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Arizona deer hunt 1011

8. 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 350 hunt permit-tags on hunt 1011 in 2026, of which at most 35 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 3,110 applications named it, and 350 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 12.

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 fall02502595091903.73%
2026 fall14504128626607.66%
2026 fall243039682684010.17%
2026 fall325226952165012.48%
2026 fall413112725834013.18%
2026 fall5534194473550.00%
2026 fall6151429252586.21%
2026 fall725777100.00%
2026 fall801111100.00%
2026 fall101121150.00%
2026 fall1201111100.00%
2025 fall05693929617607.91%
2025 fall11,0396321,671262015.68%
2025 fall29056851,590294018.49%
2025 fall3480380860226026.28%
2025 fall421917439316210041.22%
2025 fall56043103898986.41%
2025 fall6121426222284.62%
2025 fall773108880.00%
2025 fall82576685.71%
2025 fall92352240.00%
2025 fall101232266.67%
2025 fall1710111100.00%
2024 fall02252464712204.67%
2024 fall14403958355005.99%
2024 fall238939878795012.07%
2024 fall322625247851010.67%
2024 fall49111020121010.45%
2024 fall5273360373661.67%
2024 fall681826151557.69%
2024 fall723555100.00%
2024 fall802222100.00%
2024 fall1010111100.00%
2024 fall1401111100.00%

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 30 - Nov 5, 20268Antlered mule deer35035350
2025 fallOct 31 - Nov 9, 20257 and 9Any antlered deer1,1501151,150
2024 fallNov 1 - Nov 7, 20248Antlered mule deer30030300

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 1011 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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