Unit 72 (Bannock Zone)
Idaho Hunting Guide — Moose
Unit 72 lies in Bingham and Caribou counties and covers about 419 square miles. Named ground inside it runs from 5,422 to 7,279 feet. Idaho Fish and Game's harvest estimates put Shiras moose success here as high as 100%. Federal land covers about 9% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
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Moose Hunting in Unit 72
Unit 72 lies in Bingham and Caribou counties and covers about 419 square miles. Named ground inside it runs from 5,422 to 7,279 feet. Idaho Fish and Game's harvest estimates put Shiras moose success here as high as 100%. Federal land covers about 9% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
Where to Find Shiras Moose in Unit 72
Idaho Fish and Game's material on unit 72 stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its Shiras moose live. So the ground below is the unit's own and the read on where to start is ours, labelled as such. The unit lies in Bingham and Caribou counties. It runs to about 419 square miles.
How Idaho Fish and Game sets up Shiras moose hunting in unit 72
Idaho Fish and Game hunts Shiras moose here only by controlled hunt, and describes its moose hunt area 72 as all of Unit 72.
The lines of the unit: Blackfoot River, Government Dam and Portneuf River
Idaho Fish and Game draws unit 72 in Bingham and Caribou counties on a line that runs along State Highway 34 and U.S. 30, and past Blackfoot River, Government Dam, Portneuf River and Chesterfield Dam, written out corner by corner in its unit boundary descriptions. It tells you the shape of the unit and nothing about its inhabitants. Those features are what you will check against the map all week, and the divides among them are the ones that matter.
High ground inside the line: Chesterfield Range, Windy Ridge and China Hat
Named high points inside the unit include Chesterfield Range at 7,279 feet, Windy Ridge at 7,279 feet, China Hat at 7,165 feet, Reservoir Mountain at 7,128 feet and Sawmill Ridge at 7,080 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Moose need standing water and willow, so on dry country they are tied to the few drainages that hold both.
Holding ground: Pine Grove, Tenmile Pass and Dry Hollow
Below them sit Pine Grove at 6,238 feet, Tenmile Pass at 6,111 feet, Dry Hollow at 6,005 feet, Fivemile Meadows at 5,982 feet and Ninety Percent Canyon at 5,788 feet. Those are the basins, parks and bottoms this unit has, and they are what you glass into from above. Work out which of them you can see from one position before you pick a camp.
Water: Ninety Percent Spring, Corduroy Spring and Chandler Spring
The water inside the unit line comes to 22 mapped stream reaches, 7 lakes, 6 stock tanks and 2 springs. Named sources include Ninety Percent Spring, Corduroy Spring, Chandler Spring, Indian Spring, Hooper Spring and Mammoth 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 Private / Other 100%, so treat it as a starting point and check a current land-status layer before you plan a route. Named ground inside unit 72 runs from 5,422 feet to 7,279 feet. Those are the heights of the features GNIS names, which bound the range from inside rather than measure it.
Unit 72 terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
The lay of it
- 5,489–7,005 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 6,222 ft ; peaks can run higher.
- 418.7 sq mi inside the boundary.
Who owns the ground
- Private / Other — 100%
Roughly 0% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.
Water on the ground
- 6 tanks
- 2 springs
- 22 stream segments
- 7 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: China Hat (7,165 ft), Reservoir Mountain (7,128 ft), Corral Creek Ridge (6,998 ft), Long Ridge (6,972 ft)
Holding ground: Devils Gate (6,791 ft), The Dip (6,387 ft), Ninety Percent Spring, Corduroy Spring, Chandler 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 72
Moose Success Rates
Idaho Fish and Game's 2025 harvest estimates put Shiras moose success in unit 72 at 100% — 5 animals taken by 5 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) | 4 | 185 | 2.0% | — |
| Controlled — 1st Drawing either sex (nonresident) | 1 | 17 | 6.0% | — |
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 72, with residents and nonresidents kept apart because they draw from different tag pools:
- Hunt 3082 — residents 185 applicants for 4 tags, 2% drawn; nonresidents 17 applicants for 1 tag, 6% 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 72 · 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