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Arizona · Elk · Hunt 3089

Arizona elk hunt 3089

2A and 2B. 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 35 hunt permit-tags on hunt 3089 in 2026, of which at most 35 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 426 applications named it, and 35 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 15.

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 midwinter0212041307.32%
2026 midwinter1404888404.55%
2026 midwinter2374380202.50%
2026 midwinter3232851509.80%
2026 midwinter4181331000.00%
2026 midwinter5141428103.57%
2026 midwinter6141529206.90%
2026 midwinter71219317022.58%
2026 midwinter8512172011.76%
2026 midwinter96392022.22%
2026 midwinter1094132215.38%
2026 midwinter112352240.00%
2026 midwinter1311222100.00%
2026 midwinter1501111100.00%
2025 midwinter0405898000.00%
2025 midwinter1414990202.22%
2025 midwinter2284977303.90%
2025 midwinter3143448408.33%
2025 midwinter4243054407.41%
2025 midwinter51430446013.64%
2025 midwinter61221335015.15%
2025 midwinter710818000.00%
2025 midwinter86511109.09%
2025 midwinter94481012.50%
2025 midwinter103361116.67%
2025 midwinter111453360.00%
2025 midwinter1211222100.00%
2025 midwinter1310111100.00%
2025 midwinter14033000.00%
2025 midwinter15011000.00%

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 4, 20262A and 2BAny elk353535
2025 midwinterSep 26 - Oct 5, 20252A and 2BAny elk353535

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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