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Arizona bighorn sheep hunt 6050

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 6050 in 2026, of which at most 0 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 1,682 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 fall05872130000.00%
2026 fall16177138000.00%
2026 fall26580145000.00%
2026 fall35154105000.00%
2026 fall4323466101.52%
2026 fall5383371000.00%
2026 fall65843101000.00%
2026 fall7484593000.00%
2026 fall8494190000.00%
2026 fall9394079000.00%
2026 fall10373471000.00%
2026 fall11223052000.00%
2026 fall12322456000.00%
2026 fall13233255000.00%
2026 fall14241943000.00%
2026 fall15231538000.00%
2026 fall16131932103.13%
2026 fall17151429000.00%
2026 fall189615000.00%
2026 fall1913922000.00%
2026 fall20141125000.00%
2026 fall21161531000.00%
2026 fall2215924000.00%
2026 fall2381523000.00%
2026 fall2491625000.00%
2026 fall25111021000.00%
2026 fall2612921104.76%
2026 fall2712921000.00%
2026 fall287714000.00%
2026 fall29369000.00%
2026 fall30134000.00%
2026 fall31358000.00%
2026 fall32527000.00%
2026 fall33156000.00%
2026 fall34347000.00%
2026 fall351341025.00%
2026 fall3610111100.00%
2025 fall0143145000.00%
2025 fall1131629000.00%
2025 fall292433000.00%
2025 fall3122133000.00%
2025 fall4121729000.00%
2025 fall516622000.00%
2025 fall672229000.00%
2025 fall751419000.00%
2025 fall881523000.00%
2025 fall991423000.00%
2025 fall1071421000.00%
2025 fall116713000.00%
2025 fall1291322000.00%
2025 fall136814000.00%
2025 fall1441014000.00%
2025 fall156814000.00%
2025 fall16448000.00%
2025 fall173710000.00%
2025 fall183691011.11%
2025 fall19358000.00%
2025 fall20358000.00%
2025 fall21044000.00%
2025 fall221452040.00%
2025 fall23268000.00%
2025 fall24134000.00%
2025 fall252810000.00%
2025 fall26145000.00%
2025 fall27213000.00%
2025 fall28033000.00%
2025 fall30134000.00%
2025 fall31022000.00%
2025 fall32022000.00%
2025 fall33011000.00%
2024 fall0113546000.00%
2024 fall1142236000.00%
2024 fall2181735000.00%
2024 fall3172138000.00%
2024 fall4111728103.57%
2024 fall571320000.00%
2024 fall691524000.00%
2024 fall761521000.00%
2024 fall8141428000.00%
2024 fall981220000.00%
2024 fall1091322000.00%
2024 fall11101020000.00%
2024 fall122911000.00%
2024 fall13141024000.00%
2024 fall1410919000.00%
2024 fall157916000.00%
2024 fall16448000.00%
2024 fall17178000.00%
2024 fall187411000.00%
2024 fall194913000.00%
2024 fall201910000.00%
2024 fall21358000.00%
2024 fall227815000.00%
2024 fall234812000.00%
2024 fall245510000.00%
2024 fall25426000.00%
2024 fall26246000.00%
2024 fall274371014.29%
2024 fall284711000.00%
2024 fall29224000.00%
2024 fall30314000.00%
2024 fall31112000.00%
2024 fall32112000.00%
2024 fall33202000.00%
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.

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 4 - Dec 31, 202645A (south of the El Paso Natural Gas Pipeline - Kofa National Wildlife Refuge)Any ram505
2025 fallDec 1 - Dec 31, 202546B East (Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge) (that portion of 46B east of Mohawk Wash, about centerline of the Tule Desert and including the Pinacate Lava Flow) (Special Restrictions Apply - See Note 93)Any ram303
2024 fallDec 6 - Dec 31, 202445B (south of the El Paso Natural Gas Pipeline - Kofa National Wildlife Refuge)Any ram202

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 6050 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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