Idaho elk: the NR draw

[The10%]

LOL, that topic was brought up during the nonresident tag committee meetings. It has been waived for the first year. Next year look for a 50.00 application fee to be included.

Oh I'm sure.
And a cut to the NR tag quota to further increase demand, plus an increase in price to offset $ loss

 

[Turkeygetpwnd38]

I disagree, you’re a. 155.00 for a license to start plus all of the other fees, its not much different and having a pile of NV points and no hope to draw any time soon.

NM is the carrying costs of putting up 10K plus a year. I dropped WY because i refuse to loan the government money for that long.

You don’t have to purchase a license to apply in NV is what I’m saying. You can apply for deer for $15ish.

 

[Glory]

How can you find out the super popular, low odds of getting a tag units? Not sure I want to donate my $200 on a really low odds unit.

 

[IdahoBeav]

How can you find out the super popular, low odds of getting a tag units? Not sure I want to donate my $200 on a really low odds unit.

This is the inaugural season for this draw, so there is no data yet.

You will have 2 draw opportunities for general tags and then another draw opportunity for controlled OIL or deer-elk-pronghorn.

The license gives you three opportunities for tags, quite a bargain for the price.

 

[ProRoad]

I'm totally lost on this Draw. I'm looking at hunting a specific area (Salmon/Lemhi/Beaverhead) because family lives there. I have been studying the PDFs all day. If I put in choices for an Elk zone are and then a deer unit, can I be drawn for both, or only one? and when do I know how to choose Bull or Cow? so much info not available.

 

[IdahoBeav]

I wonder how many people would be applying in western states if there weren't guys like Randy Newberg making videos showing the process step by step and providing data on hunts.

I imagine he'll soon have a video for this new draw.

 

[Andrew12gauge]

I'm totally lost on this Draw. I'm looking at hunting a specific area (Salmon/Lemhi/Beaverhead) because family lives there. I have been studying the PDFs all day. If I put in choices for an Elk zone are and then a deer unit, can I be drawn for both, or only one? and when do I know how to choose Bull or Cow? so much info not available.

Yes you can draw both, as for choosing bull or cow you can apply for an A or B tag and the seasons should be really close to 2025 which you can find in the current regulations on the website. Seasons are set on a 2 year cycle and just got done last March so unless there is an emergency change they should stay the same


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[WRO]

You don’t have to purchase a license to apply in NV is what I’m saying. You can apply for deer for $15ish.

But you don’t get any points, which are useful I think


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[Rock’N Tacos]

All of these elk sheds are from the diamond creek zone. It is literally running with 300 6 ptssilly to not apply as option 1

Why would you advertise that on the internet?

 

[BRTreedogs]

Why would you advertise that on the internet?

Iykyk

 

[ProRoad]

Why would you advertise that on the internet?

because Scrappy said what we were all thinking; "looking for any honey hole info!" LMAO

 

[MuleyFever]

I wonder how many people would be applying in western states if there weren't guys like Randy Newberg making videos showing the process step by step and providing data on hunts.

I imagine he'll soon have a video for this new draw.

Why wait for Randy when you can get all the info you need right here on this forum if you just ask?

 

[Ross]

May you all be successful in the draw dreams

 

[MuleyFever]

May you all be successful in the draw dreams

Blended whisky? We aren't heathens.

 

[Ross]

A wiz man is always thinking, the Mrs likes chocolate

Elk sheds are always north of 44.9062° N, 116.1171° W

 

[oldhornhunter]

Yep, there’s no elk in Idaho

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This is how Idaho gets you guys to Bite so HARD !! Idaho F&G also claims that almost every elk & deer unit in Idaho is at or above Quota's but according to their published harvest reports these #s do NOT even come close to adding up.. But by all means take the word of a F&G person that is NEVER in the field ... They love your $$$

 

[HunterGatherer]

This is how Idaho gets you guys to Bite so HARD !! Idaho F&G also claims that almost every elk & deer unit in Idaho is at or above Quota's but according to their published harvest reports these #s do NOT even come close to adding up.. But by all means take the word of a F&G person that is NEVER in the field ... They love your $$$

There’s a recurring theme with Hunter observations about elk and deer numbers. It usually goes like this : “ I’ve been hunting this specific area for decades and the animals have disappeared “. Then they blame it on wolves, NR hunters, F&G mismanagement, etc, etc

What they fail to consider is that animals change their patterns and behaviors due to a myriad of factors including changes in habitat ( fires, invasive species, grazing practices), trends in hunter pressure to name a few.

I kill an elk almost every year in Idaho, some years 2, but I’ve had to change zones many times over the last 20 years. I’ve hunted zones that were “over objective” and the hunting was fantastic . Elk are thriving in Idaho in all but a handful of zones. If we weren’t killing off so many cows to appease private landowners the numbers would be even higher. I acknowledge that my subjective experience is not the whole story but it aligns with what IDFG is saying about elk numbers.