Unit 3
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: 26 of 213 total bulls harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All | Spike | Bull | 6+ pt | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 2982 | 275 | 9.2% | 60 | 2% | 153 | 5.1% | 26 | 0.9% |
| 2024 | 3131 | 272 | 8.7% | 82 | 2.6% | 88 | 2.8% | 32 | 1% |
| 2023 | 3261 | 340 | 10.4% | 81 | 2.5% | 157 | 4.8% | 43 | 1.3% |
| 2022 | 2845 | 353 | 12.4% | 65 | 2.3% | 175 | 6.2% | 29 | 1% |
| 2021 | 3180 | 321 | 10.1% | 61 | 1.9% | 135 | 4.2% | 14 | 0.4% |
| 2020 | 3165 | 386 | 12.2% | 114 | 3.6% | 150 | 4.7% | 8 | 0.3% |
| 2019 | 3406 | 414 | 12.2% | 82 | 2.4% | 174 | 5.1% | 46 | 1.4% |
| 2018 | 3474 | 488 | 14% | 162 | 4.7% | 123 | 3.5% | 37 | 1.1% |
| 2017 | 3654 | 466 | 12.8% | 101 | 2.8% | 179 | 4.9% | 48 | 1.3% |
| 2016 | 2675 | 254 | 9.5% | 97 | 3.6% | 157 | 5.9% | 23 | 0.9% |
| 2015 | 3280 | 245 | 7.5% | 69 | 2.1% | 176 | 5.4% | 53 | 1.6% |
| 2014 | 2250 | 91 | 4% | 25 | 1.1% | 66 | 2.9% | 22 | 1% |
| 2013 | 2758 | 216 | 7.8% | 72 | 2.6% | 144 | 5.2% | 62 | 2.2% |
| 2012 | 2349 | 206 | 8.8% | 41 | 1.7% | 161 | 6.9% | 57 | 2.4% |
| 2011 | 2898 | 338 | 11.7% | 86 | 3% | 123 | 4.2% | 34 | 1.2% |
| 2010 | 2730 | 373 | 13.7% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2009 | 2375 | 262 | 11% | 55 | 2.3% | 135 | 5.7% | 34 | 1.4% |
| 2008 | 3078 | 318 | 10.3% | 59 | 1.9% | 114 | 3.7% | 38 | 1.2% |
| 2007 | 2116 | 250 | 11.8% | 42 | 2% | 112 | 5.3% | 27 | 1.3% |
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 3 Regular Deer, nonresident hunt code RD3.
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 3 nonresident limit: 295 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): 895 of 895 antlered deer harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All deer | Antlered | 4+ pt | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 4016 | 1258 | 31.3% | 895 | 22.3% | 895 | 22.3% |
| 2024 | 3652 | 1135 | 31.1% | 805 | 22% | 805 | 22% |
| 2023 | 4061 | 1269 | 31.2% | 969 | 23.9% | 0 | 0% |
| 2022 | 3687 | 909 | 24.7% | 667 | 18.1% | 0 | 0% |
| 2021 | 3872 | 1003 | 25.9% | 724 | 18.7% | 275 | 7.1% |
| 2020 | 4121 | 1254 | 30.4% | 922 | 22.4% | 286 | 6.9% |
| 2019 | 4472 | 1090 | 24.4% | 830 | 18.6% | 291 | 6.5% |
| 2018 | 4502 | 1295 | 28.8% | 907 | 20.1% | 0 | 0% |
| 2017 | 4549 | 1429 | 31.4% | 962 | 21.1% | 106 | 2.3% |
| 2016 | 5014 | 1397 | 27.9% | 1052 | 21% | 442 | 8.8% |
| 2015 | 5551 | 1767 | 31.8% | 1103 | 19.9% | 617 | 11.1% |
| 2014 | 5592 | 1816 | 32.5% | 1096 | 19.6% | 657 | 11.7% |
| 2013 | 5362 | 1529 | 28.5% | 1082 | 20.2% | 598 | 11.2% |
| 2012 | 5276 | 1675 | 31.7% | 1098 | 20.8% | 635 | 12% |
| 2011 | 4521 | 1318 | 29.2% | 933 | 20.6% | 546 | 12.1% |
| 2010 | 4336 | 1043 | 24.1% | 870 | 20.1% | 532 | 12.3% |
| 2009 | 4746 | 1046 | 22% | 823 | 17.3% | 504 | 10.6% |
| 2008 | 5329 | 1407 | 26.4% | 976 | 18.3% | 642 | 12% |
| 2007 | 4071 | 1367 | 33.6% | 966 | 23.7% | 634 | 15.6% |
IDFG doesn't publish harvest by residency.
Source: IDFG harvest statistics, 2025.