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Arizona bighorn sheep hunt 6052

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 3 hunt permit-tags on hunt 6052 in 2026, of which at most 0 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 920 applications named it, and 3 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 fall0334376000.00%
2026 fall1283866000.00%
2026 fall2253055000.00%
2026 fall3163551000.00%
2026 fall4122032000.00%
2026 fall5152742000.00%
2026 fall6123345000.00%
2026 fall7163349000.00%
2026 fall8141933000.00%
2026 fall9152338000.00%
2026 fall10172744102.27%
2026 fall11111223000.00%
2026 fall12101828000.00%
2026 fall13101323000.00%
2026 fall1451823000.00%
2026 fall15151833103.03%
2026 fall1681725000.00%
2026 fall1761016000.00%
2026 fall1831316000.00%
2026 fall1971522000.00%
2026 fall2051015000.00%
2026 fall2131922104.55%
2026 fall224812000.00%
2026 fall2361117000.00%
2026 fall2441317000.00%
2026 fall2531013000.00%
2026 fall2671017000.00%
2026 fall274711000.00%
2026 fall284812000.00%
2026 fall294913000.00%
2026 fall30145000.00%
2026 fall31347000.00%
2026 fall32167000.00%
2026 fall33123000.00%
2026 fall34145000.00%
2026 fall35033000.00%
2026 fall36011000.00%
2024 fall0325890000.00%
2024 fall1374784000.00%
2024 fall2324476000.00%
2024 fall3354277000.00%
2024 fall4212243000.00%
2024 fall5202848000.00%
2024 fall6243559101.69%
2024 fall7162743102.33%
2024 fall8173249000.00%
2024 fall9133144000.00%
2024 fall10201737000.00%
2024 fall11212445102.22%
2024 fall12131932000.00%
2024 fall1381523104.35%
2024 fall1491019000.00%
2024 fall156814000.00%
2024 fall1610919000.00%
2024 fall1751419000.00%
2024 fall184812000.00%
2024 fall198715000.00%
2024 fall2041014000.00%
2024 fall2151217000.00%
2024 fall226915000.00%
2024 fall234610000.00%
2024 fall248917000.00%
2024 fall25033000.00%
2024 fall26279000.00%
2024 fall27257000.00%
2024 fall28134000.00%
2024 fall29044000.00%
2024 fall30134000.00%
2024 fall31145000.00%
2024 fall32112000.00%
2024 fall33022000.00%
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 fallDec 4 - Dec 31, 202645B (south of the El Paso Natural Gas Pipeline - Kofa National Wildlife Refuge)Any ram303
2024 fallDec 6 - Dec 31, 202445C (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 6052 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
  • 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
  • 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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