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Arizona bison hunt 7504

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 7504 in 2026, of which at most 0 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 447 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 fall0254772000.00%
2026 fall1244771000.00%
2026 fall2152944000.00%
2026 fall3132134000.00%
2026 fall491524000.00%
2026 fall551823000.00%
2026 fall6111829000.00%
2026 fall7101626000.00%
2026 fall841115000.00%
2026 fall901111000.00%
2026 fall10279000.00%
2026 fall118412000.00%
2026 fall12167000.00%
2026 fall1361117000.00%
2026 fall14134000.00%
2026 fall15044000.00%
2026 fall16178000.00%
2026 fall17123000.00%
2026 fall18123000.00%
2026 fall19112000.00%
2026 fall20033000.00%
2026 fall21112000.00%
2026 fall22033000.00%
2026 fall23224000.00%
2026 fall24112000.00%
2026 fall25112000.00%
2026 fall27011000.00%
2026 fall28022000.00%
2026 fall29022000.00%
2026 fall30011000.00%
2026 fall31011000.00%
2026 fall32213000.00%
2026 fall34112000.00%
2026 fall3910111100.00%
2025 fall0264167000.00%
2025 fall1153247000.00%
2025 fall2182341000.00%
2025 fall3122335000.00%
2025 fall4142236000.00%
2025 fall561016000.00%
2025 fall631013000.00%
2025 fall751318000.00%
2025 fall8099000.00%
2025 fall9257000.00%
2025 fall102911000.00%
2025 fall11448000.00%
2025 fall123710000.00%
2025 fall13347000.00%
2025 fall14112000.00%
2025 fall15033000.00%
2025 fall163710000.00%
2025 fall17022000.00%
2025 fall18224000.00%
2025 fall19134000.00%
2025 fall202241025.00%
2025 fall21426000.00%
2025 fall27112000.00%
2025 fall28101000.00%
2025 fall29101000.00%
2025 fall30202000.00%
2025 fall34011000.00%
2025 fall3510111100.00%
2024 fall0234568000.00%
2024 fall1245074000.00%
2024 fall2324779000.00%
2024 fall3273057000.00%
2024 fall4142741000.00%
2024 fall5111930000.00%
2024 fall6101626000.00%
2024 fall721113000.00%
2024 fall881422000.00%
2024 fall9111425000.00%
2024 fall1061218000.00%
2024 fall1141519000.00%
2024 fall1241418000.00%
2024 fall1381321000.00%
2024 fall145914000.00%
2024 fall156814000.00%
2024 fall165611000.00%
2024 fall1710818000.00%
2024 fall185611000.00%
2024 fall1961117000.00%
2024 fall20347000.00%
2024 fall21134000.00%
2024 fall22145000.00%
2024 fall23123000.00%
2024 fall24134000.00%
2024 fall25448000.00%
2024 fall26101000.00%
2024 fall27213000.00%
2024 fall28426000.00%
2024 fall29224000.00%
2024 fall30325000.00%
2024 fall31224000.00%
2024 fall32022000.00%
2024 fall33033000.00%
2024 fall34224000.00%
2024 fall35415000.00%
2024 fall361231133.33%
2024 fall4110111100.00%

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 fallNov 20 - Nov 24, 2026House Rock Wildlife Area only (House Rock Herd) in Unit 12A EastDesignated cow bison101
2025 fallNov 21 - Nov 25, 2025House Rock Wildlife Area only (House Rock Herd) in Unit 12A EastDesignated cow bison202
2024 fallNov 15 - Nov 19, 20245A and 5B (Raymond Herd)Designated cow bison202

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 7504 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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