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Arizona elk hunt 3010

27. 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 40 hunt permit-tags on hunt 3010 in 2026, of which at most 4 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 7,784 applications named it, and 40 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 27.

Arizona's own two reports disagree about this hunt. Summing the permits the Bonus Point Report gives at each level does not reproduce the total its own Draw Report states for the same hunt in 2025 midwinter. Both published figures are shown — the level rows below come from the Bonus Point Report, the authorized and issued totals above from the Draw Report. We have not resolved the difference in either direction, because the department has not.

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 midwinter0426288714000.00%
2026 midwinter1563360923000.00%
2026 midwinter2543342885700.79%
2026 midwinter3613315928300.32%
2026 midwinter4403235638100.16%
2026 midwinter5375242617100.16%
2026 midwinter6362215577300.52%
2026 midwinter7291186477100.21%
2026 midwinter8254139393100.25%
2026 midwinter9211116327200.61%
2026 midwinter10164117281100.36%
2026 midwinter11159108267401.50%
2026 midwinter129557152000.00%
2026 midwinter139457151402.65%
2026 midwinter146144105000.00%
2026 midwinter155846104100.96%
2026 midwinter16282654000.00%
2026 midwinter17251237000.00%
2026 midwinter18231538000.00%
2026 midwinter19812202010.00%
2026 midwinter20191635102.86%
2026 midwinter2111920000.00%
2026 midwinter227714000.00%
2026 midwinter23549000.00%
2026 midwinter246393333.33%
2026 midwinter253363350.00%
2026 midwinter262021150.00%
2026 midwinter2701111100.00%
2025 midwinter0130195325000.00%
2025 midwinter1111175286000.00%
2025 midwinter2124139263000.00%
2025 midwinter3129146275000.00%
2025 midwinter4117103220000.00%
2025 midwinter56284146000.00%
2025 midwinter67174145000.00%
2025 midwinter79371164000.00%
2025 midwinter87856134000.00%
2025 midwinter97660136000.00%
2025 midwinter10373976101.32%
2025 midwinter115446100000.00%
2025 midwinter12393170000.00%
2025 midwinter13431962000.00%
2025 midwinter14362359101.69%
2025 midwinter15391554101.85%
2025 midwinter16251540000.00%
2025 midwinter1725934000.00%
2025 midwinter18201131000.00%
2025 midwinter1921627000.00%
2025 midwinter20171532000.00%
2025 midwinter21161026000.00%
2025 midwinter2211718000.00%
2025 midwinter2316420105.00%
2025 midwinter247411000.00%
2025 midwinter25144183116.67%
2025 midwinter263581112.50%
2025 midwinter27213000.00%
2025 midwinter28505000.00%
2025 midwinter29101000.00%
2025 midwinter30101000.00%

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, 202627Bull elk40440
2025 midwinterSep 26 - Oct 2, 202523 SouthBull elk10110

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 3010 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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