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Arizona bison hunt 7008

12A (excluding the closure area within House Rock Wildlife Area, see note), 12B, and 13A (Kaibab Plateau Herd). 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 20 hunt permit-tags on hunt 7008 in 2026, of which at most 2 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 2,639 applications named it, and 20 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 46.

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 spring018170251000.00%
2026 spring1258136394000.00%
2026 spring211966185000.00%
2026 spring313280212000.00%
2026 spring49140131000.00%
2026 spring59458152000.00%
2026 spring67642118000.00%
2026 spring7682694303.19%
2026 spring86946115201.74%
2026 spring97139110000.00%
2026 spring106740107000.00%
2026 spring11513384000.00%
2026 spring12603191000.00%
2026 spring13472774202.70%
2026 spring14472774000.00%
2026 spring15402363000.00%
2026 spring16281644102.27%
2026 spring17341347000.00%
2026 spring18231639205.13%
2026 spring19211031000.00%
2026 spring2026632000.00%
2026 spring2119625000.00%
2026 spring2210616000.00%
2026 spring2314014107.14%
2026 spring24191202010.00%
2026 spring256511000.00%
2026 spring266612108.33%
2026 spring275491011.11%
2026 spring2813417000.00%
2026 spring2913215000.00%
2026 spring3011213000.00%
2026 spring314151020.00%
2026 spring32404000.00%
2026 spring33606000.00%
2026 spring34235000.00%
2026 spring356281012.50%
2026 spring36202000.00%
2026 spring37224000.00%
2026 spring383031133.33%
2026 spring3910111100.00%
2026 spring4610111100.00%

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 springMar 27 - Jun 4, 202612A (excluding the closure area within House Rock Wildlife Area, see note), 12B, and 13A (Kaibab Plateau Herd)Bull bison only20220

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
  • 2026-Spring-Regulations_250908.pdf — the regulations booklet this cycle's species, unit and permit count were read from

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