Unit 2
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: 16 of 65 total bulls harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All | Spike | Bull | 6+ pt | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 1466 | 81 | 5.5% | 21 | 1.4% | 44 | 3% | 16 | 1.1% |
| 2024 | 1601 | 118 | 7.4% | 13 | 0.8% | 68 | 4.2% | 15 | 0.9% |
| 2023 | 1580 | 132 | 8.4% | 33 | 2.1% | 43 | 2.7% | 2 | 0.1% |
| 2022 | 1511 | 92 | 6.1% | 13 | 0.9% | 50 | 3.3% | 1 | 0.1% |
| 2021 | 1760 | 92 | 5.2% | 22 | 1.3% | 48 | 2.7% | 13 | 0.7% |
| 2020 | 1665 | 193 | 11.6% | 26 | 1.6% | 72 | 4.3% | 36 | 2.2% |
| 2019 | 1777 | 110 | 6.2% | 26 | 1.5% | 25 | 1.4% | 12 | 0.7% |
| 2018 | 1750 | 175 | 10% | 44 | 2.5% | 43 | 2.5% | 2 | 0.1% |
| 2017 | 1992 | 151 | 7.6% | 27 | 1.4% | 56 | 2.8% | 35 | 1.8% |
| 2016 | 1465 | 125 | 8.5% | 68 | 4.6% | 57 | 3.9% | 11 | 0.8% |
| 2015 | 1261 | 16 | 1.3% | 16 | 1.3% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% |
| 2014 | 1871 | 135 | 7.2% | 44 | 2.4% | 91 | 4.9% | 25 | 1.3% |
| 2013 | 1352 | 95 | 7% | 24 | 1.8% | 66 | 4.9% | 11 | 0.8% |
| 2012 | 1137 | 65 | 5.7% | 21 | 1.8% | 41 | 3.6% | 11 | 1% |
| 2011 | 1450 | 82 | 5.7% | 15 | 1% | 39 | 2.7% | 11 | 0.8% |
| 2010 | 1147 | 92 | 8% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2009 | 1241 | 88 | 7.1% | 17 | 1.4% | 45 | 3.6% | 3 | 0.2% |
| 2008 | 1548 | 107 | 6.9% | 24 | 1.6% | 31 | 2% | 7 | 0.5% |
| 2007 | 1253 | 123 | 9.8% | 22 | 1.8% | 50 | 4% | 17 | 1.4% |
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 - 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 2 Regular Deer, nonresident hunt code RD2.
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 2 nonresident limit: 306 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): 578 of 918 antlered deer harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All deer | Antlered | 4+ pt | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 4022 | 1351 | 33.6% | 918 | 22.8% | 578 | 14.4% |
| 2024 | 3878 | 1370 | 35.3% | 987 | 25.5% | 0 | 0% |
| 2023 | 3798 | 1210 | 31.9% | — | — | — | — |
| 2022 | 3980 | 1260 | 31.7% | 879 | 22.1% | 554 | 13.9% |
| 2021 | 3748 | 1380 | 36.8% | 974 | 26% | 487 | 13% |
| 2020 | 4037 | 1431 | 35.4% | 937 | 23.2% | 0 | 0% |
| 2019 | 4459 | 1356 | 30.4% | — | — | — | — |
| 2018 | 4468 | 1457 | 32.6% | 978 | 21.9% | 0 | 0% |
| 2017 | 4602 | 1605 | 34.9% | 1079 | 23.4% | 1079 | 23.4% |
| 2016 | 4814 | 1751 | 36.4% | 1194 | 24.8% | 0 | 0% |
| 2015 | 5132 | 2102 | 41% | 1524 | 29.7% | 832 | 16.2% |
| 2014 | 5124 | 2037 | 39.8% | 1368 | 26.7% | 659 | 12.9% |
| 2013 | 4545 | 1404 | 30.9% | 953 | 21% | 489 | 10.8% |
| 2012 | 4390 | 1648 | 37.5% | 1067 | 24.3% | 589 | 13.4% |
| 2011 | 3678 | 1216 | 33.1% | 820 | 22.3% | 435 | 11.8% |
| 2010 | 3305 | 911 | 27.6% | 775 | 23.4% | 456 | 13.8% |
| 2009 | 4022 | 1010 | 25.1% | 884 | 22% | 580 | 14.4% |
| 2008 | 4444 | 1327 | 29.9% | 975 | 21.9% | 644 | 14.5% |
| 2007 | 3884 | 1505 | 38.7% | 1054 | 27.1% | 681 | 17.5% |
IDFG doesn't publish harvest by residency.
Source: IDFG harvest statistics, 2025.