Idaho Antelope (Pronghorn) 4027 — Unit 28-1

Bucks Only pronghorn, archery, Hunt Area 28-1

Unit 28-1 within Idaho

What you may take: Bucks Only pronghorn, archery, Hunt Area 28-1 (antlered)
Weapon: Archery; Archery gear only — no rifle season on this license.
Where: Unit 28-1; 94% public of 1,886,543 acres
Season (2026): Aug 15 – Sep 15, 2026
Tags (2026): 310; for 25 first-choice applicants · nonresidents capped at 10%
Hunter success here (2025): 21%; of everyone who hunted the area

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Odds by point level — 2026 draw

Undersubscribed: 25 of 25 tags claimed by first-choice nonresident applicants in 2026. Everyone who applied drew and the rest went to the leftover draw — the 100% reflects low demand, not a great tag. A code like this can flip the year demand catches up.

Prior-draw probability for a first-choice nonresident applicant. tags, 25 first-choice applicants. Source: IDFG Hunt Planner drawing odds... · CHunt=4027.

Points	Your chance	Applicants	Drawn
0	100%	—	—

Fewer applicants than tags. A dash means Idaho Department of Fish and Game did not publish a count for that level. How we compute these.

What it costs (2026 nonresident fees)

Cash to apply

$203

Out of pocket if unsuccessful

$203

Total if drawn

$627.50

Refunded if unsuccessful

At the 2026 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $627.50 (enough points to draw) .

Nonresident controlled hunt application fee (per person, per species) - nonrefundable · paid at application $18 source

Nonresident archery permit (needed to hunt an archery-only controlled hunt; bowhunter education proof required) · paid if drawn $81.75 source

Nonresident hunting license (adult; includes 3-day fishing) - required to apply for any controlled hunt · paid at application $185 source

Nonresident pronghorn tag - 'Tag fee applies ONLY if drawn' · paid if drawn $342.75 source

Optional, not counted above: Access / Depredation fee (charged with the first annual license of the year) $10.

Next application window: opens May 1, closes Jun 5, 2027 (expected) · results ~June 17. Last cycle's schedule rolled forward — confirm when the agency publishes.

Point creep & years to draw

No points in this draw — every applicant has the same chance each year, so there is no cut to creep and nothing to build toward.

Seasons (2026)

Split 1: Aug 15 – Sep 15, 2026 p. number=4027

How this tag has hunted

Across every license type in Unit 28-1, Idaho Department of Fish and Game counted 216 hunters and 45 pronghorn taken in 2025 — 21% of them killed something. Full Unit 28-1 profile: maps, public land, five years of harvest →

Hunters holding this license type (2025) — the rest of the area's hunters held something else:

What they hunted	Hunters	Harvest	Success	Days per animal
Type 4027	216	45	21%	—

Idaho's figures are counts from mandatory hunter reports and check stations rather than survey estimates, so they behave differently from the survey states. Source: Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, pronghorn 2025 (general + controlled hunt tables) Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, pronghorn 2024 (general + controlled hunt tables)

Year by year

The standard draw for nonresidents, one row per year.

Year	Tags	Applicants	Applicants per tag	Points needed	Published odds	Source
2026	310	25	0.1	—	100%	IDFG Hunt Planner drawing odds... · CHunt=4027
2025	314	33	0.1	—	100%	IDFG Hunt Planner drawing odds... · CHunt=4027

Earlier years, when this number was a different hunt

Idaho reassigns hunt numbers between years. In these years 4027 stood for another unit or weapon, so they are listed here rather than counted as this hunt's history or in its point-creep trend.

Year · what it was	Tags	Applicants	Applicants per tag	Points needed	Source
2023 · Unit 63-2, rifle	10	0	0.0	—	IDFG Hunt Planner drawing odds... · CHunt=4027
2022 · Unit 63-3, rifle	25	4	0.2	—	IDFG Hunt Planner drawing odds... · CHunt=4027

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How to read these numbers

Every percentage on this page is a prior-draw probability: the chance an applicant with that many points would have drawn in the draw year shown, computed from the agency's published results. It is not a forecast — quotas, applicant numbers, and point creep change every year. Every figure links to the agency document it came from. Where a state does not publish a number, we show a dash, never a zero. Hunts with fewer than five tags show counts instead of percentages. Fees show the fee year used. Read the methodology for the engine details.

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