Idaho Moose — Unit 76-3

Idaho Unit 76-3 covers 149,509 acres and lies 25 miles north-east of Soda Springs and 38 miles north of Montpelier. 79% of it is public land, mostly national forest (75%) and BLM (3%). In 2025, 5 people hunted moose here and took 4 — 80% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 5 tags here for 29 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):5 Nonresident share:capped at 10% Applicants:29 Hunter success (2025):80% Public land:79% Size:149,509 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every moose license type on offer in Unit 76-3, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

No points in this draw — every nonresident applicant has the same chance.

1 license on offer · 5 tags · 29 applicants in the 2026 draw

Chances are from the 2026 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level
  • 3089 Antlered moose, any weapon, Hunt Area 76-3 5 tags · 29 applicants
    0% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
What these columns mean
Your odds
the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2026 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
The badge
plain language for that number. Likely draw 75% or better · Real chance 40%+ · Long shot 15%+ · Point builder below that, so you are applying mainly to bank a point · Undersubscribed means fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
As 2nd choice
Idaho lets you name more than one hunt on the application. Miss on your first choice and you go into the pot for whatever tags are left, alongside everyone else's second choices. Points never help a lower choice, so this number is the same whatever you have banked — it is usually worth naming a hunt that goes undersubscribed.
Points needed
the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2026 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
Tags / applicants
tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them. Under five tags we print counts instead of a percentage, because one applicant either way swings it.

What it costs to apply (2026 nonresident fees)

License Up front Gone if you miss If you draw
Per application $2,857.50 $230.75 $2,857.50

Application window: opens Apr 1, closes Apr 30, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

The country

Soda Springs Victor Bellevue Kimberly Salmon
Unit 76-3 within Idaho
66A 72 76-1 Soda Springs
Unit 76-3 and its neighbours
Zoomable USGS topo, aerial imagery and shaded relief, with the neighboring areas drawn on.

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.

Who owns the ground

  • National Forest 112,082 ac · 75%
  • Private 30,722 ac · 21%
  • BLM 4,999 ac · 3%
  • State land 1,598 ac · 1%

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
2025 5 4 80%
2024 5 3 60%
2023 5 1 20%
2022 5 2 40%
2021 5 5 100%
2020 5 5 100%
2019 5 2 40%
2018 7 6 86%
2017 7 5 71%
2016 10 4 40%
2015 10 5 50%
2014 15 9 60%
2013 15 8 53%
2012 15 11 73%
2011 15 10 67%
2010 25 13 52%
2009 25 16 64%
2008 25 9 36%
2007 25 12 48%
2006 25 14 56%
2005 25 15 60%

What people carried (2025 harvest)

  • Firearm 4 · 100% · 5 hunters, 80% success

What the agency says about the area

That portion of Unit 76 north and east of the following boundary: Beginning at the Idaho-Wyoming state line, then west along the Stump Creek-Smoky Canyon-Timber Creek Road to the Diamond Creek Road, then north along the Diamond Creek-Lanes Creek Road to State Highway 34 at Wayan then east to the Idaho-Wyoming border.

Source: Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, moose 2025 (controlled hunt table)

Boundary: Controlled Hunts - All Species, BigGame='Moose' AND Year=2025 (hunt-area boundaries)

Harvest: Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, moose 2025 (controlled hunt table)

Harvest: Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, moose 2024 (controlled hunt table)

Harvest: Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, moose 2023 (controlled hunt table)

How we compute draw odds · All Idaho moose hunts