Few tags are available on May 20, but there's still a chance to hunt Idaho this year!
Sale date(10:00 a.m. MT) | May 20 |
|---|---|
Date toview available tags(10:00 a.m. MT) | May 18 |
Sale date(10:00 a.m. MT) | June 24 |
Date toview available tags(10:00 a.m. MT) | June 22 |
Sale date(10:00 a.m. MT) | July 22 |
Date toview available tags(10:00 a.m. MT) | July 20 |
Sale date(10:00 a.m. MT) | August 5 |
Date toview available tags(10:00 a.m. MT) | August 3 |
Sale date(10:00 a.m. MT) | September 2 |
Date toview available tags(10:00 a.m. MT) | August 31 |
Sale date(10:00 a.m. MT) | September 16 |
Date toview available tags(10:00 a.m. MT) | September 14 |
Sale date(10:00 a.m. MT) | October 7 |
Date toview available tags(10:00 a.m. MT) | October 5 |
Sale date(10:00 a.m. MT) | October 21 |
Date toview available tags(10:00 a.m. MT) | October 19 |
Sale date(10:00 a.m. MT) | November 4 |
Date toview available tags(10:00 a.m. MT) | November 2 |
Sale date(10:00 a.m. MT) | Date toview available tags(10:00 a.m. MT) |
|---|---|
May 20 | May 18 |
June 24 | June 22 |
July 22 | July 20 |
August 5 | August 3 |
September 2 | August 31 |
September 16 | September 14 |
October 7 | October 5 |
October 21 | October 19 |
November 4 | November 2 |
Tag Type | Boise River - A Tag |
|---|---|
Available | 1 |
Tag Type | Brownlee - A Tag |
Available | 1 |
Tag Type | Middle Fork - B Tag |
Available | 1 |
Tag Type | Panhandle - B Tag |
Available | 1 |
Tag Type | Selway - A Tag |
Available | 1 |
Tag Type | Selway - B Tag |
Available | 2 |
Tag Type | Smoky-Bennett - B Tag |
Available | 1 |
Tag Type | Available |
|---|---|
Boise River - A Tag | 1 |
Brownlee - A Tag | 1 |
Middle Fork - B Tag | 1 |
Panhandle - B Tag | 1 |
Selway - A Tag | 1 |
Selway - B Tag | 2 |
Smoky-Bennett - B Tag | 1 |
Tag Type | Unit 5 |
|---|---|
Available | 2 |
Tag Type | Unit 17 |
Available | 1 |
Tag Type | Available |
|---|---|
Unit 5 | 2 |
Unit 17 | 1 |
Earlier this week Dave Barnett and I were patiently waiting to see what tags would pop up on Idaho's next return tags sale date. And... earlier today that list finally went live! On the May 20 return sale date in Idaho at 10:00 am MT, there are 8 nonresident elk tags, 3 whitetail tags, 21 regular deer tags up for grabs.
For the nonresident regular deer tags, while there are 21 tags available, there are some special things to note about what units you can pick up a tag for.
Any available tags will be listed on Idaho's returned tag page here.
If there are any returned tags, they will be available once a month until September, and then it switches to the second and fourth Thursday of each month at 10:00 a.m. MT. The list of available tags for that period will be made available two days before the sale opens at 10:00 a.m. These tags will be available online and they will sell out quickly!
Below is a list of returned tag available dates:
Future eligible returned tags include:
One tag can be purchased for any of the units listed in the table below.
Individual unit tag counts are a not-to-exceed limit.
Sold-out nonresident capped elk zones
Sold-out nonresident Sawtooth elk zones
Sold-out nonresident elk tags
Sold-out nonresident deer tags
Resident capped elk zones
Nonresident outfitter tags for elk and for mule deer
Nonresident outfitter tags for capped elk zones (available in August)
Resident and nonresident controlled hunts
You'll see that the cap is listed at 21, but at the same time some units are capped at lower numbers. This means that potentially all 21 tags could come from a certain unit or they could be spread out until that 21 tag number is reached.
Note: I have called IDFG 10 times the past two days to get more information on this and still can't get through, but this is the information we can gather.
Not all general season units have tags available.
