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Arizona deer hunt 1183

3B. 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 1183 in 2026, of which at most 1 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 296 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 17.

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 fall0231538000.00%
2026 fall1213152000.00%
2026 fall2502777303.90%
2026 fall3222547000.00%
2026 fall4201939000.00%
2026 fall5104143021.43%
2026 fall6448000.00%
2026 fall74481012.50%
2026 fall83361016.67%
2026 fall10011000.00%
2026 fall11101000.00%
2026 fall1310111100.00%
2026 fall15022000.00%
2026 fall1601111100.00%
2026 fall17011000.00%
2025 fall0121325000.00%
2025 fall1161834000.00%
2025 fall2322052305.77%
2025 fall3282553305.66%
2025 fall4111930000.00%
2025 fall5151631206.45%
2025 fall641721000.00%
2025 fall791827103.70%
2025 fall86915000.00%
2025 fall941014000.00%
2025 fall105914000.00%
2025 fall111782025.00%
2025 fall121561016.67%
2025 fall130772228.57%
2025 fall14033000.00%
2025 fall151231133.33%
2025 fall16011000.00%
2025 fall17011000.00%
2025 fall18011000.00%
2025 fall19101000.00%
2025 fall20011000.00%
2025 fall21011000.00%
2025 fall23112000.00%
2024 fall0112031000.00%
2024 fall1212041000.00%
2024 fall2242448204.17%
2024 fall3131528000.00%
2024 fall4141832103.13%
2024 fall5151530000.00%
2024 fall6131730103.33%
2024 fall761925104.00%
2024 fall8614204020.00%
2024 fall955101010.00%
2024 fall10369000.00%
2024 fall112461016.67%
2024 fall121451120.00%
2024 fall130442250.00%
2024 fall15033000.00%
2024 fall17011000.00%
2024 fall18101000.00%
2024 fall19022000.00%
2024 fall20112000.00%
2024 fall2301110100.00%

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 fallDec 11 - Dec 31, 20263BAny antlered deer10110
2025 fallNov 7 - Nov 13, 202512A East (excluding Grand Canyon National Park)Any antlered deer15115
2024 fallNov 8 - Nov 14, 202412A East (excluding Grand Canyon National Park)Any antlered deer15115

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 1183 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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