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Arizona bighorn sheep hunt 6802

Desert Hunt Area in Unit 22, 45A, 45B, and 45C (Special Restrictions Apply - See Note 175). 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 6802 in 2026, of which at most 0 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 39 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 34.

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 fall0235000.00%
2026 fall1549000.00%
2026 fall2325000.00%
2026 fall3123000.00%
2026 fall4022000.00%
2026 fall6022000.00%
2026 fall8011000.00%
2026 fall9101000.00%
2026 fall12011000.00%
2026 fall13101000.00%
2026 fall1410110100.00%
2026 fall15011000.00%
2026 fall16011000.00%
2026 fall18022000.00%
2026 fall25011000.00%
2026 fall26011000.00%
2026 fall33101000.00%
2026 fall34011000.00%
2025 fall0235000.00%
2025 fall110515000.00%
2025 fall2325000.00%
2025 fall3123000.00%
2025 fall4202000.00%
2025 fall6112000.00%
2025 fall7011000.00%
2025 fall8101000.00%
2025 fall9112000.00%
2025 fall10325000.00%
2025 fall11123000.00%
2025 fall12101000.00%
2025 fall15112000.00%
2025 fall21011000.00%
2025 fall23011000.00%
2025 fall24011000.00%
2025 fall31022000.00%
2025 fall32011000.00%
2025 fall3301110100.00%
2025 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 fallNov 1 - Dec 31, 2026 Bighorn SheepDesert Hunt Area in Unit 22, 45A, 45B, and 45C (Special Restrictions Apply - See Note 175)One-horned ram101
2025 fallNov 1 - Dec 31, 2025 Bighorn Sheep45A, 45B and 45COne-horned ram101

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 6802 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
  • 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

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