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Arizona elk hunt 3022

9. 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 3022 in 2026, of which at most 22 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 2,472 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 29.

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 midwinter0158154312200.64%
2026 midwinter12232314541302.86%
2026 midwinter22402554953707.47%
2026 midwinter316216232434010.49%
2026 midwinter41191382571907.39%
2026 midwinter51088319124012.57%
2026 midwinter6638815129019.21%
2026 midwinter7486711514012.17%
2026 midwinter826376312919.05%
2026 midwinter915173210931.25%
2026 midwinter101412266623.08%
2026 midwinter11179266523.08%
2026 midwinter122685262.50%
2026 midwinter1332555100.00%
2026 midwinter143475571.43%
2026 midwinter1501111100.00%
2026 midwinter161121150.00%
2026 midwinter210221150.00%
2026 midwinter2901111100.00%
2025 midwinter02082124201002.38%
2025 midwinter12602144742204.64%
2025 midwinter22392274662204.72%
2025 midwinter31731943673609.81%
2025 midwinter41241272512007.97%
2025 midwinter5919118238020.88%
2025 midwinter6626813015011.54%
2025 midwinter73834728011.11%
2025 midwinter8214263191630.16%
2025 midwinter9161430111136.67%
2025 midwinter10011112218.18%
2025 midwinter1158133223.08%
2025 midwinter1229118872.73%
2025 midwinter1311222100.00%
2025 midwinter1410111100.00%
2025 midwinter1601111100.00%
2025 midwinter1810111100.00%
2025 midwinter2101111100.00%

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, 20269Bull elk22522225
2025 midwinterNov 28 - Dec 4, 20259Bull elk22522225

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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