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Arizona deer hunt 1070

42 (excluding Skyline and White Tank Mountain Regional Parks). 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 275 hunt permit-tags on hunt 1070 in 2026, of which at most 27 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 662 applications named it, and 275 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 fall0626813039030.00%
2026 fall111810822687038.50%
2026 fall28110919087045.79%
2026 fall3394988463952.27%
2026 fall4121123131356.52%
2026 fall502222100.00%
2026 fall61231133.33%
2025 fall0959719224012.50%
2025 fall111713825580031.37%
2025 fall210513223797040.93%
2025 fall3375390624368.89%
2025 fall41896666.67%
2025 fall56396666.67%
2025 fall6011000.00%
2024 fall018017335359016.71%
2024 fall1353279632175027.69%
2024 fall2257285542185034.13%
2024 fall37397170987757.65%
2024 fall4202040242460.00%
2024 fall566128866.67%
2024 fall1310111100.00%

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 6 - Nov 15, 202642 (excluding Skyline and White Tank Mountain Regional Parks)Any antlered deer27527275
2025 fallNov 7 - Nov 16, 202542 (excluding Skyline and White Tank Mountain Regional Parks)Any antlered deer27527275
2024 fallNov 8 - Nov 17, 202441 (Special Restrictions Apply - See Note 7)Any antlered deer55055550

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 1070 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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