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Arizona · Bighorn Sheep · Hunt 6057

Arizona bighorn sheep hunt 6057

46B 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). 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 6057 in 2026, of which at most 0 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 807 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 fall0262753000.00%
2026 fall1433275000.00%
2026 fall2323769000.00%
2026 fall3322254000.00%
2026 fall4161834000.00%
2026 fall5132336000.00%
2026 fall6221941000.00%
2026 fall7202545000.00%
2026 fall8211637102.70%
2026 fall9161935102.86%
2026 fall10191635000.00%
2026 fall11181634000.00%
2026 fall12221234000.00%
2026 fall13101424000.00%
2026 fall14111425000.00%
2026 fall1512820000.00%
2026 fall1671623000.00%
2026 fall176814000.00%
2026 fall18459000.00%
2026 fall196612000.00%
2026 fall205611000.00%
2026 fall21729000.00%
2026 fall225611109.09%
2026 fall23404000.00%
2026 fall247714000.00%
2026 fall25279000.00%
2026 fall26549000.00%
2026 fall27336000.00%
2026 fall28235000.00%
2026 fall29358000.00%
2026 fall30101000.00%
2026 fall313141025.00%
2026 fall32224000.00%
2026 fall34112000.00%
2026 fall35011000.00%

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, 202646B 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

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
  • 2026-27-Arizona-Hunting-Regulations.pdf — the regulations booklet this cycle's species, unit and permit count were read from

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