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Arizona bighorn sheep hunt 6016

Desert Hunt Area in Unit 22 (Special Restrictions Apply - See Note 175). 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 6016 in 2026, of which at most 0 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 954 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 35.

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 fall05570125000.00%
2026 fall15255107000.00%
2026 fall2324375000.00%
2026 fall3283967000.00%
2026 fall4231841000.00%
2026 fall5181331000.00%
2026 fall6302959000.00%
2026 fall7172845000.00%
2026 fall8152641000.00%
2026 fall9191130000.00%
2026 fall10232447000.00%
2026 fall11161127000.00%
2026 fall12151631103.23%
2026 fall1310818105.56%
2026 fall14151934000.00%
2026 fall1514923000.00%
2026 fall16369000.00%
2026 fall175813000.00%
2026 fall189615000.00%
2026 fall1915722000.00%
2026 fall2011314000.00%
2026 fall21437000.00%
2026 fall22279000.00%
2026 fall234610000.00%
2026 fall24718000.00%
2026 fall25628000.00%
2026 fall262810000.00%
2026 fall27213000.00%
2026 fall28314000.00%
2026 fall29123000.00%
2026 fall30202000.00%
2026 fall31516000.00%
2026 fall32033000.00%
2026 fall33123000.00%
2026 fall34112000.00%
2026 fall35112000.00%
2025 fall092107199000.00%
2025 fall19494188000.00%
2025 fall28778165000.00%
2025 fall36261123000.00%
2025 fall46269131000.00%
2025 fall5413172000.00%
2025 fall6443074000.00%
2025 fall7503080000.00%
2025 fall8343064000.00%
2025 fall9363975000.00%
2025 fall10262248000.00%
2025 fall11282654000.00%
2025 fall12212243000.00%
2025 fall13221941000.00%
2025 fall14201434000.00%
2025 fall15121628000.00%
2025 fall16121628000.00%
2025 fall17111728000.00%
2025 fall1818725000.00%
2025 fall1913720000.00%
2025 fall2013922000.00%
2025 fall2181119000.00%
2025 fall2211516000.00%
2025 fall2312719000.00%
2025 fall24131225000.00%
2025 fall2511718000.00%
2025 fall267815000.00%
2025 fall275510000.00%
2025 fall284711000.00%
2025 fall296612000.00%
2025 fall30549000.00%
2025 fall31336000.00%
2025 fall32639000.00%
2025 fall33246000.00%
2025 fall34246000.00%
2025 fall351342250.00%
2024 fall011971190000.00%
2024 fall19863161000.00%
2024 fall29254146000.00%
2024 fall37328101000.00%
2024 fall4542478000.00%
2024 fall5481563000.00%
2024 fall6512475000.00%
2024 fall7472269000.00%
2024 fall8391756000.00%
2024 fall9322759000.00%
2024 fall1024731000.00%
2024 fall11351247000.00%
2024 fall12292352000.00%
2024 fall1327734000.00%
2024 fall1423629000.00%
2024 fall1514620000.00%
2024 fall1616925000.00%
2024 fall1710717000.00%
2024 fall1814519000.00%
2024 fall197512000.00%
2024 fall206410000.00%
2024 fall2110616000.00%
2024 fall229312000.00%
2024 fall23171027000.00%
2024 fall247411000.00%
2024 fall256713000.00%
2024 fall26718000.00%
2024 fall27516000.00%
2024 fall28527000.00%
2024 fall29134000.00%
2024 fall306511000.00%
2024 fall31448000.00%
2024 fall32707000.00%
2024 fall33617000.00%
2024 fall3474112218.18%

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.

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 4 - Dec 31, 2026Desert Hunt Area in Unit 22 (Special Restrictions Apply - See Note 175)Any ram202
2025 fallDec 5 - Dec 31, 2025Desert Hunt Area in Unit 22Any ram202
2024 fallDec 1 - Dec 31, 2024Desert Hunt Area in Unit 22Any ram202

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 6016 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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