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Arizona bighorn sheep hunt 6051

45B (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 4 hunt permit-tags on hunt 6051 in 2026, of which at most 0 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 861 applications named it, and 4 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 fall0354176000.00%
2026 fall1343064101.56%
2026 fall2232851000.00%
2026 fall3222648000.00%
2026 fall4191029000.00%
2026 fall5152035000.00%
2026 fall6161127000.00%
2026 fall7192746000.00%
2026 fall8161632000.00%
2026 fall9192342000.00%
2026 fall10171330000.00%
2026 fall11151833000.00%
2026 fall12161430000.00%
2026 fall1310919000.00%
2026 fall14181331000.00%
2026 fall1591423000.00%
2026 fall16161228000.00%
2026 fall1781018000.00%
2026 fall1881119000.00%
2026 fall199918000.00%
2026 fall2061218000.00%
2026 fall217714000.00%
2026 fall222911000.00%
2026 fall238816000.00%
2026 fall24101222104.55%
2026 fall2581119105.26%
2026 fall26369000.00%
2026 fall27257000.00%
2026 fall28448000.00%
2026 fall29145000.00%
2026 fall307512108.33%
2026 fall31246000.00%
2026 fall32415000.00%
2026 fall33112000.00%
2026 fall34314000.00%
2026 fall35314000.00%
2025 fall0302757000.00%
2025 fall1242347000.00%
2025 fall2151631000.00%
2025 fall3243458000.00%
2025 fall4212950000.00%
2025 fall5141630000.00%
2025 fall6181533000.00%
2025 fall7161632000.00%
2025 fall8161834000.00%
2025 fall9132033000.00%
2025 fall10161531000.00%
2025 fall11151328000.00%
2025 fall12111930000.00%
2025 fall13171128103.57%
2025 fall14121224000.00%
2025 fall15101222000.00%
2025 fall168311109.09%
2025 fall17549000.00%
2025 fall188917000.00%
2025 fall198715000.00%
2025 fall206410000.00%
2025 fall216281012.50%
2025 fall225611000.00%
2025 fall234610000.00%
2025 fall24347000.00%
2025 fall255813000.00%
2025 fall26246000.00%
2025 fall27202000.00%
2025 fall28235000.00%
2025 fall29101000.00%
2025 fall30112000.00%
2025 fall31314000.00%
2025 fall32101000.00%
2025 fall332021050.00%
2025 fall34101000.00%
2024 fall0682795000.00%
2024 fall15743100000.00%
2024 fall2534093000.00%
2024 fall3433376000.00%
2024 fall4321547102.13%
2024 fall5432063000.00%
2024 fall6391756000.00%
2024 fall7382058000.00%
2024 fall8422365101.54%
2024 fall9341549000.00%
2024 fall10252045102.22%
2024 fall11221537000.00%
2024 fall12231639000.00%
2024 fall13141327000.00%
2024 fall14141226000.00%
2024 fall15111122000.00%
2024 fall168816000.00%
2024 fall1715621000.00%
2024 fall189312000.00%
2024 fall1941216106.25%
2024 fall206915000.00%
2024 fall21279000.00%
2024 fall228412000.00%
2024 fall232911000.00%
2024 fall244610000.00%
2024 fall25538000.00%
2024 fall268412000.00%
2024 fall27437000.00%
2024 fall28224000.00%
2024 fall29516000.00%
2024 fall30303000.00%
2024 fall31325000.00%
2024 fall32145000.00%
2024 fall33213000.00%
2024 fall3410111100.00%

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, 202645B (south of the El Paso Natural Gas Pipeline - Kofa National Wildlife Refuge)Any ram404
2025 fallDec 1 - Dec 31, 202546B West (Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge) (that portion of 46B west of Mohawk Wash, about centerline of the Tule Desert and including the Pinacate Lava Flow) (Special Restrictions Apply - See Note 93)Any ram404
2024 fallNov 15 - Dec 5, 202445C (Kofa National Wildlife Refuge)Any ram5—5

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 6051 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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