Big Game by StateThe public record of western draws

Arizona · Bison · Hunt 7003

Arizona bison hunt 7003

House Rock Wildlife Area only (House Rock Herd) in Unit 12A East. What each bonus point level actually did in Arizona's spring 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 7003 in 2026, of which at most 0 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 561 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 44.

Arizona's own two reports disagree about this hunt. Summing the permits the Bonus Point Report gives at each level does not reproduce the total its own Draw Report states for the same hunt in 2025 spring. Both published figures are shown — the level rows below come from the Bonus Point Report, the authorized and issued totals above from the Draw Report. We have not resolved the difference in either direction, because the department has not.

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 spring0413475000.00%
2026 spring1472774000.00%
2026 spring2192645000.00%
2026 spring3231639000.00%
2026 spring4131528000.00%
2026 spring5141226000.00%
2026 spring620525000.00%
2026 spring7131124000.00%
2026 spring811819000.00%
2026 spring914620000.00%
2026 spring1010818000.00%
2026 spring1117724000.00%
2026 spring12617000.00%
2026 spring1310616000.00%
2026 spring146410000.00%
2026 spring157512000.00%
2026 spring16448000.00%
2026 spring177613000.00%
2026 spring18123000.00%
2026 spring195510000.00%
2026 spring206612000.00%
2026 spring21145000.00%
2026 spring22246000.00%
2026 spring23314000.00%
2026 spring24516000.00%
2026 spring25404000.00%
2026 spring26213000.00%
2026 spring27123000.00%
2026 spring28112000.00%
2026 spring29101000.00%
2026 spring31303000.00%
2026 spring32202000.00%
2026 spring33112000.00%
2026 spring34101000.00%
2026 spring35101000.00%
2026 spring36202000.00%
2026 spring37224000.00%
2026 spring38123000.00%
2026 spring4410111100.00%
2025 spring0413475000.00%
2025 spring1412465000.00%
2025 spring2362460000.00%
2025 spring3202242000.00%
2025 spring4221739000.00%
2025 spring520929000.00%
2025 spring6161026000.00%
2025 spring781119000.00%
2025 spring814721000.00%
2025 spring910717000.00%
2025 spring1015722000.00%
2025 spring1113215000.00%
2025 spring128614000.00%
2025 spring1313518000.00%
2025 spring1410313000.00%
2025 spring1511617000.00%
2025 spring16639000.00%
2025 spring1710717000.00%
2025 spring18639000.00%
2025 spring197411000.00%
2025 spring20549000.00%
2025 spring21145000.00%
2025 spring22314000.00%
2025 spring23617000.00%
2025 spring24303000.00%
2025 spring25325000.00%
2025 spring26112000.00%
2025 spring27213000.00%
2025 spring28033000.00%
2025 spring29011000.00%
2025 spring30202000.00%
2025 spring31101000.00%
2025 spring32213000.00%
2025 spring33101000.00%
2025 spring34224000.00%
2025 spring35112000.00%
2025 spring36123000.00%
2025 spring37134000.00%
2025 spring38011000.00%
2025 spring39112000.00%
2025 spring40011000.00%
2025 spring42112000.00%
2025 spring45011000.00%

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.

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 springJan 30 - Feb 3, 2026House Rock Wildlife Area only (House Rock Herd) in Unit 12A EastDesignated bull bison101
2025 springFeb 21 - Feb 25, 2025House Rock Wildlife Area only (House Rock Herd) in Unit 12A EastDesignated bull bison101

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 Spring Bonus Point Report — 2026-Spring-Bonus-Point-Report.pdf, fetched 2026-09-04
  • 2025 Spring Bonus Point Report — 2025-Spring-Bonus-Point-Report.pdf, fetched 2026-09-04
  • 2026-Spring-Regulations_250908.pdf — the regulations booklet this cycle's species, unit and permit count were read from
  • 2025-Spring-Regulations_2408303.pdf — the regulations booklet this cycle's species, unit and permit count were read from

Nearby hunt numbers