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Arizona elk hunt 3101

3B. 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 30 hunt permit-tags on hunt 3101 in 2026, of which at most 3 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 1,492 applications named it, and 30 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.

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 midwinter05647103000.00%
2026 midwinter19467161201.24%
2026 midwinter212484208200.96%
2026 midwinter311489203100.49%
2026 midwinter48272154201.30%
2026 midwinter55063113403.54%
2026 midwinter64564109000.00%
2026 midwinter7384886101.16%
2026 midwinter8383371101.41%
2026 midwinter9223658305.17%
2026 midwinter10164056101.79%
2026 midwinter11192645102.22%
2026 midwinter12171936308.33%
2026 midwinter1381321000.00%
2026 midwinter149918105.56%
2026 midwinter1561420105.00%
2026 midwinter1664101010.00%
2026 midwinter17145000.00%
2026 midwinter18011000.00%
2026 midwinter193142250.00%
2026 midwinter2001111100.00%
2026 midwinter210221150.00%
2026 midwinter220221150.00%
2026 midwinter23101000.00%
2026 midwinter24011000.00%
2026 midwinter261231133.33%
2025 midwinter03912000.00%
2025 midwinter1538000.00%
2025 midwinter210818000.00%
2025 midwinter3712192010.53%
2025 midwinter45914000.00%
2025 midwinter5314000.00%
2025 midwinter6011000.00%
2025 midwinter7213000.00%
2025 midwinter8101000.00%
2025 midwinter902221100.00%
2025 midwinter13011000.00%
2025 midwinter1401110100.00%

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, 20263BBull elk30330
2025 midwinterOct 3 - Oct 9, 2025Kachina Peaks Wilderness Hunt Area in Unit 7 EastBull elk515

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 3101 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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