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Arizona bighorn sheep hunt 6017

Superstition Wilderness Hunt Area in Unit 24B. 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 6017 in 2026, of which at most 0 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 959 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 fall06342105000.00%
2026 fall17243115000.00%
2026 fall26833101000.00%
2026 fall3362561000.00%
2026 fall4292049000.00%
2026 fall5361349000.00%
2026 fall6372360101.67%
2026 fall7391150000.00%
2026 fall8351954000.00%
2026 fall9291342000.00%
2026 fall10151328000.00%
2026 fall11211233000.00%
2026 fall1217623000.00%
2026 fall13171128000.00%
2026 fall1423528000.00%
2026 fall1591019000.00%
2026 fall1614418000.00%
2026 fall17112000.00%
2026 fall1812416000.00%
2026 fall196410000.00%
2026 fall20819000.00%
2026 fall216511000.00%
2026 fall22538000.00%
2026 fall234041025.00%
2026 fall24437000.00%
2026 fall25347000.00%
2026 fall26112000.00%
2026 fall27516000.00%
2026 fall28022000.00%
2026 fall30213000.00%
2026 fall31202000.00%
2026 fall32112000.00%
2026 fall33101000.00%
2026 fall34213000.00%
2026 fall35101000.00%
2025 fall09043133000.00%
2025 fall17459133100.75%
2025 fall27034104000.00%
2025 fall3593594000.00%
2025 fall4612081000.00%
2025 fall5271845000.00%
2025 fall624933000.00%
2025 fall7331851000.00%
2025 fall8381250000.00%
2025 fall9321850000.00%
2025 fall10411556000.00%
2025 fall11231336000.00%
2025 fall12251136000.00%
2025 fall1334741000.00%
2025 fall1420626000.00%
2025 fall15221032000.00%
2025 fall16729000.00%
2025 fall179514000.00%
2025 fall187310000.00%
2025 fall1910515000.00%
2025 fall2011314000.00%
2025 fall216511000.00%
2025 fall224371014.29%
2025 fall236612000.00%
2025 fall24538000.00%
2025 fall25347000.00%
2025 fall26718000.00%
2025 fall27336000.00%
2025 fall28314000.00%
2025 fall29022000.00%
2025 fall30527000.00%
2025 fall31134000.00%
2025 fall33404000.00%
2025 fall34202000.00%
2025 fall35011000.00%
2024 fall010861169000.00%
2024 fall110635141000.00%
2024 fall28334117000.00%
2024 fall3692392000.00%
2024 fall4362359000.00%
2024 fall5411051000.00%
2024 fall6381755000.00%
2024 fall7611879000.00%
2024 fall8452368101.47%
2024 fall9401959000.00%
2024 fall10321244000.00%
2024 fall11321446000.00%
2024 fall12321042000.00%
2024 fall1328937000.00%
2024 fall14271138000.00%
2024 fall1518422000.00%
2024 fall1623427000.00%
2024 fall1718422000.00%
2024 fall1812618000.00%
2024 fall1914418000.00%
2024 fall2025530103.33%
2024 fall2112517105.88%
2024 fall22171128000.00%
2024 fall2312719000.00%
2024 fall2413215000.00%
2024 fall256410000.00%
2024 fall26549000.00%
2024 fall27448000.00%
2024 fall28336000.00%
2024 fall299413000.00%
2024 fall306511000.00%
2024 fall31606000.00%
2024 fall32516000.00%
2024 fall33224000.00%
2024 fall34101000.00%

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, 2026Superstition Wilderness Hunt Area in Unit 24BAny ram202
2025 fallaccess to much of Dec 1 - Dec 31, 2025within these hunts. Superstition Wilderness Hunt Area in Unit 24BAny ram202
2024 fallaccess to much of the Dec 1 - Dec 31, 2024within these hunts. Superstition Wilderness Hunt Area in Unit 24BAny ram———

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 6017 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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