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Arizona deer hunt 1036

22. 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 325 hunt permit-tags on hunt 1036 in 2026, of which at most 32 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 1,767 applications named it, and 325 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 9.

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 fall01771723493008.60%
2026 fall126127453556010.47%
2026 fall222222845093020.67%
2026 fall311814125960023.17%
2026 fall45267119432236.13%
2026 fall5191433292987.88%
2026 fall671118111161.11%
2026 fall7011000.00%
2026 fall801111100.00%
2026 fall920222100.00%
2025 fall06781148000.00%
2025 fall191101192000.00%
2025 fall211784201502.49%
2025 fall38277159100.63%
2025 fall4473481000.00%
2025 fall5151934000.00%
2025 fall611718000.00%
2025 fall711920105.00%
2025 fall8617000.00%
2025 fall9235000.00%
2025 fall10235000.00%
2025 fall112351020.00%
2025 fall12404000.00%
2025 fall13123000.00%
2025 fall1401111100.00%
2025 fall1701111100.00%
2024 fall05877135000.00%
2024 fall17497171201.17%
2024 fall28773160100.63%
2024 fall3404585202.35%
2024 fall4212849000.00%
2024 fall5141226207.69%
2024 fall6111526000.00%
2024 fall7437000.00%
2024 fall85813000.00%
2024 fall9336000.00%
2024 fall101451020.00%
2024 fall110221150.00%
2024 fall1201111100.00%
2024 fall14101000.00%
2024 fall16101000.00%
2024 fall17101000.00%

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, 202622Antlered mule deer32532325
2025 fallDec 12 - Dec 31, 202521Antlered mule deer10110
2024 fallDec 13 - Dec 31, 202421Antlered mule deer10110

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 1036 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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