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Arizona bison hunt 7511

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 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 10 hunt permit-tags on hunt 7511 in 2026, of which at most 2 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 546 applications named it, and 10 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 26.

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 fall0314677000.00%
2026 fall1435598101.02%
2026 fall2273057000.00%
2026 fall3213556000.00%
2026 fall4251944000.00%
2026 fall562228000.00%
2026 fall691221000.00%
2026 fall7151833103.03%
2026 fall8101020105.00%
2026 fall961117000.00%
2026 fall1014620105.00%
2026 fall1151217105.88%
2026 fall1258133023.08%
2026 fall13156000.00%
2026 fall14156000.00%
2026 fall15134000.00%
2026 fall16055000.00%
2026 fall17044000.00%
2026 fall18246000.00%
2026 fall19235000.00%
2026 fall2001110100.00%
2026 fall21022000.00%
2026 fall22112000.00%
2026 fall232021050.00%
2026 fall25011000.00%
2026 fall26011000.00%
2025 fall09637133000.00%
2025 fall110940149100.67%
2025 fall2722193000.00%
2025 fall3622284101.19%
2025 fall4401050204.00%
2025 fall5451964203.13%
2025 fall6181129103.45%
2025 fall726935000.00%
2025 fall8331043102.33%
2025 fall921829000.00%
2025 fall1014317000.00%
2025 fall1113215106.67%
2025 fall1214519105.26%
2025 fall1311213107.69%
2025 fall14505000.00%
2025 fall15213000.00%
2025 fall16729000.00%
2025 fall17516000.00%
2025 fall18639000.00%
2025 fall19112000.00%
2025 fall20213000.00%
2025 fall21404000.00%
2025 fall2210110100.00%
2025 fall23101000.00%
2025 fall24101000.00%
2025 fall26101000.00%
2025 fall28101000.00%
2025 fall29101000.00%
2024 fall0212344000.00%
2024 fall1121325000.00%
2024 fall2121123000.00%
2024 fall3369000.00%
2024 fall411718000.00%
2024 fall58816000.00%
2024 fall67714000.00%
2024 fall7369000.00%
2024 fall8156000.00%
2024 fall95510000.00%
2024 fall1011011000.00%
2024 fall113141025.00%
2024 fall12729000.00%
2024 fall13549000.00%
2024 fall14112000.00%
2024 fall15336000.00%
2024 fall16314000.00%
2024 fall17235000.00%
2024 fall18123000.00%
2024 fall19022000.00%
2024 fall20246000.00%
2024 fall21314000.00%
2024 fall22101000.00%
2024 fall23011000.00%
2024 fall24325000.00%
2024 fall26101000.00%
2024 fall27022000.00%
2024 fall28123000.00%
2024 fall29303000.00%
2024 fall34101000.00%
2024 fall35033000.00%
2024 fall36112000.00%
2024 fall3710111100.00%

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 fallSep 11 - Oct 1, 202612A (excluding the closure area within House Rock Wildlife Area, see note), 12B, and 13A (Kaibab Plateau Herd)Cow bison only10210
2025 fallAug 1 - Aug 21, 202512A (excluding the closed northeast portion of House Rock Wildlife Area - see note), 12B and 13A (Kaibab Plateau Herd)Cow bison only12212
2024 fallDec 20 - Dec 24, 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 7511 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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