Idaho Elk — Unit 74-1X
Idaho Unit 74-1X covers 692,059 acres and lies 16 miles north of Preston and 27 miles south-west of Soda Springs. 29% of it is public land, mostly national forest (13%) and BLM (8%). In 2022, 30 people hunted elk here and took 19 — 63% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Idaho Department of Fish and Game has not offered an elk license in Unit 74-1X 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 491,291 ac · 71%
- National Forest 86,727 ac · 13%
- BLM 56,025 ac · 8%
- State land 55,985 ac · 8%
- Bureau of Reclamation 1,943 ac · 0%
- Other public 15 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 | 30 | 19 | 63% |
| 2021 | 49 | 32 | 65% |
What people carried (2022 harvest)
- Firearm 19 · 100% · 30 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)