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Arizona bighorn sheep hunt 6054

45C (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 6054 in 2026, of which at most 0 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 883 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 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 fall0234164000.00%
2026 fall1283967000.00%
2026 fall2184260000.00%
2026 fall3314071000.00%
2026 fall4202141000.00%
2026 fall5122032000.00%
2026 fall6173653000.00%
2026 fall7173148102.08%
2026 fall8162844000.00%
2026 fall9202343000.00%
2026 fall10202444000.00%
2026 fall1181927000.00%
2026 fall12112233000.00%
2026 fall1392332000.00%
2026 fall14112031000.00%
2026 fall1581725000.00%
2026 fall163811000.00%
2026 fall1741721000.00%
2026 fall184812000.00%
2026 fall194913000.00%
2026 fall2021113000.00%
2026 fall21336000.00%
2026 fall2241014000.00%
2026 fall233361016.67%
2026 fall24819000.00%
2026 fall254913000.00%
2026 fall2641014000.00%
2026 fall27123000.00%
2026 fall283251020.00%
2026 fall29246000.00%
2026 fall30314000.00%
2026 fall31134000.00%
2026 fall32156000.00%
2026 fall33123000.00%
2026 fall34033000.00%
2026 fall35022000.00%
2024 fall0271643000.00%
2024 fall1231942000.00%
2024 fall2142135000.00%
2024 fall3192039000.00%
2024 fall4132134000.00%
2024 fall5152035000.00%
2024 fall6101424000.00%
2024 fall791423000.00%
2024 fall841418000.00%
2024 fall9111425104.00%
2024 fall1091423000.00%
2024 fall11121022000.00%
2024 fall128715000.00%
2024 fall13811192010.53%
2024 fall149615000.00%
2024 fall156713000.00%
2024 fall16279000.00%
2024 fall1751520000.00%
2024 fall18549000.00%
2024 fall19347000.00%
2024 fall20134000.00%
2024 fall21167000.00%
2024 fall22145000.00%
2024 fall233811000.00%
2024 fall2411011000.00%
2024 fall25336000.00%
2024 fall26123000.00%
2024 fall28011000.00%
2024 fall29022000.00%
2024 fall30022000.00%
2024 fall32123000.00%

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, 202645C (Kofa National Wildlife Refuge)Any ram303
2024 fallDec 1 - Dec 31, 202446B 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

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 6054 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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