Unit 71 (Bannock Zone)
Idaho Hunting Guide — Moose
Unit 71 lies in Bannock, Bingham and Caribou counties and covers about 529 square miles. Named ground inside it runs from 4,568 to 9,255 feet. Idaho Fish and Game's harvest estimates put Shiras moose success here as high as 67%. Federal land covers about 31% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
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Moose Hunting in Unit 71
Unit 71 lies in Bannock, Bingham and Caribou counties and covers about 529 square miles. Named ground inside it runs from 4,568 to 9,255 feet. Idaho Fish and Game's harvest estimates put Shiras moose success here as high as 67%. Federal land covers about 31% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
Where to Find Shiras Moose in Unit 71
Idaho Fish and Game draws an exact line around unit 71 and says nothing about where the Shiras moose stand inside it. Every place named below sits inside the unit line. Which of them holds animals in your season is for you to find out. The unit lies in Bannock, Bingham and Caribou counties. It runs to about 529 square miles.
How Idaho Fish and Game sets up Shiras moose hunting in unit 71
Idaho Fish and Game hunts Shiras moose here only by controlled hunt, and describes its moose hunt area 71 as all of Unit 71.
The lines of the unit: Chesterfield Dam, Portneuf River and Government Dam
Idaho Fish and Game draws unit 71 in Bannock, Bingham and Caribou counties on a line that runs along Interstate 15 and U.S. 30, and past Chesterfield Dam, Portneuf River and Government Dam, written out corner by corner in its unit boundary descriptions. Read it as a frame, not as a hint about animals. Its value is practical — those are the features you will navigate by, and the ridges that separate one day's country from another's.
High ground inside the line: Bonneville Peak, Portneuf Range and Snow Peak
Named high points inside the unit include Bonneville Peak at 9,255 feet, Portneuf Range at 9,255 feet, Snow Peak at 9,119 feet, Haystack Mountain at 9,011 feet and South Putnam Mountain at 8,941 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Moose want willow, water and shade, and they rarely leave the drainage that has all three.
Holding ground: Bennetts Pass, Bear Camp Gulch and Bear Canyon
Below them sit Bennetts Pass at 6,296 feet, Bear Camp Gulch at 6,296 feet, Bear Canyon at 6,240 feet, Blue Lake Gulch at 6,236 feet and Hornet Canyon at 6,178 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Two you can watch from a single knob is worth more than five you have to drive between.
Water: Hornet Spring, Cold Spring and King Creek Spring
The water inside the unit line comes to 51 mapped stream reaches, 2 lakes and 11 stock tanks. Named sources include Hornet Spring, Cold Spring, King Creek Spring, Little Horse Spring, Big Willow Spring and Pine Spring. Nothing in the data says which of them run in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.
Reading the land status
Our ownership read for this unit is approximate — it comes out as National Forest 60%, Private / Other 32% and State Trust 8%, so treat it as a starting point and check a current land-status layer before you plan a route. Named ground inside unit 71 runs from 4,568 feet to 9,255 feet — more than 4,000 feet between the named features alone, so the season you draw decides which part of it you hunt.
Unit 71 terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
The lay of it
- 5,031–7,866 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 6,127 ft ; peaks can run higher.
- 528.5 sq mi inside the boundary.
Who owns the ground
- National Forest — 60%
- State Trust — 8%
- Private / Other — 32%
Roughly 68% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.
Water on the ground
- 11 tanks
- 51 stream segments
- 2 lakes
Counts from mapping data, so this is how many exist, not how many hold water in a dry year. Sitting water only pays where you find fresh tracks.
Named features inside the unit
Glass from: Bonneville Peak (9,255 ft), Haystack Mountain (9,011 ft), Pocatello Range (6,790 ft), Moonlight Mountain (6,634 ft)
Holding ground: Buckskin Basin (7,633 ft), Inkom Pass (7,622 ft), Inman Pass (6,638 ft), Hornet Spring, Cold Spring
Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.
How to Hunt Shiras Moose in Unit 71
Moose Success Rates
Idaho Fish and Game's 2025 harvest estimates put Shiras moose success in unit 71 at 67% — 4 animals taken by 6 hunters. On a sample that small the percentage moves several points with one animal, so read the hunter count beside it.
These are the agency's own printed figures for this unit, not a modelled estimate and not a state average. They describe one season, so check Idaho Fish and Game's current harvest estimates before you read a trend into them.
Moose Draw Odds
| Season | Tags | Applicants | Draw % | Pts (n/p) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Controlled — 1st Drawing either sex (resident) | 5 | 51 | 10.0% | — |
| Controlled — 1st Drawing either sex (nonresident) | 1 | 7 | 14.0% | — |
Data from 2026 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number. This agency publishes no point thresholds, so the Pts column stays blank and these are pool odds, not what a point total draws.
Open in Draw Odds EngineIdaho Fish and Game's 2026 first drawing for Shiras moose in unit 71, with residents and nonresidents kept apart because they draw from different tag pools:
- Hunt 3081 — residents 51 applicants for 5 tags, 10% drawn; nonresidents 7 applicants for 1 tag, 14% drawn
Idaho draws at random with no point system, so these are what that year happened to look like, not a requirement to build toward. Idaho Fish and Game reuses hunt numbers for different areas between years, so the figures are matched on the area each hunt had in 2026. Checked against Idaho Fish and Game's hunt planner draw results on 2026-06-09.
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Every fact on this page is tied to a primary source below. Last fact-checked 2026-10-24.
- Idaho Big Game 2026 Seasons & Rules — Idaho Department of Fish and Game · supports: Game management unit boundary description, Counties the unit lies in, Controlled hunt numbers, tags and season dates · accessed 2026-10-24
- Moose, Bighorn Sheep & Mountain Goat 2025 & 2026 Seasons & Rules — Idaho Department of Fish and Game · supports: Controlled hunt application periods and eligibility rules · accessed 2026-10-24
- IDFG Hunt Planner — 2025 general hunt harvest statistics — Idaho Department of Fish and Game · supports: Harvest, hunters and percent success for Shiras moose in unit 71 · accessed 2026-10-19
- IDFG Hunt Planner — controlled hunt drawing odds — Idaho Department of Fish and Game · supports: Applicants, tags and percent drawn by hunt, year and residency · accessed 2026-06-09
- IDFG GameManagementUnits and ControlledHunts_All feature services — game management units and every species' controlled-hunt areas — Idaho Department of Fish and Game · supports: Mapped extent of the unit or hunt area, Which named ground falls inside its line · accessed 2026-10-24