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Arizona bison hunt 7512

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 5 hunt permit-tags on hunt 7512 in 2026, of which at most 0 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 331 applications named it, and 5 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 fall0192746000.00%
2026 fall1174158000.00%
2026 fall2162137000.00%
2026 fall3151934000.00%
2026 fall441721000.00%
2026 fall5121022104.55%
2026 fall66814000.00%
2026 fall741014000.00%
2026 fall851621000.00%
2026 fall941216106.25%
2026 fall10369000.00%
2026 fall112571014.29%
2026 fall124711000.00%
2026 fall13314000.00%
2026 fall14112000.00%
2026 fall15213000.00%
2026 fall162021050.00%
2026 fall17033000.00%
2026 fall1810110100.00%
2026 fall19123000.00%
2026 fall25112000.00%
2026 fall36011000.00%
2025 fall0266490000.00%
2025 fall1316192101.09%
2025 fall2273966000.00%
2025 fall3142640000.00%
2025 fall4122335205.71%
2025 fall582028000.00%
2025 fall69716106.25%
2025 fall73912000.00%
2025 fall841115106.67%
2025 fall946101010.00%
2025 fall101891011.11%
2025 fall11268000.00%
2025 fall12268000.00%
2025 fall13167000.00%
2025 fall143362033.33%
2025 fall15235000.00%
2025 fall165491011.11%
2025 fall17022000.00%
2025 fall18022000.00%
2025 fall19112000.00%
2025 fall21011000.00%
2025 fall22213000.00%
2025 fall23011000.00%
2025 fall26011000.00%
2025 fall29011000.00%
2024 fall0291847000.00%
2024 fall1301646000.00%
2024 fall2361349000.00%
2024 fall323932103.13%
2024 fall4201030206.67%
2024 fall518321104.76%
2024 fall615015000.00%
2024 fall719726103.85%
2024 fall8718000.00%
2024 fall974112018.18%
2024 fall107291011.11%
2024 fall114481012.50%
2024 fall12336000.00%
2024 fall132021050.00%
2024 fall14527000.00%
2024 fall15505000.00%
2024 fall16303000.00%
2024 fall17101000.00%
2024 fall18101000.00%
2024 fall21011000.00%
2024 fall27011000.00%

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 fallOct 16 - Oct 29, 202612A (excluding the closure area within House Rock Wildlife Area, see note), 12B, and 13A (Kaibab Plateau Herd)Cow bison only505
2025 fallSep 12 - Oct 1, 202512A (excluding the closed northeast portion of House Rock Wildlife Area - see note), 12B and 13A (Kaibab Plateau Herd)Cow bison only10210
2024 fallSep 13 - Oct 2, 202412A (excluding the closed northeast portion of House Rock Wildlife Area - see note), 12B and 13A (Kaibab Plateau Herd)Cow bison only10210

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 7512 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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