Idaho Bighorn Sheep 5027 — Unit 37L

Rams Only Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep, any weapon, Hunt Area 37L

What you may take
Rams Only Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep, any weapon, Hunt Area 37L
Weapon
Rifle
Where
Unit 37L
89% public of 1,048,525 acres
Season (2025)
Oct 14–31, 2025
Tags (2026)
3
for 104 first-choice applicants · nonresidents capped at 10%
Hunter success here (2025)
100%
of everyone who hunted the area

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Odds by point level — 2026 draw

Prior-draw probability for a first-choice nonresident applicant. tags, 104 first-choice applicants. Source: IDFG Hunt Planner drawing odds... · CHunt=5027.

Points Your chance Applicants Drawn
0 <1%

First-choice tags drawn ÷ first-choice applicants, as published. A dash means Idaho Department of Fish and Game did not publish a count for that level. How we compute these.

What it costs (2026 nonresident fees)

Cash to apply
$2,857.50
Out of pocket if unsuccessful
$230.75
Total if drawn
$2,857.50
Refunded if unsuccessful
$2,626.75

At the 2026 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $26,625.71 (enough points to draw) to $26,625.71 (lowest published odds).

Nonresident moose/sheep/goat controlled hunt application fee - nonrefundable, paid with the tag fee · paid at application $45.75 source
Nonresident hunting license (adult; includes 3-day fishing) - required to apply for any controlled hunt · paid at application $185 source
Nonresident bighorn sheep tag - entire amount submitted with the application, refunded if not drawn · paid at application, refundable $2,626.75 source

Optional, not counted above: Access / Depredation fee (charged with the first annual license of the year) $10.

Next application window: opens Apr 1, closes Apr 30, 2027 (expected) · results ~May 11. Last cycle's schedule rolled forward — confirm when the agency publishes.

Point creep & years to draw

No points in this draw — every applicant has the same chance each year, so there is no cut to creep and nothing to build toward.

Seasons (2025)

Split 1: Oct 14–31, 2025 p. number=5027

How this tag has hunted

Across every license type in Unit 37L, Idaho Department of Fish and Game counted 3 hunters and 3 bighorn sheep taken in 2025 — 100% of them killed something. Full Unit 37L profile: maps, public land, five years of harvest →

Hunters holding this license type (2025) — the rest of the area's hunters held something else:

What they hunted Hunters Harvest Success Days per animal
Rocky mountain bighorn 3 3 100%

Idaho's figures are counts from mandatory hunter reports and check stations rather than survey estimates, so they behave differently from the survey states. Source: Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep 2025 (controlled hunt table)

As a lower choice

2nd choice
0%

Drawn at this choice ÷ applicants listing it at this choice, as published. Points do not help a lower choice.

Year by year

The standard draw for nonresidents, one row per year.

Year Tags Applicants Applicants per tag Points needed Published odds Source
2026 3 104 34.7 1% IDFG Hunt Planner drawing odds... · CHunt=5027
2025 3 172 57.3 0.00% IDFG Hunt Planner drawing odds... · CHunt=5027

Earlier years, when this number was a different hunt

Idaho reassigns hunt numbers between years. In these years 5027 stood for another unit or weapon, so they are listed here rather than counted as this hunt's history or in its point-creep trend.

Year · what it was Tags Applicants Applicants per tag Points needed Source
2024 · Unit 36AL 1 34 34.0 IDFG Hunt Planner drawing odds... · CHunt=5027
2023 · Unit 36AL 1 30 30.0 IDFG Hunt Planner drawing odds... · CHunt=5027
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How to read these numbers

Every percentage on this page is a prior-draw probability: the chance an applicant with that many points would have drawn in the draw year shown, computed from the agency's published results. It is not a forecast — quotas, applicant numbers, and point creep change every year. Every figure links to the agency document it came from. Where a state does not publish a number, we show a dash, never a zero. Hunts with fewer than five tags show counts instead of percentages. Fees show the fee year used. Read the methodology for the engine details.

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