Idaho Elk — Unit 44-1X
Idaho Unit 44-1X covers 504,866 acres and lies 32 miles north of Gooding. 44% of it is public land, mostly national forest (26%) and BLM (11%). In 2022, 145 people hunted elk here and took 70 — 48% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Idaho Department of Fish and Game has not offered an elk license in Unit 44-1X 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 283,895 ac · 56%
- National Forest 129,470 ac · 26%
- BLM 56,839 ac · 11%
- State land 32,354 ac · 6%
- Bureau of Reclamation 2,067 ac · 0%
- Other public 239 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 | 145 | 70 | 48% |
| 2021 | 145 | 78 | 54% |
What people carried (2022 harvest)
- Firearm 70 · 100% · 145 hunters, 48% 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)