I, and my 3 hunting buddies, bought our bull elk and mule deer tags back in December for our Idaho trip. Idaho doesn't make you buy points and they don't put you on a draw, they sell their tags first come first serve. You have to be on the ball though, the elk tags in our area sold out in just 2 days (740 tags). They allow nonresidents to start buying tags for the next year starting Dec. 1st. Now the bad news, their bull elk tags are going up from $416 to $652 next year.