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Arizona elk hunt 3011

1, 2B, and 2C. 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 225 hunt permit-tags on hunt 3011 in 2026, of which at most 22 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 12,260 applications named it, and 225 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.

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 midwinter08255321,357600.44%
2026 midwinter11,0206771,697900.53%
2026 midwinter21,1407451,8852201.17%
2026 midwinter39836871,6701300.78%
2026 midwinter47404841,2242702.21%
2026 midwinter55914471,0382502.41%
2026 midwinter64874169032502.77%
2026 midwinter73823507321401.91%
2026 midwinter82752785531001.81%
2026 midwinter9174213387501.29%
2026 midwinter101171252421104.55%
2026 midwinter1178126204602.94%
2026 midwinter126690156503.21%
2026 midwinter13374481121114.81%
2026 midwinter141425399923.08%
2026 midwinter151421359925.71%
2026 midwinter1691120115.00%
2026 midwinter17911202110.00%
2026 midwinter180221150.00%
2026 midwinter1953888100.00%
2026 midwinter2001111100.00%
2026 midwinter2101111100.00%
2026 midwinter231121150.00%
2026 midwinter261232266.67%
2025 midwinter05666281,194600.50%
2025 midwinter16836701,353300.22%
2025 midwinter27877361,5231901.25%
2025 midwinter37346021,3362201.65%
2025 midwinter45704801,0502402.29%
2025 midwinter53473707172403.35%
2025 midwinter63003606602003.03%
2025 midwinter72682955632304.09%
2025 midwinter81622524141904.59%
2025 midwinter9107147254401.57%
2025 midwinter1058120178804.49%
2025 midwinter116293155201.29%
2025 midwinter123865103222221.36%
2025 midwinter13722298527.59%
2025 midwinter1492130226.67%
2025 midwinter15618243312.50%
2025 midwinter165712000.00%
2025 midwinter17310132215.38%
2025 midwinter18112000.00%
2025 midwinter1922444100.00%
2025 midwinter2023555100.00%
2025 midwinter2110111100.00%
2025 midwinter2210111100.00%

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 midwinterNov 27 - Dec 3, 20261, 2B, and 2CBull elk22522225
2025 midwinterNov 28 - Dec 4, 20251, 2B and 2CBull elk22522225

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 3011 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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