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Arizona deer hunt 1047

30A. 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 125 hunt permit-tags on hunt 1047 in 2026, of which at most 12 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 550 applications named it, and 125 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 6.

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 fall0476311011010.00%
2026 fall19614724347019.34%
2026 fall2618114236025.35%
2026 fall3222244221650.00%
2026 fall45497777.78%
2026 fall510111100.00%
2026 fall610111100.00%
2025 fall0546812217013.93%
2025 fall18614923551021.70%
2025 fall26810917760833.90%
2025 fall3131831161651.61%
2025 fall45386675.00%
2025 fall5011000.00%
2024 fall01177218924012.70%
2024 fall121012133192027.79%
2024 fall211595210821839.05%
2024 fall3181129222275.86%
2024 fall45275571.43%
2024 fall5022000.00%
2024 fall6011000.00%

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 fallNov 13 - Nov 19, 202630AAntlered mule deer12512125
2025 fallNov 14 - Nov 20, 202530AAntlered mule deer15015150
2024 fallNov 1 - Nov 7, 202430AAntlered mule deer22522225

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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