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Arizona deer hunt 1001

1. 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 400 hunt permit-tags on hunt 1001 in 2026, of which at most 40 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 4,899 applications named it, and 400 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 16.

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 fall04722587302203.01%
2026 fall16844591,1434003.50%
2026 fall28355041,3398206.12%
2026 fall34513237747609.82%
2026 fall424416841256013.59%
2026 fall513312826128010.73%
2026 fall68767154311520.13%
2026 fall7202343292967.44%
2026 fall891019151578.95%
2026 fall97714121285.71%
2026 fall102132266.67%
2026 fall1104444100.00%
2026 fall1201111100.00%
2026 fall1620222100.00%
2025 fall04812096902703.91%
2025 fall16634511,1145605.03%
2025 fall26184421,0607306.89%
2025 fall33592966556009.16%
2025 fall42231914143508.45%
2025 fall51388522323010.31%
2025 fall65953112241821.43%
2025 fall7181836353597.22%
2025 fall855109990.00%
2025 fall932555100.00%
2025 fall1020222100.00%
2025 fall1201111100.00%
2025 fall13011000.00%
2024 fall03682426101402.30%
2024 fall15633999624104.26%
2024 fall25793939728608.85%
2024 fall334526861377012.56%
2024 fall42201523723709.95%
2024 fall5109982072009.66%
2024 fall6463278181323.08%
2024 fall7242044383886.36%
2024 fall876131313100.00%
2024 fall911222100.00%
2024 fall1004444100.00%

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 fallOct 23 - Nov 1, 20261Any antlered deer40040400
2025 fallOct 24 - Nov 2, 20251Any antlered deer35035350
2024 fallOct 25 - Nov 3, 20241Any antlered deer35035350

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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