Unit 6
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: 91 of 567 total bulls harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All | Spike | Bull | 6+ pt | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 3685 | 589 | 16% | 193 | 5.2% | 374 | 10.1% | 91 | 2.5% |
| 2024 | 3810 | 544 | 14.3% | 132 | 3.5% | 307 | 8.1% | 97 | 2.5% |
| 2023 | 3911 | 640 | 16.4% | 115 | 2.9% | 327 | 8.4% | 80 | 2% |
| 2022 | 3600 | 513 | 14.3% | 127 | 3.5% | 246 | 6.8% | 60 | 1.7% |
| 2021 | 3519 | 552 | 15.7% | 138 | 3.9% | 216 | 6.1% | 74 | 2.1% |
| 2020 | 3762 | 644 | 17.1% | 127 | 3.4% | 310 | 8.2% | 83 | 2.2% |
| 2019 | 3336 | 517 | 15.5% | 119 | 3.6% | 278 | 8.3% | 48 | 1.4% |
| 2018 | 3187 | 600 | 18.8% | 173 | 5.4% | 238 | 7.5% | 70 | 2.2% |
| 2017 | 3080 | 542 | 17.6% | 145 | 4.7% | 171 | 5.6% | 35 | 1.1% |
| 2016 | 2601 | 521 | 20% | 172 | 6.6% | 348 | 13.4% | 83 | 3.2% |
| 2015 | 2941 | 443 | 15.1% | 183 | 6.2% | 260 | 8.8% | 107 | 3.6% |
| 2014 | 2432 | 414 | 17% | 160 | 6.6% | 229 | 9.4% | 69 | 2.8% |
| 2013 | 2226 | 322 | 14.5% | 97 | 4.4% | 225 | 10.1% | 45 | 2% |
| 2012 | 2144 | 290 | 13.5% | 70 | 3.3% | 220 | 10.3% | 89 | 4.2% |
| 2011 | 2680 | 364 | 13.6% | 57 | 2.1% | 204 | 7.6% | 74 | 2.8% |
| 2010 | 2833 | 524 | 18.5% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2009 | 2827 | 442 | 15.6% | 53 | 1.9% | 223 | 7.9% | 64 | 2.3% |
| 2008 | 3934 | 524 | 13.3% | 96 | 2.4% | 257 | 6.5% | 68 | 1.7% |
| 2007 | 3575 | 805 | 22.5% | 170 | 4.8% | 292 | 8.2% | 85 | 2.4% |
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 6 Regular Deer, nonresident hunt code RD6.
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 6 nonresident limit: 336 tags, plus 33 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): 411 of 1175 antlered deer harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All deer | Antlered | 4+ pt | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 3961 | 1559 | 39.4% | 1175 | 29.7% | 411 | 10.4% |
| 2024 | 3616 | 1364 | 37.7% | 978 | 27% | 313 | 8.7% |
| 2023 | 3485 | 1272 | 36.5% | 916 | 26.3% | 192 | 5.5% |
| 2022 | 3235 | 1192 | 36.8% | 835 | 25.8% | 109 | 3.4% |
| 2021 | 3382 | 1130 | 33.4% | 766 | 22.6% | 214 | 6.3% |
| 2020 | 3687 | 1324 | 35.9% | 869 | 23.6% | 243 | 6.6% |
| 2019 | 3626 | 1076 | 29.7% | 754 | 20.8% | 241 | 6.6% |
| 2018 | 3704 | 1197 | 32.3% | 807 | 21.8% | 194 | 5.2% |
| 2017 | 3351 | 1249 | 37.3% | 816 | 24.4% | 163 | 4.9% |
| 2016 | 3243 | 1271 | 39.2% | 974 | 30% | 244 | 7.5% |
| 2015 | 3475 | 1375 | 39.6% | 961 | 27.7% | 559 | 16.1% |
| 2014 | 3557 | 1438 | 40.4% | 1008 | 28.3% | 623 | 17.5% |
| 2013 | 2975 | 1123 | 37.7% | 806 | 27.1% | 471 | 15.8% |
| 2012 | 3122 | 1228 | 39.3% | 907 | 29.1% | 489 | 15.7% |
| 2011 | 2911 | 1048 | 36% | 773 | 26.6% | 447 | 15.4% |
| 2010 | 2516 | 746 | 29.7% | 657 | 26.1% | 386 | 15.3% |
| 2009 | 2907 | 686 | 23.6% | 608 | 20.9% | 418 | 14.4% |
| 2008 | 3459 | 891 | 25.8% | 626 | 18.1% | 394 | 11.4% |
| 2007 | 3063 | 1290 | 42.1% | 952 | 31.1% | 674 | 22% |
IDFG doesn't publish harvest by residency.
Source: IDFG harvest statistics, 2025.