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Arizona bighorn sheep hunt 6055

46A (Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge) (Special Restrictions Apply - See Note 93). 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 1 hunt permit-tag on hunt 6055 in 2026, of which at most 0 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 172 applications named it, and 1 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 33.

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 fall07411000.00%
2026 fall1459000.00%
2026 fall27310000.00%
2026 fall36511000.00%
2026 fall46410000.00%
2026 fall5134000.00%
2026 fall6538000.00%
2026 fall7213000.00%
2026 fall89211000.00%
2026 fall9549000.00%
2026 fall10358000.00%
2026 fall11448000.00%
2026 fall12639000.00%
2026 fall13448000.00%
2026 fall144711109.09%
2026 fall15213000.00%
2026 fall16426000.00%
2026 fall17224000.00%
2026 fall18224000.00%
2026 fall19415000.00%
2026 fall20101000.00%
2026 fall21134000.00%
2026 fall22123000.00%
2026 fall23123000.00%
2026 fall24101000.00%
2026 fall25011000.00%
2026 fall26101000.00%
2026 fall27101000.00%
2026 fall30011000.00%
2026 fall31112000.00%
2026 fall32101000.00%
2026 fall33101000.00%
2024 fall0324375000.00%
2024 fall1274976000.00%
2024 fall2232548000.00%
2024 fall3323163000.00%
2024 fall4282452000.00%
2024 fall5252752000.00%
2024 fall6172239000.00%
2024 fall7233356000.00%
2024 fall8183048000.00%
2024 fall9242549102.04%
2024 fall10162036102.78%
2024 fall11162642000.00%
2024 fall12201737000.00%
2024 fall13192443000.00%
2024 fall1491625000.00%
2024 fall15171229000.00%
2024 fall167613000.00%
2024 fall1781119000.00%
2024 fall187916000.00%
2024 fall198715000.00%
2024 fall207613000.00%
2024 fall216713000.00%
2024 fall2211819105.26%
2024 fall2310818000.00%
2024 fall2471017105.88%
2024 fall25156000.00%
2024 fall26448000.00%
2024 fall27369000.00%
2024 fall28213000.00%
2024 fall29112000.00%
2024 fall30224000.00%
2024 fall31112000.00%
2024 fall32426000.00%
2024 fall33112000.00%

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 1 - Dec 31, 202646A (Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge) (Special Restrictions Apply - See Note 93)Any ram101
2024 fallDec 1 - Dec 31, 202446B 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

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 6055 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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