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Arizona bison hunt 7503

House Rock Wildlife Area only (House Rock Herd) in Unit 12A East. 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 7503 in 2026, of which at most 0 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 572 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 39.

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 fall06449113000.00%
2026 fall1493584000.00%
2026 fall2411859000.00%
2026 fall3222345000.00%
2026 fall4231942000.00%
2026 fall5161329000.00%
2026 fall6191534000.00%
2026 fall718725000.00%
2026 fall8141024000.00%
2026 fall912517000.00%
2026 fall108715000.00%
2026 fall11426000.00%
2026 fall12459000.00%
2026 fall13437000.00%
2026 fall14224000.00%
2026 fall15336000.00%
2026 fall16628000.00%
2026 fall17303000.00%
2026 fall18426000.00%
2026 fall19437000.00%
2026 fall207181012.50%
2026 fall21213000.00%
2026 fall22202000.00%
2026 fall23202000.00%
2026 fall24213000.00%
2026 fall27112000.00%
2026 fall28112000.00%
2026 fall30101000.00%
2026 fall31101000.00%
2026 fall32101000.00%
2026 fall34112000.00%
2026 fall38101000.00%
2026 fall39011000.00%
2025 fall0523385101.18%
2025 fall1464490000.00%
2025 fall2271441000.00%
2025 fall3282755000.00%
2025 fall4282149000.00%
2025 fall511920000.00%
2025 fall614923000.00%
2025 fall712517000.00%
2025 fall891019000.00%
2025 fall981018000.00%
2025 fall108614000.00%
2025 fall113710000.00%
2025 fall125813000.00%
2025 fall133912108.33%
2025 fall14459000.00%
2025 fall15415000.00%
2025 fall16437000.00%
2025 fall17347000.00%
2025 fall18213000.00%
2025 fall19325000.00%
2025 fall20235000.00%
2025 fall21033000.00%
2025 fall22112000.00%
2025 fall26101000.00%
2025 fall27101000.00%
2025 fall32101000.00%
2025 fall34101000.00%
2024 fall0395190000.00%
2024 fall1365793000.00%
2024 fall2274976000.00%
2024 fall3274370000.00%
2024 fall4162743000.00%
2024 fall5163046000.00%
2024 fall692130000.00%
2024 fall7111829000.00%
2024 fall892029000.00%
2024 fall981220000.00%
2024 fall1061521000.00%
2024 fall1191423000.00%
2024 fall1251015000.00%
2024 fall138513000.00%
2024 fall1471017000.00%
2024 fall158715000.00%
2024 fall16156000.00%
2024 fall1751015000.00%
2024 fall18459000.00%
2024 fall19549000.00%
2024 fall203811000.00%
2024 fall21167000.00%
2024 fall22279000.00%
2024 fall23257000.00%
2024 fall24369000.00%
2024 fall251671014.29%
2024 fall26145000.00%
2024 fall27268000.00%
2024 fall28213000.00%
2024 fall29077000.00%
2024 fall30044000.00%
2024 fall31235000.00%
2024 fall32123000.00%
2024 fall33213000.00%
2024 fall34101000.00%
2024 fall35033000.00%
2024 fall36011000.00%

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 13 - Nov 17, 2026House Rock Wildlife Area only (House Rock Herd) in Unit 12A EastDesignated cow bison101
2025 fallNov 14 - Nov 18, 2025House Rock Wildlife Area only (House Rock Herd) in Unit 12A EastDesignated cow bison202
2024 fallNov 8 - Nov 12, 20245A and 5B (Raymond Herd)Designated cow bison101

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 7503 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
  • 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
  • 2025-26-Arizona-Hunting-Regulations_250506.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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