Idaho Elk — Unit 40-1X
Idaho Unit 40-1X covers 3,128,555 acres and lies 53 miles south-west of Mountain Home and 63 miles south of Nampa. 82% of it is public land, mostly BLM (74%) and state land (7%). In 2022, 130 people hunted elk here and took 82 — 63% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Idaho Department of Fish and Game has not offered an elk license in Unit 40-1X 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
- BLM 2,323,555 ac · 74%
- Private 476,258 ac · 15%
- State land 228,606 ac · 7%
- Tribal 92,238 ac · 3%
- Bureau of Reclamation 6,560 ac · 0%
- Other public 1,173 ac · 0%
- Department of Defense 12 ac · 0%
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 | 130 | 82 | 63% |
| 2021 | 107 | 67 | 63% |
What people carried (2022 harvest)
- Firearm 82 · 100% · 130 hunters, 63% 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)