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Arizona deer hunt 1186

12B West. 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 15 hunt permit-tags on hunt 1186 in 2026, of which at most 1 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 494 applications named it, and 15 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 26.

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 fall0131932000.00%
2026 fall1182745000.00%
2026 fall2223759101.69%
2026 fall3273562101.61%
2026 fall4102030103.33%
2026 fall5242347000.00%
2026 fall6201333309.09%
2026 fall7131932000.00%
2026 fall851318000.00%
2026 fall981321000.00%
2026 fall1051621000.00%
2026 fall118614107.14%
2026 fall121011215023.81%
2026 fall1328101110.00%
2026 fall143581112.50%
2026 fall15145000.00%
2026 fall162241125.00%
2026 fall18178000.00%
2026 fall19268000.00%
2026 fall20156000.00%
2026 fall21123000.00%
2026 fall22011000.00%
2026 fall23022000.00%
2026 fall24011000.00%
2026 fall25011000.00%
2026 fall26022000.00%
2025 fall07354222052.38%
2025 fall117476432050.00%
2025 fall2122436311686.11%
2025 fall30993333.33%
2025 fall901111100.00%
2024 fall021254629063.04%
2024 fall118365432059.26%
2024 fall219294828958.33%
2024 fall31452240.00%
2024 fall42353360.00%
2024 fall520222100.00%
2024 fall604444100.00%

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 12, 202612B WestAny antlered deer15115
2025 fallNov 7 - Nov 13, 202515A, 15B, 15C and 15DAny antlered deer1001089
2024 fallNov 8 - Nov 14, 202415A, 15B, 15C and 15DAny antlered deer10010100

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 1186 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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