Idaho Elk — Unit 46-1X
Idaho Unit 46-1X covers 4,422,132 acres and lies 12 miles south of Kimberly. 68% of it is public land, mostly BLM (48%) and national forest (12%). In 2022, 119 people hunted elk here and took 42 — 35% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Idaho Department of Fish and Game has not offered an elk license in Unit 46-1X 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 2,109,666 ac · 48%
- Private 1,412,928 ac · 32%
- National Forest 525,817 ac · 12%
- State land 143,877 ac · 3%
- Department of Defense 115,102 ac · 3%
- Other public 95,730 ac · 2%
- National Park Service 12,416 ac · 0%
- Bureau of Reclamation 6,339 ac · 0%
Source: BLM Idaho Surface Management Agency (land ownership / SMA)
Nearby areas
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 | 119 | 42 | 35% |
| 2021 | 120 | 47 | 39% |
What people carried (2022 harvest)
- Firearm 42 · 100% · 119 hunters, 35% 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)