Idaho Elk — Unit 45-1X
Idaho Unit 45-1X covers 667,282 acres and lies 25 miles east of Mountain Home. 73% of it is public land, mostly BLM (67%) and state land (6%). In 2022, 26 people hunted elk here and took 7 — 27% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Idaho Department of Fish and Game has not offered an elk license in Unit 45-1X 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 444,678 ac · 67%
- Private 180,710 ac · 27%
- State land 38,043 ac · 6%
- National Forest 1,695 ac · 0%
- Bureau of Reclamation 1,569 ac · 0%
- Other public 585 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 | 26 | 7 | 27% |
| 2021 | 74 | 8 | 11% |
What people carried (2022 harvest)
- Firearm 7 · 100% · 26 hunters, 27% 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)