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Arizona elk hunt 3100

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 35 hunt permit-tags on hunt 3100 in 2026, of which at most 3 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 4,601 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 28.

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 midwinter0148105253000.00%
2026 midwinter1186120306200.65%
2026 midwinter2285158443100.23%
2026 midwinter3271182453000.00%
2026 midwinter4203128331100.30%
2026 midwinter5229125354401.13%
2026 midwinter6205153358100.28%
2026 midwinter7206123329401.22%
2026 midwinter8175109284200.70%
2026 midwinter9123100223100.45%
2026 midwinter1014989238401.68%
2026 midwinter1112877205200.98%
2026 midwinter1211070180000.00%
2026 midwinter137863141201.42%
2026 midwinter147643119100.84%
2026 midwinter15573188000.00%
2026 midwinter16421254101.85%
2026 midwinter17251843102.33%
2026 midwinter18141327000.00%
2026 midwinter19191231103.23%
2026 midwinter20161430000.00%
2026 midwinter21161531000.00%
2026 midwinter22161127000.00%
2026 midwinter2312820115.00%
2026 midwinter245491111.11%
2026 midwinter253693333.33%
2026 midwinter263361116.67%
2026 midwinter27134000.00%
2026 midwinter281451120.00%
2025 midwinter06844112000.00%
2025 midwinter112460184000.00%
2025 midwinter2156114270000.00%
2025 midwinter312185206100.49%
2025 midwinter412685211502.37%
2025 midwinter57154125100.80%
2025 midwinter66151112302.68%
2025 midwinter75946105403.81%
2025 midwinter8324678202.56%
2025 midwinter9273057000.00%
2025 midwinter10273158101.72%
2025 midwinter11172441102.44%
2025 midwinter12102232103.13%
2025 midwinter1371522000.00%
2025 midwinter14131124104.17%
2025 midwinter1551419105.26%
2025 midwinter161561016.67%
2025 midwinter173473242.86%
2025 midwinter180332266.67%
2025 midwinter19011000.00%
2025 midwinter20022000.00%
2025 midwinter21011000.00%
2025 midwinter22011000.00%
2025 midwinter2301111100.00%
2025 midwinter251121150.00%

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, 20261, 2B, and 2CBull elk35335
2025 midwinterSep 26 - Oct 2, 20253BBull elk30330

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 3100 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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