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Arizona deer hunt 1204

12A (excluding Grand Canyon National Park) and 12B. 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 300 hunt permit-tags on hunt 1204 in 2026, of which at most 30 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 2,182 applications named it, and 300 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 fall010893201401.99%
2026 fall11721122842609.15%
2026 fall225912938851013.14%
2026 fall318214532734010.40%
2026 fall4999519439020.10%
2026 fall5797515419012.34%
2026 fall6828516722013.17%
2026 fall7686112924018.60%
2026 fall844438724927.59%
2026 fall9334174161221.62%
2026 fall10272653101018.87%
2026 fall111618348823.53%
2026 fall121319326418.75%
2026 fall137815116.67%
2026 fall145611000.00%
2026 fall1555101110.00%
2026 fall164593333.33%
2026 fall1731444100.00%
2026 fall1821333100.00%
2026 fall2001111100.00%
2026 fall2110111100.00%
2026 fall2201111100.00%
2026 fall2301111100.00%
2026 fall2410111100.00%
2026 fall26011000.00%
2025 fall03972111000.00%
2025 fall1346599101.01%
2025 fall23574109000.00%
2025 fall3335790000.00%
2025 fall4305585000.00%
2025 fall5152136102.78%
2025 fall6263662101.61%
2025 fall7214465000.00%
2025 fall8192746306.52%
2025 fall9173552305.77%
2025 fall10143953000.00%
2025 fall11101727103.70%
2025 fall12131730000.00%
2025 fall1381321104.76%
2025 fall1472027103.70%
2025 fall1511011000.00%
2025 fall1611112118.33%
2025 fall170772228.57%
2025 fall1801313000.00%
2025 fall1911011000.00%
2025 fall20033000.00%
2025 fall21112000.00%
2025 fall22279000.00%
2025 fall23044000.00%
2025 fall24044000.00%
2025 fall25145000.00%
2025 fall26011000.00%
2024 fall0262046102.17%
2024 fall13130618013.11%
2024 fall2584410223022.55%
2024 fall31712296020.69%
2024 fall437102020.00%
2024 fall54595555.56%
2024 fall64154480.00%
2024 fall8011000.00%
2024 fall901111100.00%

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, 202612A (excluding Grand Canyon National Park) and 12BAny antlered deer30030300
2025 fallAug 22 - Sep 11, 202513AAny antlered deer15115
2024 falland Dec 13 - Dec 31, 202417AAny antlered deer50550

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 1204 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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