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Arizona bighorn sheep hunt 6045

44A West. 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 6045 in 2026, of which at most 0 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 255 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 36.

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 fall081119000.00%
2026 fall1171128000.00%
2026 fall212719000.00%
2026 fall3111223000.00%
2026 fall47815000.00%
2026 fall5347000.00%
2026 fall66511000.00%
2026 fall7549000.00%
2026 fall8639000.00%
2026 fall9303000.00%
2026 fall10279000.00%
2026 fall11066000.00%
2026 fall12369000.00%
2026 fall134711000.00%
2026 fall148614000.00%
2026 fall15055000.00%
2026 fall16224000.00%
2026 fall17516000.00%
2026 fall18235000.00%
2026 fall19303000.00%
2026 fall20123000.00%
2026 fall21213000.00%
2026 fall22011000.00%
2026 fall23112000.00%
2026 fall24224000.00%
2026 fall25347000.00%
2026 fall26224000.00%
2026 fall27123000.00%
2026 fall28112000.00%
2026 fall29213000.00%
2026 fall30101000.00%
2026 fall32101000.00%
2026 fall34112000.00%
2026 fall35022000.00%
2026 fall361121150.00%
2025 fall0292756000.00%
2025 fall1403272000.00%
2025 fall2242852000.00%
2025 fall3221840000.00%
2025 fall4141327000.00%
2025 fall5141125000.00%
2025 fall6151732000.00%
2025 fall7191433103.03%
2025 fall8161834000.00%
2025 fall9161228000.00%
2025 fall10171532000.00%
2025 fall1171522104.55%
2025 fall1215722209.09%
2025 fall1371219000.00%
2025 fall1481523000.00%
2025 fall1515621000.00%
2025 fall168412000.00%
2025 fall174711000.00%
2025 fall1812820000.00%
2025 fall19459000.00%
2025 fall203811000.00%
2025 fall2181119000.00%
2025 fall227411000.00%
2025 fall237815000.00%
2025 fall244711000.00%
2025 fall25527000.00%
2025 fall26224000.00%
2025 fall27437000.00%
2025 fall28639000.00%
2025 fall29448000.00%
2025 fall30022000.00%
2025 fall31347000.00%
2025 fall32448000.00%
2025 fall33033000.00%
2025 fall34101000.00%
2025 fall35101000.00%
2024 fall010152153000.00%
2024 fall110957166000.00%
2024 fall210052152000.00%
2024 fall38436120000.00%
2024 fall4383068000.00%
2024 fall5571774000.00%
2024 fall68032112000.00%
2024 fall77742119000.00%
2024 fall87330103000.00%
2024 fall9602888000.00%
2024 fall10603494000.00%
2024 fall11432467000.00%
2024 fall12472976000.00%
2024 fall13462369000.00%
2024 fall14501666000.00%
2024 fall15312051000.00%
2024 fall16431861000.00%
2024 fall17291645000.00%
2024 fall18261238000.00%
2024 fall19341953000.00%
2024 fall20311344000.00%
2024 fall21261238000.00%
2024 fall22361349000.00%
2024 fall23282250000.00%
2024 fall2440949000.00%
2024 fall25221537000.00%
2024 fall2613619000.00%
2024 fall2720626000.00%
2024 fall28201131000.00%
2024 fall2921728000.00%
2024 fall3012618000.00%
2024 fall31171330000.00%
2024 fall32151025000.00%
2024 fall3311718000.00%
2024 fall34143174423.53%

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, 202644A WestAny ram101
2025 fallNov 14 - Dec 4, 202545B (south of the El Paso Natural Gas Pipeline - Kofa National Wildlife Refuge)Any ram404
2024 fallDec 1 - Dec 31, 202444B (north of I-10)Any ram404

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 6045 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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