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Arizona bighorn sheep hunt 6049

45A (south 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 5 hunt permit-tags on hunt 6049 in 2026, of which at most 0 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 1,481 applications named it, and 5 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 fall07747124000.00%
2026 fall17367140100.71%
2026 fall27134105000.00%
2026 fall3544599000.00%
2026 fall4262551000.00%
2026 fall5372158000.00%
2026 fall6433174000.00%
2026 fall7593291000.00%
2026 fall8342862000.00%
2026 fall9442771000.00%
2026 fall10331548000.00%
2026 fall11371956101.79%
2026 fall12242044000.00%
2026 fall13212344000.00%
2026 fall14232346000.00%
2026 fall15251237000.00%
2026 fall16211536000.00%
2026 fall17101323000.00%
2026 fall18121527000.00%
2026 fall19101222000.00%
2026 fall20121426000.00%
2026 fall219817000.00%
2026 fall2214923000.00%
2026 fall23211031000.00%
2026 fall2481220000.00%
2026 fall2581018105.56%
2026 fall267916106.25%
2026 fall277613000.00%
2026 fall286410000.00%
2026 fall29718000.00%
2026 fall30336000.00%
2026 fall31628000.00%
2026 fall32516000.00%
2026 fall338311000.00%
2026 fall34224000.00%
2026 fall35235000.00%
2026 fall3610111100.00%
2025 fall010414000.00%
2025 fall15510000.00%
2025 fall28513000.00%
2025 fall35611000.00%
2025 fall4527000.00%
2025 fall5213000.00%
2025 fall6235000.00%
2025 fall78513000.00%
2025 fall87512000.00%
2025 fall9549000.00%
2025 fall106391011.11%
2025 fall11639000.00%
2025 fall12819000.00%
2025 fall13347000.00%
2025 fall14314000.00%
2025 fall15123000.00%
2025 fall16101000.00%
2025 fall17336000.00%
2025 fall18437000.00%
2025 fall19101000.00%
2025 fall20224000.00%
2025 fall21213000.00%
2025 fall22202000.00%
2025 fall23033000.00%
2025 fall24202000.00%
2025 fall25314000.00%
2025 fall26022000.00%
2025 fall28112000.00%
2025 fall29011000.00%
2025 fall30202000.00%
2025 fall31011000.00%
2025 fall32101000.00%
2025 fall33101000.00%
2024 fall0292554000.00%
2024 fall1223052000.00%
2024 fall2261945000.00%
2024 fall3132538000.00%
2024 fall451318000.00%
2024 fall561521000.00%
2024 fall6111021000.00%
2024 fall7111122000.00%
2024 fall8181331000.00%
2024 fall981220000.00%
2024 fall10101121000.00%
2024 fall1141014000.00%
2024 fall128715106.67%
2024 fall135712000.00%
2024 fall1451015000.00%
2024 fall155510000.00%
2024 fall164610000.00%
2024 fall17718000.00%
2024 fall186713000.00%
2024 fall19426000.00%
2024 fall20111122000.00%
2024 fall216410000.00%
2024 fall22358000.00%
2024 fall2341216000.00%
2024 fall24459000.00%
2024 fall25044000.00%
2024 fall26235000.00%
2024 fall27336000.00%
2024 fall284371014.29%
2024 fall29022000.00%
2024 fall30235000.00%
2024 fall31134000.00%
2024 fall32112000.00%
2024 fall33022000.00%
2024 fall341121150.00%

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 fallNov 13 - Dec 3, 202645A (south of the El Paso Natural Gas Pipeline - Kofa National Wildlife Refuge)Any ram505
2025 fallDec 1 - Dec 31, 202546A (Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge) (Special Restrictions Apply - See Note 93)Any ram101
2024 fallNov 15 - Dec 5, 202445B (south of the El Paso Natural Gas Pipeline - Kofa National Wildlife Refuge)Any ram303

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 6049 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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