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Arizona deer hunt 1088

24A. 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 250 hunt permit-tags on hunt 1088 in 2026, of which at most 25 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 499 applications named it, and 250 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 fall045368116019.75%
2026 fall1947416876045.24%
2026 fall2808416486052.44%
2026 fall3292554452383.33%
2026 fall491120151575.00%
2026 fall5010101010100.00%
2026 fall602222100.00%
2025 fall0634310628026.42%
2025 fall11178920679038.35%
2025 fall28910219198051.31%
2025 fall3314071473266.20%
2025 fall487151515100.00%
2025 fall51343375.00%
2025 fall61343375.00%
2025 fall720222100.00%
2024 fall09388181100.55%
2024 fall1148142290602.07%
2024 fall2237152389802.06%
2024 fall31761403161304.11%
2024 fall410167168603.57%
2024 fall55067117403.42%
2024 fall6504191707.69%
2024 fall73827659013.85%
2024 fall8202343409.30%
2024 fall9131730103.33%
2024 fall10913226527.27%
2024 fall114595555.56%
2024 fall121121150.00%
2024 fall13202000.00%
2024 fall14617000.00%
2024 fall152132266.67%
2024 fall1610111100.00%
2024 fall1810111100.00%

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 23 - Oct 29, 202624AAntlered whitetail deer25025250
2025 fallOct 24 - Oct 30, 202524AAntlered whitetail deer27527275
2024 fallDec 13 - Dec 31, 202423Antlered whitetail deer75775

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 1088 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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