | 13.7% |
| 2012 | 283 | 78 | 27.6% | 69 | 24.4% | 45 | 15.9% |
| 2011 | 321 | 77 | 24% | 64 | 19.9% | 33 | 10.3% |
| 2010 | 330 | 104 | 31.5% | 69 | 20.9% | 32 | 9.7% |
| 2009 | 326 | 95 | 29.1% | 83 | 25.5% | 46 | 14.1% |
| 2008 | 371 | 86 | 23.2% | 71 | 19.1% | 36 | 9.7% |
| 2007 | 413 | 124 | 30% | 99 | 24% | 58 | 14% |
IDFG doesn't publish harvest by residency.
Source: IDFG harvest statistics, 2025.