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Arizona deer hunt 1085

23. 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 175 hunt permit-tags on hunt 1085 in 2026, of which at most 17 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 898 applications named it, and 175 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 19.

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 fall0653499606.06%
2026 fall18010118126014.36%
2026 fall213517030563020.66%
2026 fall3729616828016.67%
2026 fall440488811012.50%
2026 fall5191736241866.67%
2026 fall610717151588.24%
2026 fall720222100.00%
2026 fall8011000.00%
2026 fall19011000.00%
2025 fall05070120806.67%
2025 fall111811022827011.84%
2025 fall213417530947015.21%
2025 fall3799217144025.73%
2025 fall428406818426.47%
2025 fall571724222291.67%
2025 fall62462233.33%
2025 fall70553360.00%
2025 fall820222100.00%
2025 fall911222100.00%
2024 fall06565130000.00%
2024 fall1133105238401.68%
2024 fall21791323111103.54%
2024 fall3117104221904.07%
2024 fall46852120403.33%
2024 fall5442670608.57%
2024 fall6272754407.41%
2024 fall792635102.86%
2024 fall85611109.09%
2024 fall91514294413.79%
2024 fall1028104440.00%
2024 fall11202000.00%
2024 fall12101000.00%
2024 fall13011000.00%
2024 fall141562233.33%

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 - Oct 29, 202623Antlered whitetail deer17517175
2025 fallOct 24 - Oct 30, 202523Antlered whitetail deer17517175
2024 fallDec 13 - Dec 31, 202422Antlered whitetail deer50550

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 1085 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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