Unit 39
Elk
Resident licenses
Boise River Zone Elk Tag
Availability: General Season
✅ Includes bull elk
A Tag: Archery only — any elk, Unit 39 only.
B Tag: Any weapon — antlered only, Unit 39 only; Any weapon — any elk, Unit 38 only.
Source: IDFG regulations (2026)
Nonresident licenses
Nonresident Elk Zone Tag
Availability: Draw — see notes
✅ Includes bull elk
Boise River Zone general elk tag (units 38, 39).
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.
Boise River Zone nonresident limits — A Tag: 26 nonresident tags (uncapped zone; 0 additional tags allocated to outfitters), archery-only season.
B Tag: 354 nonresident tags (uncapped zone; 0 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: 111 of 527 total bulls harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All | Spike | Bull | 6+ pt | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 4238 | 537 | 12.7% | 190 | 4.5% | 337 | 8% | 111 | 2.6% |
| 2024 | 4406 | 587 | 13.3% | 188 | 4.3% | 382 | 8.7% | 125 | 2.8% |
| 2023 | 4814 | 580 | 12% | 182 | 3.8% | 388 | 8.1% | 148 | 3.1% |
| 2022 | 3487 | 456 | 13.1% | 107 | 3.1% | 322 | 9.2% | 120 | 3.4% |
| 2021 | 3769 | 420 | 11.1% | 111 | 2.9% | 301 | 8% | 99 | 2.6% |
| 2020 | 3606 | 444 | 12.3% | 109 | 3% | 327 | 9.1% | 100 | 2.8% |
| 2019 | 3502 | 503 | 14.4% | 115 | 3.3% | 383 | 10.9% | 164 | 4.7% |
| 2018 | 3850 | 445 | 11.6% | 102 | 2.6% | 322 | 8.4% | 144 | 3.7% |
| 2017 | 3794 | 558 | 14.7% | 208 | 5.5% | 339 | 8.9% | 153 | 4% |
| 2016 | 3652 | 577 | 15.8% | 185 | 5.1% | 392 | 10.7% | 138 | 3.8% |
| 2015 | 4080 | 602 | 14.8% | 231 | 5.7% | 356 | 8.7% | 122 | 3% |
| 2014 | 3909 | 635 | 16.2% | 132 | 3.4% | 477 | 12.2% | 164 | 4.2% |
| 2013 | 3496 | 405 | 11.6% | 145 | 4.1% | 246 | 7% | 109 | 3.1% |
| 2012 | 3833 | 517 | 13.5% | 152 | 4% | 275 | 7.2% | 107 | 2.8% |
| 2011 | 3744 | 430 | 11.5% | 137 | 3.7% | 197 | 5.3% | 80 | 2.1% |
| 2010 | 3678 | 442 | 12% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2009 | 4319 | 489 | 11.3% | 153 | 3.5% | 245 | 5.7% | 68 | 1.6% |
| 2008 | 4899 | 508 | 10.4% | 132 | 2.7% | 304 | 6.2% | 139 | 2.8% |
| 2007 | 3910 | 688 | 17.6% | 195 | 5% | 375 | 9.6% | 139 | 3.6% |
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.
Antlerless: Oct 10 - Oct 31 (Youth hunt only).
Source: IDFG regulations (2026)
Nonresident licenses
Nonresident Regular Deer Tag
Availability: Draw — see notes
✅ Includes antlered deer opportunity (all deer)
Unit 39 Regular Deer, nonresident hunt code RD39.
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 39 nonresident limit: 1,190 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): 614 of 1753 antlered deer harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All deer | Antlered | 4+ pt | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 10929 | 2145 | 19.6% | 1753 | 16% | 614 | 5.6% |
| 2024 | 10683 | 1990 | 18.6% | 1564 | 14.6% | 391 | 3.7% |
| 2023 | 11888 | 1867 | 15.7% | 1451 | 12.2% | 450 | 3.8% |
| 2022 | 11812 | 2019 | 17.1% | 1561 | 13.2% | 343 | 2.9% |
| 2021 | 12370 | 2679 | 21.7% | 2054 | 16.6% | 616 | 5% |
| 2020 | 13516 | 2420 | 17.9% | 1799 | 13.3% | 522 | 3.9% |
| 2019 | 13547 | 2706 | 20% | 2056 | 15.2% | 699 | 5.2% |
| 2018 | 14490 | 3251 | 22.4% | 2545 | 17.6% | 713 | 4.9% |
| 2017 | 15505 | 3428 | 22.1% | 2761 | 17.8% | 966 | 6.2% |
| 2016 | 13154 | 4175 | 31.7% | 3396 | 25.8% | 1426 | 10.8% |
| 2015 | 13201 | 3603 | 27.3% | 2653 | 20.1% | 963 | 7.3% |
| 2014 | 12565 | 2284 | 18.2% | 1759 | 14% | 677 | 5.4% |
| 2013 | 11067 | 2068 | 18.7% | 1619 | 14.6% | 497 | 4.5% |
| 2012 | 9187 | 2265 | 24.7% | 1757 | 19.1% | 650 | 7.1% |
| 2011 | 10896 | 1550 | 14.2% | 1169 | 10.7% | 397 | 3.6% |
| 2010 | 10379 | 1990 | 19.2% | 1478 | 14.2% | 406 | 3.9% |
| 2009 | 10484 | 2340 | 22.3% | 1727 | 16.5% | 508 | 4.8% |
| 2008 | 10574 | 1605 | 15.2% | 1116 | 10.6% | 282 | 2.7% |
| 2007 | 11840 | 3373 | 28.5% | 2592 | 21.9% | 876 | 7.4% |
IDFG doesn't publish harvest by residency.
Source: IDFG harvest statistics, 2025.