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Arizona elk hunt 3002

4B. What each bonus point level actually did in Arizona's midwinter 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 3002 in 2026, of which at most 1 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 2,703 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 25.

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 midwinter0173225398000.00%
2026 midwinter1182240422100.24%
2026 midwinter2230214444000.00%
2026 midwinter3166158324401.23%
2026 midwinter4108110218000.00%
2026 midwinter590108198000.00%
2026 midwinter66197158100.63%
2026 midwinter75973132201.52%
2026 midwinter84262104000.00%
2026 midwinter9304575304.00%
2026 midwinter10153550000.00%
2026 midwinter11163854000.00%
2026 midwinter12121729000.00%
2026 midwinter1341418000.00%
2026 midwinter1461218000.00%
2026 midwinter153912000.00%
2026 midwinter16088000.00%
2026 midwinter1711314000.00%
2026 midwinter18257000.00%
2026 midwinter191781012.50%
2026 midwinter202241125.00%
2026 midwinter214262233.33%
2026 midwinter23011000.00%
2026 midwinter25101000.00%
2025 midwinter0490482972000.00%
2025 midwinter1474448922000.00%
2025 midwinter2524406930000.00%
2025 midwinter3411368779000.00%
2025 midwinter4363308671100.15%
2025 midwinter5283222505100.20%
2025 midwinter6248222470200.43%
2025 midwinter7213174387401.03%
2025 midwinter8190151341000.00%
2025 midwinter9165175340100.29%
2025 midwinter10118109227100.44%
2025 midwinter1191104195000.00%
2025 midwinter126680146000.00%
2025 midwinter137278150100.67%
2025 midwinter145974133100.75%
2025 midwinter15343569101.45%
2025 midwinter16323870101.43%
2025 midwinter17272451000.00%
2025 midwinter18282250102.00%
2025 midwinter19252045000.00%
2025 midwinter20203050000.00%
2025 midwinter21182139102.56%
2025 midwinter22101727000.00%
2025 midwinter23122032000.00%
2025 midwinter246713117.69%
2025 midwinter25127192210.53%
2025 midwinter26336000.00%
2025 midwinter27336000.00%
2025 midwinter28123000.00%
2025 midwinter290221150.00%

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 midwinterSep 25 - Oct 1, 20264BBull elk15115
2025 midwinterSep 26 - Oct 2, 20253A and 3CBull elk20220

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 3002 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 M Bonus Point Report — 2026-M-Bonus-Point-Report.pdf, fetched 2026-09-04
  • 2025 M Bonus Point Report — 2025-Bonus-Point-Report.pdf, fetched 2026-09-04
  • 2026-Pronghorn-and-Elk-Regulations_251223.pdf — the regulations booklet this cycle's species, unit and permit count were read from
  • 2025-Pronghorn-and-Elk-Regulations_250106.pdf — the regulations booklet this cycle's species, unit and permit count were read from

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