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Arizona bison hunt 7513

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 7513 in 2026, of which at most 0 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 387 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 fall0452469000.00%
2026 fall1662490101.11%
2026 fall2291645000.00%
2026 fall3161430000.00%
2026 fall413922000.00%
2026 fall510717000.00%
2026 fall6639000.00%
2026 fall7639000.00%
2026 fall813316106.25%
2026 fall98412000.00%
2026 fall10235000.00%
2026 fall119413107.69%
2026 fall1210010000.00%
2026 fall133361016.67%
2026 fall141341025.00%
2026 fall15527000.00%
2026 fall16246000.00%
2026 fall17303000.00%
2026 fall18202000.00%
2026 fall19213000.00%
2026 fall20213000.00%
2026 fall22101000.00%
2026 fall24101000.00%
2026 fall29101000.00%
2026 fall30011000.00%
2026 fall31101000.00%
2026 fall36101000.00%
2025 fall0162945000.00%
2025 fall1101929000.00%
2025 fall261925000.00%
2025 fall35712000.00%
2025 fall42911000.00%
2025 fall53811109.09%
2025 fall631114000.00%
2025 fall7268000.00%
2025 fall8257000.00%
2025 fall9178000.00%
2025 fall103472028.57%
2025 fall113361016.67%
2025 fall12123000.00%
2025 fall13314000.00%
2025 fall163031033.33%
2025 fall17101000.00%
2025 fall18202000.00%
2024 fall041519000.00%
2024 fall162127000.00%
2024 fall242226103.85%
2024 fall3102030000.00%
2024 fall49716106.25%
2024 fall501212000.00%
2024 fall631114107.14%
2024 fall721012000.00%
2024 fall8369000.00%
2024 fall9123000.00%
2024 fall102571014.29%
2024 fall112571014.29%
2024 fall12246000.00%
2024 fall13011000.00%
2024 fall14055000.00%
2024 fall15055000.00%
2024 fall16112000.00%
2024 fall17011000.00%
2024 fall21101000.00%
2024 fall23101000.00%

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 6 - Dec 31, 2026 ON PAGES 65-74.12A (excluding the closure area within House Rock Wildlife Area, see note), 12B, and 13A (Kaibab Plateau Herd)Cow bison only505
2025 fallOct 17 - Oct 30, 202512A (excluding the closed northeast portion of House Rock Wildlife Area - see note), 12B and 13A (Kaibab Plateau Herd)Cow bison only505
2024 fallOct 18 - Oct 31, 202412A (excluding the closed northeast portion of House Rock Wildlife Area - see note), 12B and 13A (Kaibab Plateau Herd)Cow bison only505

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 7513 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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