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Arizona · Deer · Hunt 1179

Arizona deer hunt 1179

12A West (excluding Grand Canyon National Park). 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 10 hunt permit-tags on hunt 1179 in 2026, of which at most 1 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 173 applications named it, and 10 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 15.

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 fall0729000.00%
2026 fall112517000.00%
2026 fall2221133103.03%
2026 fall3171027103.70%
2026 fall4729000.00%
2026 fall59312108.33%
2026 fall6617000.00%
2026 fall7527000.00%
2026 fall810212108.33%
2026 fall96173042.86%
2026 fall1064101010.00%
2026 fall11426000.00%
2026 fall12336000.00%
2026 fall13213000.00%
2026 fall14426000.00%
2026 fall1520222100.00%
2025 fall0729000.00%
2025 fall127633000.00%
2025 fall225631000.00%
2025 fall319524104.17%
2025 fall421526000.00%
2025 fall522931206.45%
2025 fall673101010.00%
2025 fall710515000.00%
2025 fall88412108.33%
2025 fall912416106.25%
2025 fall10437000.00%
2025 fall11325000.00%
2025 fall12314000.00%
2025 fall131231033.33%
2025 fall14213000.00%
2025 fall151232266.67%
2025 fall17101000.00%
2025 fall1810110100.00%
2024 fall012113107.69%
2024 fall114418000.00%
2024 fall2279364011.11%
2024 fall325732000.00%
2024 fall423629103.45%
2024 fall510212108.33%
2024 fall66410000.00%
2024 fall7426000.00%
2024 fall88513107.69%
2024 fall9314000.00%
2024 fall10639000.00%
2024 fall11314000.00%
2024 fall12101000.00%
2024 fall14011000.00%
2024 fall150221150.00%
2024 fall1610111100.00%

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 fallSep 18 - Sep 24, 202612A West (excluding Grand Canyon National Park)Any antlered deer10110
2025 fallSep 19 - Sep 25, 202512A West (excluding Grand Canyon National Park)Any antlered deer10110
2024 fallSep 20 - Sep 26, 202412A West (excluding Grand Canyon National Park)Any antlered deer10110

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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