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Arizona deer hunt 1199

1. 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 160 hunt permit-tags on hunt 1199 in 2026, of which at most 16 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 571 applications named it, and 160 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 21.

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 fall04169110706.36%
2026 fall1727414638026.03%
2026 fall2779216948028.40%
2026 fall339448326031.33%
2026 fall417122916755.17%
2026 fall59918131372.22%
2026 fall62575571.43%
2026 fall72353360.00%
2026 fall820222100.00%
2026 fall1101111100.00%
2026 fall2101111100.00%
2025 fall0294372000.00%
2025 fall1544195000.00%
2025 fall27250122302.46%
2025 fall35648104100.96%
2025 fall4513081506.17%
2025 fall5172138205.26%
2025 fall6241842204.76%
2025 fall7111122209.09%
2025 fall861319000.00%
2025 fall93581112.50%
2025 fall100552240.00%
2025 fall11314000.00%
2025 fall1310110100.00%
2025 fall15202000.00%
2025 fall16011000.00%
2025 fall2101111100.00%
2024 fall01217294013.79%
2024 fall123285112023.53%
2024 fall219254416036.36%
2024 fall3781510266.67%
2024 fall45276685.71%
2024 fall51341125.00%
2024 fall61121150.00%

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 fallAug 21 - Sep 10, 20261Any antlered deer16016160
2025 fallAug 22 - Sep 11, 20253A and 3CAny antlered deer20220
2024 fallNov 1 - Nov 14, 202411MAntlerless deer505050

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 1199 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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