Idaho Elk — Unit 39-1X
Idaho Unit 39-1X covers 114,426 acres and lies 20 miles north-west of Mountain Home. 43% of it is public land, mostly BLM (29%) and state land (11%). In 2022, 55 people hunted elk here and took 33 — 60% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Idaho Department of Fish and Game has not offered an elk license in Unit 39-1X in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Idaho elk hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.
The country
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Who owns the ground
- Private 65,107 ac · 57%
- BLM 33,570 ac · 29%
- State land 12,628 ac · 11%
- National Forest 2,336 ac · 2%
- Bureau of Reclamation 783 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 55 | 33 | 60% |
| 2021 | 54 | 10 | 19% |
What people carried (2022 harvest)
- Firearm 33 · 100% · 55 hunters, 60% success
Boundary: Controlled Hunts - All Species, BigGame='Elk' AND Year=2025 (hunt-area boundaries)
Harvest: Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, elk 2022 (general + controlled hunt tables)
Harvest: Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, elk 2021 (general + controlled hunt tables)