It’s hit and miss depending on the animal and unit. All units have road hunters. I’ve hunted units with basically no one past the easy areas and I’ve been deep bouncing people. Deer seems worse than elk for hunter numbers.When I was there two seasons ago, I have never hunted an area with so many lazy hunters - R and NR. It is some tough, rough and thick country and it wasn't hard to get off the road a little bit and get into some solid elk hunting. Only saw one deer though, so perhaps they were all just deer hunters and those live by the roads
2026 Idaho Nonresident Deer & Elk
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rmyoung1
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The problem is no one knows last year’s number. The tags sold out, but how many people logged on with multiple devices? How many bots were in play? Now they’ll have a true baseline demand number
2rocky
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I do think that it will result in higher applications on Controlled hunts because of Sunk cost theory.
Khunter
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Pretty sure the number in queue is simply a count of the total times someone uniquely (same browser and ip) accessed the page and certainly not reflecting live demand to access and apply. Number has been going up up and up steadily as it if is a counter and not an actual place in line. Maybe that was known/obvious to some...
Not worried that over 100k folks have accessed the website since the draw opened, that is far different that 'number of applicants'. At least I sure hope so.
In for deer and elk. I am a sucker. And yes 'sunk cost' did factor in to the deer app.
Irrelevant
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I think that's a given
