Unit 20
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: 25 of 43 total bulls harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All | Spike | Bull | 6+ pt | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 315 | 43 | 13.7% | 7 | 2.2% | 36 | 11.4% | 25 | 7.9% |
| 2024 | 313 | 60 | 19.2% | 13 | 4.2% | 47 | 15% | 22 | 7% |
| 2023 | 249 | 34 | 13.7% | 4 | 1.6% | 30 | 12% | 10 | 4% |
| 2022 | 288 | 33 | 11.5% | 3 | 1% | 30 | 10.4% | 16 | 5.6% |
| 2021 | 238 | 35 | 14.7% | 4 | 1.7% | 31 | 13% | 14 | 5.9% |
| 2020 | 296 | 51 | 17.2% | 13 | 4.4% | 38 | 12.8% | 17 | 5.7% |
| 2019 | 324 | 53 | 16.4% | 4 | 1.2% | 49 | 15.1% | 20 | 6.2% |
| 2018 | 312 | 46 | 14.7% | 5 | 1.6% | 41 | 13.1% | 14 | 4.5% |
| 2017 | 243 | 43 | 17.7% | 5 | 2.1% | 38 | 15.6% | 7 | 2.9% |
| 2016 | 215 | 42 | 19.5% | 6 | 2.8% | 36 | 16.7% | 16 | 7.4% |
| 2015 | 151 | 22 | 14.6% | 2 | 1.3% | 20 | 13.2% | 14 | 9.3% |
| 2014 | 181 | 51 | 28.2% | 7 | 3.9% | 44 | 24.3% | 17 | 9.4% |
| 2013 | 118 | 31 | 26.3% | 1 | 0.8% | 30 | 25.4% | 12 | 10.2% |
| 2012 | 118 | 18 | 15.3% | 4 | 3.4% | 14 | 11.9% | 5 | 4.2% |
| 2011 | 163 | 20 | 12.3% | 1 | 0.6% | 19 | 11.7% | 13 | 8% |
| 2010 | 262 | 27 | 10.3% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2009 | 192 | 19 | 9.9% | 1 | 0.5% | 18 | 9.4% | 13 | 6.8% |
| 2008 | 273 | 36 | 13.2% | 3 | 1.1% | 33 | 12.1% | 10 | 3.7% |
| 2007 | 341 | 35 | 10.3% | 5 | 1.5% | 30 | 8.8% | 10 | 2.9% |
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 20 Regular Deer, nonresident hunt code RD20.
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 20 nonresident limit: 52 tags, plus 62 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): 51 of 89 antlered deer harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All deer | Antlered | 4+ pt | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 303 | 102 | 33.7% | 89 | 29.4% | 51 | 16.8% |
| 2024 | 302 | 138 | 45.7% | 101 | 33.4% | 57 | 18.9% |
| 2023 | 279 | 66 | 23.7% | 56 | 20.1% | 28 | 10% |
| 2022 | 300 | 125 | 41.7% | 97 | 32.3% | 38 | 12.7% |
| 2021 | 232 | 78 | 33.6% | 78 | 33.6% | 36 | 15.5% |
| 2020 | 308 | 99 | 32.1% | 90 | 29.2% | 32 | 10.4% |
| 2019 | 317 | 93 | 29.3% | 74 | 23.3% | 58 | 18.3% |
| 2018 | 441 | 193 | 43.8% | 139 | 31.5% | 83 | 18.8% |
| 2017 | 308 | 113 | 36.7% | 75 | 24.4% | 50 | 16.2% |
| 2016 | 280 | 105 | 37.5% | 80 | 28.6% | 64 | 22.9% |
| 2015 | 199 | 79 | 39.7% | 60 | 30.2% | 42 | 21.1% |
| 2014 | 293 | 76 | 25.9% | 61 | 20.8% | 23 | 7.8% |
| 2013 | 173 | 67 | 38.7% | 60 | 34.7% | 38 | 22% |
| 2012 | 183 | 46 | 25.1% | 40 | 21.9% | 22 | 12% |
| 2011 | 172 | 55 | 32% | 45 | 26.2% | 33 | 19.2% |
| 2010 | 243 | 83 | 34.2% | 61 | 25.1% | 48 | 19.8% |
| 2009 | 260 | 55 | 21.2% | 50 | 19.2% | 34 | 13.1% |
| 2008 | 306 | 56 | 18.3% | 49 | 16% | 27 | 8.8% |
| 2007 | 339 | 114 | 33.6% | 89 | 26.3% | 71 | 20.9% |
IDFG doesn't publish harvest by residency.
Source: IDFG harvest statistics, 2025.