Unit 5
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: 47 of 333 total bulls harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All | Spike | Bull | 6+ pt | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 2166 | 369 | 17% | 127 | 5.9% | 206 | 9.5% | 47 | 2.2% |
| 2024 | 2558 | 423 | 16.5% | 113 | 4.4% | 193 | 7.5% | 31 | 1.2% |
| 2023 | 2396 | 480 | 20% | 82 | 3.4% | 247 | 10.3% | 43 | 1.8% |
| 2022 | 2172 | 312 | 14.4% | 50 | 2.3% | 157 | 7.2% | 17 | 0.8% |
| 2021 | 2332 | 355 | 15.2% | 114 | 4.9% | 139 | 6% | 20 | 0.9% |
| 2020 | 2901 | 383 | 13.2% | 103 | 3.6% | 147 | 5.1% | 38 | 1.3% |
| 2019 | 2616 | 497 | 19% | 155 | 5.9% | 168 | 6.4% | 39 | 1.5% |
| 2018 | 2283 | 361 | 15.8% | 103 | 4.5% | 99 | 4.3% | 8 | 0.4% |
| 2017 | 2416 | 391 | 16.2% | 114 | 4.7% | 110 | 4.6% | 11 | 0.5% |
| 2016 | 1537 | 191 | 12.4% | 73 | 4.7% | 118 | 7.7% | 8 | 0.5% |
| 2015 | 1664 | 85 | 5.1% | 69 | 4.1% | 16 | 1% | 0 | 0% |
| 2014 | 1716 | 364 | 21.2% | 176 | 10.3% | 188 | 11% | 0 | 0% |
| 2013 | 1434 | 194 | 13.5% | 75 | 5.2% | 119 | 8.3% | 15 | 1% |
| 2012 | 1274 | 215 | 16.9% | 77 | 6% | 134 | 10.5% | 19 | 1.5% |
| 2011 | 1773 | 284 | 16% | 58 | 3.3% | 111 | 6.3% | 13 | 0.7% |
| 2010 | 1260 | 292 | 23.2% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2009 | 1293 | 220 | 17% | 57 | 4.4% | 106 | 8.2% | 12 | 0.9% |
| 2008 | 1548 | 245 | 15.8% | 59 | 3.8% | 92 | 5.9% | 12 | 0.8% |
| 2007 | 1381 | 305 | 22.1% | 73 | 5.3% | 110 | 8% | 21 | 1.5% |
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 5 Regular Deer, nonresident hunt code RD5.
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 5 nonresident limit: 201 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): 378 of 755 antlered deer harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All deer | Antlered | 4+ pt | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 2814 | 1055 | 37.5% | 755 | 26.8% | 378 | 13.4% |
| 2024 | 2897 | 1186 | 40.9% | 914 | 31.5% | 0 | 0% |
| 2023 | 2872 | 1241 | 43.2% | — | — | — | — |
| 2022 | 2739 | 1036 | 37.8% | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 2846 | 1144 | 40.2% | — | — | — | — |
| 2020 | 3343 | 1302 | 38.9% | 934 | 27.9% | 0 | 0% |
| 2019 | 3466 | 1116 | 32.2% | — | — | — | — |
| 2018 | 3806 | 1363 | 35.8% | 875 | 23% | 438 | 11.5% |
| 2017 | 3633 | 1312 | 36.1% | 884 | 24.3% | 309 | 8.5% |
| 2016 | 3548 | 1418 | 40% | 1040 | 29.3% | 863 | 24.3% |
| 2015 | 3983 | 1664 | 41.8% | 1180 | 29.6% | 828 | 20.8% |
| 2014 | 3880 | 1921 | 49.5% | 1309 | 33.7% | 842 | 21.7% |
| 2013 | 3519 | 1256 | 35.7% | 889 | 25.3% | 546 | 15.5% |
| 2012 | 3278 | 1466 | 44.7% | 991 | 30.2% | 707 | 21.6% |
| 2011 | 2865 | 1037 | 36.2% | 747 | 26.1% | 450 | 15.7% |
| 2010 | 2255 | 817 | 36.2% | 695 | 30.8% | 459 | 20.4% |
| 2009 | 2564 | 762 | 29.7% | 674 | 26.3% | 491 | 19.1% |
| 2008 | 2502 | 879 | 35.1% | 671 | 26.8% | 466 | 18.6% |
| 2007 | 2409 | 1061 | 44% | 780 | 32.4% | 532 | 22.1% |
IDFG doesn't publish harvest by residency.
Source: IDFG harvest statistics, 2025.