Idaho Antelope (Pronghorn) — Unit 39

Idaho Unit 39 covers 1,553,848 acres and lies 28 miles east of Boise. 77% of it is public land, mostly national forest (59%) and BLM (9%). In 2025, 63 people hunted pronghorn here and took 39 — 62% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 40 tags here for 107 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):70 Nonresident share:capped at 10% Applicants:108 Hunter success (2025):62% Public land:77% Size:1,553,848 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every pronghorn license type on offer in Unit 39, 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.

3 licenses on offer · 70 tags · 108 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
  • 4007 Antlerless or Antlered pronghorn, any weapon, Hunt Area 39 40 tags · 107 applicants
    4% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • 4051 Antlerless or Antlered pronghorn, archery, Hunt Area 39 (youth only) 5 tags · 0 applicants
    100% No first-choice applicants 0% as 2nd choice
  • 4052 Doe or Fawn pronghorn, any weapon, Hunt Area 39 (youth only) 25 tags · 1 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.
1 hunt not offered in 2026 is hidden — show discontinued hunts.

What it costs to apply (2026 nonresident fees)

License Up front Gone if you miss If you draw
Per application $203 $203 $545.75

Application window: opens May 1, closes Jun 5, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Other licenses valid in Unit 39

Not in the table above because they had no result in the 2026 draw.

The country

Boise Gooding Weiser McCall Grangeville
Unit 39 within Idaho
31-1 36-1 36A-1 37-1 38-1 40 40-1 43-1X 44-1 44-2 44-3 45-1 45-1X 49 49-1 50 52-1 52A-1 Boise Mountain Home Eagle Ketchum Gooding
Unit 39 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 915,892 ac · 59%
  • Private 352,297 ac · 23%
  • BLM 144,319 ac · 9%
  • State land 110,376 ac · 7%
  • Bureau of Reclamation 24,760 ac · 2%
  • Other public 3,532 ac · 0%
  • Department of Defense 2,670 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
2025 63 39 62%
2024 66 59 89%
2023 64 43 67%
2022 66 56 85%
2021 63 38 60%

What people carried (2025 harvest)

  • Firearm 39 · 100% · 58 hunters, 67% success
  • Archery 0 · 0% · 5 hunters, 0% success

What the agency says about the area

All of Unit 39.

Source: Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, pronghorn 2025 (general + controlled hunt tables)

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

Harvest: Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, pronghorn 2025 (general + controlled hunt tables)

Harvest: Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, pronghorn 2024 (general + controlled hunt tables)

Harvest: Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, pronghorn 2023 (general + controlled hunt tables)

How we compute draw odds · All Idaho pronghorn hunts