Unit 7
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: 12 of 78 total bulls harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All | Spike | Bull | 6+ pt | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 600 | 78 | 13% | 19 | 3.2% | 59 | 9.8% | 12 | 2% |
| 2024 | 590 | 73 | 12.4% | 25 | 4.2% | 48 | 8.1% | 28 | 4.7% |
| 2023 | 613 | 59 | 9.6% | 5 | 0.8% | 54 | 8.8% | 27 | 4.4% |
| 2022 | 550 | 41 | 7.5% | 7 | 1.3% | 34 | 6.2% | 7 | 1.3% |
| 2021 | 619 | 54 | 8.7% | 7 | 1.1% | 47 | 7.6% | 27 | 4.4% |
| 2020 | 582 | 24 | 4.1% | 0 | 0% | 24 | 4.1% | 11 | 1.9% |
| 2019 | 598 | 66 | 11% | 17 | 2.8% | 49 | 8.2% | 21 | 3.5% |
| 2018 | 668 | 62 | 9.3% | 0 | 0% | 62 | 9.3% | 29 | 4.3% |
| 2017 | 735 | 93 | 12.7% | 20 | 2.7% | 73 | 9.9% | 19 | 2.6% |
| 2016 | 594 | 100 | 16.8% | 15 | 2.5% | 85 | 14.3% | 32 | 5.4% |
| 2015 | 784 | 113 | 14.4% | 38 | 4.8% | 75 | 9.6% | 38 | 4.8% |
| 2014 | 671 | 88 | 13.1% | 0 | 0% | 88 | 13.1% | 44 | 6.6% |
| 2013 | 642 | 55 | 8.6% | 7 | 1.1% | 47 | 7.3% | 29 | 4.5% |
| 2012 | 594 | 55 | 9.3% | 1 | 0.2% | 54 | 9.1% | 21 | 3.5% |
| 2011 | 842 | 49 | 5.8% | 7 | 0.8% | 41 | 4.9% | 17 | 2% |
| 2010 | 1072 | 116 | 10.8% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2009 | 981 | 117 | 11.9% | 7 | 0.7% | 85 | 8.7% | 48 | 4.9% |
| 2008 | 1479 | 156 | 10.5% | 19 | 1.3% | 111 | 7.5% | 33 | 2.2% |
| 2007 | 1680 | 256 | 15.2% | 25 | 1.5% | 172 | 10.2% | 56 | 3.3% |
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 9 [unlabeled].
Antlerless: Oct 10 - Nov 9 (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 7 Regular Deer, nonresident hunt code RD7.
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 7 nonresident limit: 57 tags, plus 2 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): 51 of 51 antlered deer harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All deer | Antlered | 4+ pt | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 337 | 56 | 16.6% | 51 | 15.1% | 51 | 15.1% |
| 2024 | 226 | 30 | 13.3% | 30 | 13.3% | 16 | 7.1% |
| 2023 | 267 | 18 | 6.7% | 16 | 6% | 16 | 6% |
| 2022 | 272 | 31 | 11.4% | 26 | 9.6% | 24 | 8.8% |
| 2021 | 273 | 36 | 13.2% | 27 | 9.9% | 6 | 2.2% |
| 2020 | 426 | 40 | 9.4% | 19 | 4.5% | 17 | 4% |
| 2019 | 257 | 19 | 7.4% | 19 | 7.4% | 15 | 5.8% |
| 2018 | 352 | 36 | 10.2% | 17 | 4.8% | 8 | 2.3% |
| 2017 | 363 | 45 | 12.4% | 25 | 6.9% | 8 | 2.2% |
| 2016 | 444 | 61 | 13.7% | 53 | 11.9% | 21 | 4.7% |
| 2015 | 397 | 100 | 25.2% | 91 | 22.9% | 46 | 11.6% |
| 2014 | 368 | 68 | 18.5% | 53 | 14.4% | 46 | 12.5% |
| 2013 | 328 | 58 | 17.7% | 50 | 15.2% | 23 | 7% |
| 2012 | 399 | 38 | 9.5% | 28 | 7% | 15 | 3.8% |
| 2011 | 463 | 26 | 5.6% | 18 | 3.9% | 6 | 1.3% |
| 2010 | 461 | 41 | 8.9% | 40 | 8.7% | 22 | 4.8% |
| 2009 | 603 | 57 | 9.5% | 53 | 8.8% | 40 | 6.6% |
| 2008 | 869 | 97 | 11.2% | 89 | 10.2% | 42 | 4.8% |
| 2007 | 940 | 135 | 14.4% | 117 | 12.4% | 82 | 8.7% |
IDFG doesn't publish harvest by residency.
Source: IDFG harvest statistics, 2025.