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Arizona deer hunt 1203

11M. 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 25 hunt permit-tags on hunt 1203 in 2026, of which at most 25 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 77 applications named it, and 25 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 12.

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 fall0411154026.67%
2026 fall1420245020.83%
2026 fall2214165031.25%
2026 fall3313169356.25%
2026 fall41231133.33%
2026 fall5011000.00%
2026 fall710111100.00%
2026 fall12011000.00%
2025 fall012282204301.47%
2025 fall1187142329902.74%
2025 fall23361775135009.75%
2025 fall322012534553015.36%
2025 fall41841383223109.63%
2025 fall51308221232015.09%
2025 fall6666613220015.15%
2025 fall7576111814011.86%
2025 fall8534295262427.37%
2025 fall934276111918.03%
2025 fall101714315216.13%
2025 fall111417315416.13%
2025 fall1231316000.00%
2025 fall133471114.29%
2025 fall146061116.67%
2025 fall1538114436.36%
2025 fall1641555100.00%
2025 fall1730333100.00%
2025 fall1801111100.00%
2025 fall1901111100.00%
2024 fall010057157000.00%
2024 fall111853171000.00%
2024 fall210650156000.00%
2024 fall39552147100.68%
2024 fall4403676000.00%
2024 fall58040120201.67%
2024 fall67635111201.80%
2024 fall76837105000.00%
2024 fall86443107100.93%
2024 fall9643094101.06%
2024 fall10442670000.00%
2024 fall11252449102.04%
2024 fall12392564101.56%
2024 fall13281644102.27%
2024 fall14281240307.50%
2024 fall1517623000.00%
2024 fall1613417105.88%
2024 fall1717926103.85%
2024 fall1811819105.26%
2024 fall19137202210.00%
2024 fall208311119.09%
2024 fall2111213000.00%
2024 fall2210313000.00%
2024 fall23909000.00%
2024 fall2411213000.00%
2024 fall25123000.00%
2024 fall26314000.00%
2024 fall271121150.00%

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, 202611MAntlerless deer252525
2025 fallAug 22 - Sep 11, 202512A (excluding Grand Canyon National Park) and 12BAny antlered deer27527275
2024 fallAug 23 - Sep 12, 202413BAny antlered deer20220

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 1203 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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