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Arizona elk hunt 3103

Kachina Peaks Wilderness Hunt Area (Special Restrictions Apply - See Note 48). 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 5 hunt permit-tags on hunt 3103 in 2026, of which at most 1 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 72 applications named it, and 5 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 11.

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 midwinter0426000.00%
2026 midwinter1303000.00%
2026 midwinter281119000.00%
2026 midwinter3114152013.33%
2026 midwinter46391011.11%
2026 midwinter54481012.50%
2026 midwinter6246000.00%
2026 midwinter92131133.33%
2026 midwinter10011000.00%
2026 midwinter11022000.00%
2025 midwinter0252045000.00%
2025 midwinter1273158101.72%
2025 midwinter26345108201.85%
2025 midwinter3415798707.14%
2025 midwinter4603191505.49%
2025 midwinter54235778010.39%
2025 midwinter6352863406.35%
2025 midwinter7351550306.00%
2025 midwinter8212243306.98%
2025 midwinter991322000.00%
2025 midwinter106511109.09%
2025 midwinter1165113227.27%
2025 midwinter124265583.33%
2025 midwinter13213000.00%
2025 midwinter142461116.67%
2025 midwinter15022000.00%
2025 midwinter16011000.00%
2025 midwinter174264166.67%
2025 midwinter1801111100.00%

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 midwinterOct 2 - Oct 8, 2026Kachina Peaks Wilderness Hunt Area (Special Restrictions Apply - See Note 48)Bull elk515
2025 midwinterSep 26 - Oct 2, 202522 SouthBull elk50550

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 3103 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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