Unit 44
Elk
Resident licenses
Smoky-Bennett Zone Elk Tag
Availability: General Season
✅ Includes bull elk
A Tag: Archery only — any elk, Units 43 and 48 only: Aug 30-Sep 30.
B Tag: Any weapon — antlerless only, Units 44, 45, and 52 only.
Source: IDFG regulations (2026)
Nonresident licenses
Nonresident Elk Zone Tag
Availability: Draw — see notes
✅ Includes bull elk
Smoky-Bennett Zone general elk tag (units 43, 44, 45, 48, 52).
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.
Smoky-Bennett Zone nonresident limits — A Tag: 180 nonresident tags (uncapped zone; 26 additional tags allocated to outfitters), archery-only season.
B Tag: 5 nonresident tags (capped zone — 600 total capped tags, of which 593 are resident tags and 2 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)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All | Spike | Bull | 6+ pt | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 337 | 77 | 22.8% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2024 | 325 | 52 | 16% | 0 | 0% | 5 | 1.5% | 4 | 1.2% |
| 2023 | 284 | 51 | 18% | 0 | 0% | 2 | 0.7% | 0 | 0% |
| 2022 | 234 | 49 | 20.9% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 272 | 61 | 22.4% | 4 | 1.5% | 1 | 0.4% | 1 | 0.4% |
| 2020 | 38 | 5 | 13.2% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2019 | 72 | 1 | 1.4% | 0 | 0% | 1 | 1.4% | 0 | 0% |
| 2018 | 22 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2017 | 15 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2016 | 449 | 111 | 24.7% | 110 | 24.5% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% |
| 2015 | 366 | 72 | 19.7% | 61 | 16.7% | 3 | 0.8% | 3 | 0.8% |
| 2014 | 150 | 25 | 16.7% | 24 | 16% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% |
| 2013 | 157 | 33 | 21% | 33 | 21% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% |
| 2012 | 154 | 27 | 17.5% | 27 | 17.5% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% |
| 2011 | 109 | 27 | 24.8% | 27 | 24.8% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% |
| 2010 | 92 | 13 | 14.1% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2009 | 180 | 15 | 8.3% | 15 | 8.3% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% |
| 2008 | 149 | 27 | 18.1% | 26 | 17.4% | 1 | 0.7% | 1 | 0.7% |
| 2007 | 88 | 15 | 17% | 15 | 17% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% |
IDFG doesn't publish harvest by residency.
Source: IDFG harvest statistics, 2025.
Deer
Resident licenses
Regular Deer Tag
Availability: Controlled Hunt
⚠️ No general season data for this species in this unit — see the regulation notes below for details.
Not listed in the 2026 Regular Deer Tag general-season table — controlled-hunt-only for deer in this unit.
Source: IDFG regulations (2026)
Nonresident licenses
Nonresident Regular Deer Tag
Availability: Draw — see notes
⚠️ No general season data for this species in this unit — see the regulation notes below for details.
No nonresident general-season Regular Deer tag is listed for this unit in the 2026 nonresident tag tables — controlled-hunt-only for nonresidents here, and nonresidents drawn for a controlled hunt are not counted against the nonresident quota.
IDFG does not publish a per-unit nonresident cap for this 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.
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All deer | Antlered | 4+ pt | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 80 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — | — |
| 2024 | 35 | 11 | 31.4% | 6 | 17.1% | 0 | 0% |
| 2023 | 53 | 5 | 9.4% | 5 | 9.4% | 0 | 0% |
| 2022 | 60 | 5 | 8.3% | 5 | 8.3% | 5 | 8.3% |
| 2021 | 88 | 21 | 23.9% | 11 | 12.5% | 6 | 6.8% |
| 2020 | 75 | 4 | 5.3% | 3 | 4% | 0 | 0% |
| 2019 | 104 | 1 | 1% | 1 | 1% | 1 | 1% |
| 2018 | 188 | 36 | 19.1% | 31 | 16.5% | 16 | 8.5% |
| 2017 | 100 | 19 | 19% | 16 | 16% | 0 | 0% |
| 2016 | 154 | 44 | 28.6% | 37 | 24% | 18 | 11.7% |
| 2015 | 100 | 26 | 26% | 17 | 17% | 17 | 17% |
| 2014 | 124 | 9 | 7.3% | 9 | 7.3% | 0 | 0% |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2012 | Not published | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2011 | 90 | 14 | 15.6% | 12 | 13.3% | 10 | 11.1% |
| 2010 | Not published | — | — | 0 | — | 0 | — |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | 0 | — |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2007 | Not published | — | — | — | — | — | — |
IDFG doesn't publish harvest by residency.
Source: IDFG harvest statistics, 2025.