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Arizona · Bison · Hunt 7508

Arizona bison hunt 7508

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 2 hunt permit-tags on hunt 7508 in 2026, of which at most 0 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 246 applications named it, and 2 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 36.

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 fall0171330000.00%
2026 fall1231437000.00%
2026 fall281321000.00%
2026 fall317522104.55%
2026 fall48412000.00%
2026 fall55510000.00%
2026 fall64610000.00%
2026 fall76612000.00%
2026 fall8448000.00%
2026 fall98412108.33%
2026 fall10336000.00%
2026 fall115712000.00%
2026 fall12033000.00%
2026 fall13336000.00%
2026 fall14347000.00%
2026 fall15257000.00%
2026 fall16112000.00%
2026 fall17011000.00%
2026 fall18011000.00%
2026 fall19011000.00%
2026 fall20325000.00%
2026 fall21123000.00%
2026 fall22112000.00%
2026 fall23101000.00%
2026 fall24213000.00%
2026 fall25224000.00%
2026 fall27325000.00%
2026 fall28101000.00%
2026 fall32011000.00%
2026 fall36101000.00%
2025 fall0171734000.00%
2025 fall1181230000.00%
2025 fall2141529000.00%
2025 fall3141529000.00%
2025 fall4141428000.00%
2025 fall571118000.00%
2025 fall67714000.00%
2025 fall78412000.00%
2025 fall86612000.00%
2025 fall97815000.00%
2025 fall1010717000.00%
2025 fall11448000.00%
2025 fall125813000.00%
2025 fall13459000.00%
2025 fall147512000.00%
2025 fall15459000.00%
2025 fall16134000.00%
2025 fall17134000.00%
2025 fall18235000.00%
2025 fall19426000.00%
2025 fall20033000.00%
2025 fall21415000.00%
2025 fall22101000.00%
2025 fall23213000.00%
2025 fall24101000.00%
2025 fall25516000.00%
2025 fall26112000.00%
2025 fall28202000.00%
2025 fall29022000.00%
2025 fall30112000.00%
2025 fall31011000.00%
2025 fall33011000.00%
2025 fall34101000.00%
2025 fall35011000.00%
2025 fall371121150.00%
2025 fall381121150.00%
2024 fall0321547000.00%
2024 fall1222042000.00%
2024 fall2271542000.00%
2024 fall371522000.00%
2024 fall413821000.00%
2024 fall54913000.00%
2024 fall6459000.00%
2024 fall715823000.00%
2024 fall87512000.00%
2024 fall9111526000.00%
2024 fall106612000.00%
2024 fall117512108.33%
2024 fall1210313000.00%
2024 fall137310000.00%
2024 fall14303000.00%
2024 fall156511000.00%
2024 fall16426000.00%
2024 fall17268000.00%
2024 fall18325000.00%
2024 fall19112000.00%
2024 fall20101000.00%
2024 fall21224000.00%
2024 fall22101000.00%
2024 fall23314000.00%
2024 fall24101000.00%
2024 fall25123000.00%
2024 fall26314000.00%
2024 fall27011000.00%
2024 fall28055000.00%
2024 fall29101000.00%
2024 fall32202000.00%
2024 fall33213000.00%
2024 fall361121150.00%

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 fallDec 4 - Dec 8, 2026House Rock Wildlife Area only (House Rock Herd) in Unit 12A EastDesignated yearling bison202
2025 fallDec 19 - Dec 23, 20255A and 5B (Raymond Herd)Designated yearling bison202
2024 fallNov 22 - Nov 26, 20245A and 5B (Raymond Herd)Designated yearling bison202

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 7508 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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