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Arizona bighorn sheep hunt 6013

16A (excluding that portion of 16A south and east of the Big Sandy River and Mohave County Park Lands). What each bonus point level actually did in Arizona's fall draw — how many applications sat at that level, and how many of them drew a tag. Every figure comes from an Arizona Game and Fish report linked at the foot of this page.

What the 2026 draw did

Arizona authorized 2 hunt permit-tags on hunt 6013 in 2026, of which at most 0 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 580 applications named it, and 2 drew it through the first two passes. The hunt filled.

Arizona grants no guarantee for holding points. Before each pass the department generates one random number for your application plus one more for every bonus point on it, and uses the lowest. Only the bonus pass — 20 per cent of the permits above, and closed to anyone holding no points — goes out in point order. So the table below is a record of what happened at each level, not a ladder you climb.

The highest bonus point level with an application on this hunt in 2026 was 33.

By bonus point level

Cycle
Residency
The draw rate is permits drawn divided by applications at that level — a share of the people there, not a share of a quota. Arizona publishes no permits-available figure per point level. "Bonus pass" is the subset of the drawn column issued in the 20 per cent first pass; it is already included, and adding the two together counts those permits twice. Applications are first and second choice only.
CyclePoints1st choice2nd choiceApplicationsDrawnof which bonus passDraw rate
2026 fall0192140000.00%
2026 fall1264773000.00%
2026 fall2122840000.00%
2026 fall3152742000.00%
2026 fall4131225000.00%
2026 fall5111627000.00%
2026 fall6183856000.00%
2026 fall792231000.00%
2026 fall8101323000.00%
2026 fall9111526000.00%
2026 fall10131023000.00%
2026 fall1171421000.00%
2026 fall1231417000.00%
2026 fall1361016000.00%
2026 fall1451015000.00%
2026 fall1551015000.00%
2026 fall167815000.00%
2026 fall171451020.00%
2026 fall183471014.29%
2026 fall192810000.00%
2026 fall204913000.00%
2026 fall21549000.00%
2026 fall22314000.00%
2026 fall23123000.00%
2026 fall24224000.00%
2026 fall25325000.00%
2026 fall26213000.00%
2026 fall27033000.00%
2026 fall29101000.00%
2026 fall30213000.00%
2026 fall31123000.00%
2026 fall32011000.00%
2026 fall33101000.00%
2025 fall0283563000.00%
2025 fall1201838000.00%
2025 fall2121729000.00%
2025 fall3121729000.00%
2025 fall4201838000.00%
2025 fall59312000.00%
2025 fall68412000.00%
2025 fall761420000.00%
2025 fall881119000.00%
2025 fall9111021000.00%
2025 fall1061319105.26%
2025 fall11437000.00%
2025 fall1211415000.00%
2025 fall135611000.00%
2025 fall145510000.00%
2025 fall157411000.00%
2025 fall16044000.00%
2025 fall17011000.00%
2025 fall18279000.00%
2025 fall19224000.00%
2025 fall20404000.00%
2025 fall21044000.00%
2025 fall22213000.00%
2025 fall23112000.00%
2025 fall24235000.00%
2025 fall25134000.00%
2025 fall261341025.00%
2025 fall27011000.00%
2025 fall28112000.00%
2025 fall29202000.00%
2025 fall30101000.00%
2025 fall32011000.00%
2024 fall011562177000.00%
2024 fall110770177000.00%
2024 fall211439153000.00%
2024 fall38058138000.00%
2024 fall4672996101.04%
2024 fall5542377000.00%
2024 fall6712899000.00%
2024 fall76439103000.00%
2024 fall86934103000.00%
2024 fall9512980000.00%
2024 fall10502272000.00%
2024 fall11402161000.00%
2024 fall12402666000.00%
2024 fall13541670000.00%
2024 fall14321547000.00%
2024 fall15242044000.00%
2024 fall16182543000.00%
2024 fall17211536000.00%
2024 fall18161430000.00%
2024 fall1927936000.00%
2024 fall20151025000.00%
2024 fall2120727000.00%
2024 fall22281341000.00%
2024 fall23241337102.70%
2024 fall2424731103.23%
2024 fall2514418000.00%
2024 fall269110000.00%
2024 fall27729000.00%
2024 fall28415000.00%
2024 fall29516000.00%
2024 fall30415000.00%
2024 fall31246000.00%
2024 fall324151020.00%
2024 fall33336000.00%
2024 fall34011000.00%

A dash in the rate column means nobody applied at that level in that pool, which is absent rather than nought — the draw answered nothing there. This hunt issued no permits at all in the bonus pass in any published cycle, which is ordinary: the pass covers 20 per cent of permits and only applications holding at least one point.

The hunt, cycle by cycle

Season, unit and permit count as the regulations booklet for that cycle prints them. The nonresident figure is a cap, not a share — it is the most that may go to nonresidents, and it does not add to a resident number.
CycleSeasonOpen areasLegal wildlifeAuthorizedNR capIssued
2026 fallDec 1 - Dec 31, 202616A (excluding that portion of 16A south and east of the Big Sandy River and Mohave County Park Lands)Any ram202
2025 fallDec 1 - Dec 31, 202516A (excluding that portion of 16A south and east of the Big Sandy River and Mohave County Park Lands)Any ram202
2024 fallDec 1 - Dec 31, 202415DAny ram404

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 6013 across the cycles above, so comparing its rates across years is comparing hunts that may not cover the same country. The department publishes nothing that settles how much of the change is real, so this page shows each cycle's own description and claims nothing beyond it.

How to read these numbers

The applications column is not the whole field. Arizona draws in three passes and the bonus point report covers the first two — the bonus pass and the first-and-second-choice pass. Hunters who named this hunt as a third, fourth or fifth choice are drawn in a pass the department publishes no point-level breakdown for, so they are not counted above and no total here should be read as everyone who wanted the tag.

A bonus point level is a property of the application, not of a person.Two to four hunters may apply on one application, and Arizona averages their points and rounds to the nearest whole number. So a row at level 6 can hold a group whose members individually hold anything from 4 to 8.

Comparing a rate here with one from another state will mislead you.Utah's and Idaho's rates are permits against a published quota. Arizona's are permits against the applicants at one point level, because that is the only denominator the department gives.

Every source read for this page

  • 2026 F Bonus Point Report — 2026-F-Bonus-Point-Report.pdf, fetched 2026-09-04
  • 2025 Fall Bonus Point Report — 2025-Fall-Bonus-Point-Report.pdf, fetched 2026-09-04
  • 2024 Fall Draw Bonus Point Report — 2024-Fall-Bonus-Point-Report.pdf, fetched 2026-09-04
  • 2026-27-Arizona-Hunting-Regulations.pdf — the regulations booklet this cycle's species, unit and permit count were read from
  • 2025-26-Arizona-Hunting-Regulations_250506.pdf — the regulations booklet this cycle's species, unit and permit count were read from
  • 2024-25-Arizona-Hunting-Regulations_241209.pdf — the regulations booklet this cycle's species, unit and permit count were read from

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