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Arizona elk hunt 3106

6A. 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 325 hunt permit-tags on hunt 3106 in 2026, of which at most 32 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 2,502 applications named it, and 325 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 midwinter06978147302.04%
2026 midwinter11561813371504.45%
2026 midwinter22642595235009.56%
2026 midwinter324723047784017.61%
2026 midwinter415615130741013.36%
2026 midwinter514212626827010.07%
2026 midwinter677871641609.76%
2026 midwinter7556211714011.97%
2026 midwinter8223759171128.81%
2026 midwinter9212950242448.00%
2026 midwinter109112010650.00%
2026 midwinter1189178847.06%
2026 midwinter1290999100.00%
2026 midwinter1320222100.00%
2026 midwinter1430333100.00%
2026 midwinter1502222100.00%
2025 midwinter0303060203.33%
2025 midwinter1294978303.85%
2025 midwinter24258100202.00%
2025 midwinter3375289303.37%
2025 midwinter4374279708.86%
2025 midwinter52125465010.87%
2025 midwinter62136579015.79%
2025 midwinter7232952509.62%
2025 midwinter82011317022.58%
2025 midwinter9614204020.00%
2025 midwinter10813213214.29%
2025 midwinter1149136546.15%
2025 midwinter122572228.57%
2025 midwinter13257000.00%
2025 midwinter143251120.00%
2025 midwinter16022000.00%
2025 midwinter17022000.00%
2025 midwinter18134000.00%
2025 midwinter1910111100.00%
2025 midwinter200442250.00%

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 13 - Nov 19, 20266ABull elk32532325
2025 midwinterNov 7 - Nov 13, 202510Bull elk65665

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 3106 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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