Idaho Deer — 68AX

Idaho 68AX covers 286,773 acres and lies 10 miles north-west of Chubbuck. 10% of it is public land, mostly Bureau of Reclamation (4%) and other public land (3%). A further 40% is tribal land rather than public land. In 2025, 43 people hunted deer here and took 12 — 28% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 50 tags here for 1 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):50 Nonresident share:capped at 10% Applicants:1 Hunter success (2025):28% Public land:10% Size:286,773 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every deer license type on offer in 68AX, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

No points in this draw — every nonresident applicant has the same chance.

1 license on offer · 50 tags · 1 applicants in the 2026 draw

Chances are from the 2026 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level
  • 1147 Antlerless white-tailed deer, archery, Hunt Area 68AX (extra tag) 50 tags · 1 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
What these columns mean
Your odds
the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2026 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
The badge
plain language for that number. Likely draw 75% or better · Real chance 40%+ · Long shot 15%+ · Point builder below that, so you are applying mainly to bank a point · Undersubscribed means fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
As 2nd choice
Idaho lets you name more than one hunt on the application. Miss on your first choice and you go into the pot for whatever tags are left, alongside everyone else's second choices. Points never help a lower choice, so this number is the same whatever you have banked — it is usually worth naming a hunt that goes undersubscribed.
Points needed
the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2026 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
Tags / applicants
tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them. Under five tags we print counts instead of a percentage, because one applicant either way swings it.

What it costs to apply (2026 nonresident fees)

License Up front Gone if you miss If you draw
Per application $203 $203 $554.75

Application window: opens May 1, closes Jun 5, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

The country

Blackfoot Soda Springs Rexburg Kimberly Mountain Home
68AX within Idaho
50-1 50-1X 52A 53-1 60A-1X 63A 63A-1X 63AX 66 66A 66A-1X 67 68 68A 69 70 70-1X 72-1 73A 74 Blackfoot Chubbuck Shelley American Falls Iona
68AX and its neighbours
Zoomable USGS topo, aerial imagery and shaded relief, with the neighboring areas drawn on.

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.

Who owns the ground

  • Private 145,510 ac · 51%
  • Tribal 113,480 ac · 40%
  • Bureau of Reclamation 11,248 ac · 4%
  • Other public 8,592 ac · 3%
  • BLM 5,867 ac · 2%
  • State land 2,073 ac · 1%

Source: BLM Idaho Surface Management Agency (land ownership / SMA)

How the hunting has gone

What Idaho Department of Fish and Game publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Idaho Department of Fish and Game publishes these per hunt rather than per unit; the rows below add its own figures together, since a hunter holds one tag for the species in a season. Idaho's figures are counts from mandatory hunter reports and check stations rather than survey estimates, so they behave differently from the survey states.

Season Hunters Harvest Success
2025 43 12 28%
2024 37 8 22%
2023 38 6 16%
2022 38 9 24%
2021 35 12 34%

What people carried (2025 harvest)

  • Archery 12 · 100% · 43 hunters, 28% success

What the agency says about the area

All of Unit 68A

Source: Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, deer 2025 (general + controlled hunt tables)

Boundary: Controlled Hunts - All Species, BigGame='Deer' AND Year=2025 (hunt-area boundaries)

Harvest: Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, deer 2025 (general + controlled hunt tables)

Harvest: Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, deer 2024 (general + controlled hunt tables)

Harvest: Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, deer 2023 (general + controlled hunt tables)

How we compute draw odds · All Idaho deer hunts