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Arizona deer hunt 1200

3A and 3C. 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 20 hunt permit-tags on hunt 1200 in 2026, of which at most 2 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 548 applications named it, and 20 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 fall0283260101.67%
2026 fall1573996000.00%
2026 fall25152103100.97%
2026 fall3444286202.33%
2026 fall4322153407.55%
2026 fall5261541000.00%
2026 fall6152035308.57%
2026 fall7191736102.78%
2026 fall884124033.33%
2026 fall93811000.00%
2026 fall104483337.50%
2026 fall12224000.00%
2026 fall14011000.00%
2026 fall16101000.00%
2026 fall2110111100.00%
2025 fall040317110014.08%
2025 fall1914013132024.43%
2025 fall2715612748037.80%
2025 fall342186031951.67%
2025 fall48715141493.33%
2025 fall51121150.00%
2025 fall630333100.00%
2025 fall81121150.00%
2024 fall05272028.57%
2024 fall12911000.00%
2024 fall26192511044.00%
2024 fall3113142014.29%
2024 fall40664066.67%
2024 fall52241025.00%
2024 fall612333100.00%
2024 fall802222100.00%

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, 20263A and 3CAny antlered deer20220
2025 fallAug 22 - Sep 11, 202511MAny antlered deer14014140
2024 fallDec 13 - Dec 31, 202411MAntlerless deer252525

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 1200 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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