Unit 30
Elk
Resident licenses
Beaverhead Zone Elk Tag
Availability: General Season
✅ Includes bull elk
A Tag: Archery only — any elk Aug 30-Sep 30.
B Tag: No B Tags in this Zone — See Controlled Hunts.
Source: IDFG regulations (2026)
Nonresident licenses
Nonresident Elk Zone Tag
Availability: Draw — see notes
✅ Includes bull elk
Beaverhead Zone general elk tag (units 30, 30A, 58, 59, 59A).
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.
Beaverhead Zone nonresident limits — A Tag: 263 nonresident tags (uncapped zone; 16 additional tags allocated to outfitters).
B Tag: no B Tags are offered in this zone.
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: 6 of 14 total bulls harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All | Spike | Bull | 6+ pt | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 284 | 66 | 23.2% | 1 | 0.4% | 13 | 4.6% | 6 | 2.1% |
| 2024 | 278 | 32 | 11.5% | 0 | 0% | 16 | 5.8% | 10 | 3.6% |
| 2023 | 324 | 48 | 14.8% | 1 | 0.3% | 17 | 5.2% | 9 | 2.8% |
| 2022 | 367 | 78 | 21.3% | 5 | 1.4% | 7 | 1.9% | 6 | 1.6% |
| 2021 | 324 | 105 | 32.4% | 7 | 2.2% | 11 | 3.4% | 5 | 1.5% |
| 2020 | 670 | 158 | 23.6% | 9 | 1.3% | 11 | 1.6% | 4 | 0.6% |
| 2019 | 586 | 152 | 25.9% | 7 | 1.2% | 42 | 7.2% | 21 | 3.6% |
| 2018 | 386 | 76 | 19.7% | 13 | 3.4% | 11 | 2.8% | 5 | 1.3% |
| 2017 | 422 | 88 | 20.9% | 7 | 1.7% | 21 | 5% | 7 | 1.7% |
| 2016 | 337 | 128 | 38% | 8 | 2.4% | 37 | 11% | 22 | 6.5% |
| 2015 | 402 | 126 | 31.3% | 5 | 1.2% | 21 | 5.2% | 9 | 2.2% |
| 2014 | 375 | 107 | 28.5% | 4 | 1.1% | 28 | 7.5% | 16 | 4.3% |
| 2013 | 264 | 92 | 34.8% | 1 | 0.4% | 17 | 6.4% | 10 | 3.8% |
| 2012 | 281 | 80 | 28.5% | 2 | 0.7% | 25 | 8.9% | 14 | 5% |
| 2011 | 249 | 59 | 23.7% | 3 | 1.2% | 14 | 5.6% | 8 | 3.2% |
| 2010 | 244 | 62 | 25.4% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2009 | 264 | 55 | 20.8% | 8 | 3% | 9 | 3.4% | 4 | 1.5% |
| 2008 | 232 | 53 | 22.8% | 1 | 0.4% | 12 | 5.2% | 3 | 1.3% |
| 2007 | 296 | 62 | 20.9% | 13 | 4.4% | 12 | 4.1% | 5 | 1.7% |
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 24.
Antlerless: Oct 10 - Oct 31 (Youth hunt only on Private land only).
Source: IDFG regulations (2026)
Nonresident licenses
Nonresident Regular Deer Tag
Availability: Draw — see notes
✅ Includes antlered deer opportunity (all deer)
Unit 30 Regular Deer, nonresident hunt code RD30.
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 30 nonresident limit: 111 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): 66 of 264 antlered deer harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All deer | Antlered | 4+ pt | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 827 | 288 | 34.8% | 264 | 31.9% | 66 | 8% |
| 2024 | 890 | 405 | 45.5% | 349 | 39.2% | 150 | 16.9% |
| 2023 | 760 | 191 | 25.1% | 153 | 20.1% | 21 | 2.8% |
| 2022 | 869 | 289 | 33.3% | 236 | 27.2% | 54 | 6.2% |
| 2021 | 954 | 346 | 36.3% | 300 | 31.4% | 66 | 6.9% |
| 2020 | 1231 | 383 | 31.1% | 320 | 26% | 64 | 5.2% |
| 2019 | 1206 | 430 | 35.7% | 354 | 29.4% | 99 | 8.2% |
| 2018 | 1159 | 393 | 33.9% | 359 | 31% | 86 | 7.4% |
| 2017 | 1159 | 512 | 44.2% | 459 | 39.6% | 110 | 9.5% |
| 2016 | 880 | 480 | 54.5% | 407 | 46.3% | 122 | 13.9% |
| 2015 | 926 | 381 | 41.1% | 318 | 34.3% | 102 | 11% |
| 2014 | 901 | 401 | 44.5% | 387 | 43% | 166 | 18.4% |
| 2013 | 929 | 385 | 41.4% | 325 | 35% | 119 | 12.8% |
| 2012 | 828 | 374 | 45.2% | 341 | 41.2% | 149 | 18% |
| 2011 | 891 | 379 | 42.5% | 342 | 38.4% | 134 | 15% |
| 2010 | 720 | 246 | 34.2% | 230 | 31.9% | 73 | 10.1% |
| 2009 | 766 | 281 | 36.7% | 255 | 33.3% | 51 | 6.7% |
| 2008 | 760 | 254 | 33.4% | 230 | 30.3% | 53 | 7% |
| 2007 | 869 | 329 | 37.9% | 316 | 36.4% | 101 | 11.6% |
IDFG doesn't publish harvest by residency.
Source: IDFG harvest statistics, 2025.