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Arizona bighorn sheep hunt 6029

37B. 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 1 hunt permit-tag on hunt 6029 in 2026, of which at most 0 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 508 applications named it, and 1 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 fall0181533000.00%
2026 fall1311546000.00%
2026 fall2261238000.00%
2026 fall3151530000.00%
2026 fall411920000.00%
2026 fall56713000.00%
2026 fall6171936000.00%
2026 fall719726000.00%
2026 fall814721104.76%
2026 fall9151328000.00%
2026 fall10111122000.00%
2026 fall1117724000.00%
2026 fall1212517000.00%
2026 fall136814000.00%
2026 fall1413922000.00%
2026 fall158311000.00%
2026 fall166713000.00%
2026 fall17347000.00%
2026 fall18639000.00%
2026 fall19448000.00%
2026 fall20347000.00%
2026 fall21415000.00%
2026 fall22639000.00%
2026 fall238210000.00%
2026 fall24459000.00%
2026 fall25235000.00%
2026 fall26314000.00%
2026 fall27101000.00%
2026 fall28303000.00%
2026 fall29123000.00%
2026 fall30101000.00%
2026 fall31202000.00%
2026 fall32101000.00%
2026 fall33112000.00%
2026 fall34224000.00%
2026 fall35224000.00%
2025 fall0373774000.00%
2025 fall1394483000.00%
2025 fall2343973000.00%
2025 fall3332962101.61%
2025 fall4292655000.00%
2025 fall5101929000.00%
2025 fall6171734000.00%
2025 fall7201939000.00%
2025 fall8212142102.38%
2025 fall9172239000.00%
2025 fall10161733103.03%
2025 fall11222345000.00%
2025 fall12171532000.00%
2025 fall13121628000.00%
2025 fall14121426000.00%
2025 fall15151227000.00%
2025 fall166814000.00%
2025 fall177411000.00%
2025 fall1812618000.00%
2025 fall19415000.00%
2025 fall20121022000.00%
2025 fall21101020000.00%
2025 fall224610000.00%
2025 fall23628000.00%
2025 fall248614000.00%
2025 fall25549000.00%
2025 fall26112000.00%
2025 fall27639000.00%
2025 fall28167000.00%
2025 fall29112000.00%
2025 fall30549000.00%
2025 fall31538000.00%
2025 fall32123000.00%
2025 fall34123000.00%
2025 fall35022000.00%
2024 fall0422769000.00%
2024 fall1384684000.00%
2024 fall2442468000.00%
2024 fall3333265101.54%
2024 fall4111425000.00%
2024 fall5112132000.00%
2024 fall6211839000.00%
2024 fall723932000.00%
2024 fall8191332000.00%
2024 fall9191837000.00%
2024 fall1021930000.00%
2024 fall11151227000.00%
2024 fall12161127000.00%
2024 fall13161026000.00%
2024 fall14161329000.00%
2024 fall157411000.00%
2024 fall166915000.00%
2024 fall1713619000.00%
2024 fall18347000.00%
2024 fall1911617000.00%
2024 fall20101020000.00%
2024 fall21415000.00%
2024 fall227714107.14%
2024 fall235712000.00%
2024 fall245611000.00%
2024 fall25303000.00%
2024 fall26808000.00%
2024 fall273710000.00%
2024 fall28134000.00%
2024 fall29448000.00%
2024 fall30044000.00%
2024 fall31235000.00%
2024 fall33022000.00%
2024 fall341341125.00%

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.

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, 202637BAny ram101
2025 fallDec 1 - Dec 31, 202539 WestAny ram303
2024 fallDec 1 - Dec 31, 202439 (west of Old AZ Hwy 80)Any ram303

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 6029 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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