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Arizona bighorn sheep hunt 6047

44B South (south of I-10 and that portion of Units 45A and 45B north of the El Paso Natural Gas Pipeline - Kofa National Wildlife Refuge). 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 6047 in 2026, of which at most 0 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 622 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 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 fall0461561000.00%
2026 fall1291645000.00%
2026 fall2221638000.00%
2026 fall3181735000.00%
2026 fall4121224000.00%
2026 fall5191433000.00%
2026 fall6171027000.00%
2026 fall7111526000.00%
2026 fall8131023000.00%
2026 fall9151126000.00%
2026 fall10111122000.00%
2026 fall11141933000.00%
2026 fall12121022000.00%
2026 fall1310414000.00%
2026 fall145510000.00%
2026 fall157613107.69%
2026 fall16358000.00%
2026 fall1712618000.00%
2026 fall187411000.00%
2026 fall19336000.00%
2026 fall20549000.00%
2026 fall216612000.00%
2026 fall228614000.00%
2026 fall23325000.00%
2026 fall24246000.00%
2026 fall256713107.69%
2026 fall26639000.00%
2026 fall27437000.00%
2026 fall28426000.00%
2026 fall29167000.00%
2026 fall30257000.00%
2026 fall31336000.00%
2026 fall32336000.00%
2026 fall338311000.00%
2026 fall34033000.00%
2026 fall35235000.00%
2026 fall36011000.00%
2025 fall0332962000.00%
2025 fall1502979000.00%
2025 fall2332659000.00%
2025 fall3213051000.00%
2025 fall4331952000.00%
2025 fall5121224000.00%
2025 fall6221537000.00%
2025 fall7291443000.00%
2025 fall8251843000.00%
2025 fall9181533000.00%
2025 fall10231033000.00%
2025 fall11161228103.57%
2025 fall126713000.00%
2025 fall138917000.00%
2025 fall14141125000.00%
2025 fall158715000.00%
2025 fall164812000.00%
2025 fall1711617000.00%
2025 fall185510000.00%
2025 fall19426000.00%
2025 fall205382025.00%
2025 fall218210000.00%
2025 fall22527000.00%
2025 fall234610000.00%
2025 fall24347000.00%
2025 fall25549000.00%
2025 fall26224000.00%
2025 fall27314000.00%
2025 fall28606000.00%
2025 fall29224000.00%
2025 fall30011000.00%
2025 fall31011000.00%
2025 fall32527000.00%
2025 fall33213000.00%
2025 fall34011000.00%
2024 fall0423880000.00%
2024 fall1473380000.00%
2024 fall2363672000.00%
2024 fall3303161000.00%
2024 fall4121325000.00%
2024 fall5342458000.00%
2024 fall6332255101.82%
2024 fall7222042000.00%
2024 fall8291544000.00%
2024 fall9251338000.00%
2024 fall1029938000.00%
2024 fall11131528103.57%
2024 fall12201232103.13%
2024 fall13161531000.00%
2024 fall1411920000.00%
2024 fall159918000.00%
2024 fall1614721000.00%
2024 fall177916000.00%
2024 fall18101121000.00%
2024 fall1910919000.00%
2024 fall209312000.00%
2024 fall215914000.00%
2024 fall22246000.00%
2024 fall2318523000.00%
2024 fall245712000.00%
2024 fall259413000.00%
2024 fall267613000.00%
2024 fall27426000.00%
2024 fall28516000.00%
2024 fall29246000.00%
2024 fall301451020.00%
2024 fall31628000.00%
2024 fall32325000.00%
2024 fall33101000.00%
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 fallNov 13 - Dec 3, 202644B South (south of I-10 and that portion of Units 45A and 45B north of the El Paso Natural Gas Pipeline - Kofa National Wildlife Refuge)Any ram202
2025 fallNov 14 - Dec 4, 202545C (Kofa National Wildlife Refuge)Any ram303
2024 fallNov 15 - Dec 5, 202445A (south of the El Paso Natural Gas Pipeline - Kofa National Wildlife Refuge)Any ram404

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 6047 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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