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Arizona elk hunt 3132

5B North. 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 168 hunt permit-tags on hunt 3132 in 2026, of which at most 16 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 1,927 applications named it, and 168 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 20.

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 midwinter05779136201.47%
2026 midwinter17579154301.95%
2026 midwinter21581352932107.17%
2026 midwinter3101148249702.81%
2026 midwinter4941212151607.44%
2026 midwinter5931312242209.82%
2026 midwinter66610617222012.79%
2026 midwinter7609815819012.03%
2026 midwinter84264106605.66%
2026 midwinter938569413013.83%
2026 midwinter10152237121032.43%
2026 midwinter11152540111127.50%
2026 midwinter12117184322.22%
2026 midwinter135381112.50%
2026 midwinter14112000.00%
2026 midwinter15325000.00%
2026 midwinter161231033.33%
2026 midwinter171675571.43%
2026 midwinter181231133.33%
2026 midwinter1911222100.00%
2026 midwinter20011000.00%
2025 midwinter04772119000.00%
2025 midwinter181106187301.60%
2025 midwinter21591933521604.55%
2025 midwinter31731813541203.39%
2025 midwinter412418731133010.61%
2025 midwinter5791352141908.88%
2025 midwinter676971731106.36%
2025 midwinter759681271209.45%
2025 midwinter8586312113010.74%
2025 midwinter927578412014.29%
2025 midwinter10244670121117.14%
2025 midwinter11141529101034.48%
2025 midwinter1277142114.29%
2025 midwinter136713117.69%
2025 midwinter146410000.00%
2025 midwinter15134000.00%
2025 midwinter164484450.00%
2025 midwinter172353360.00%
2025 midwinter20022000.00%

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 11 - Sep 24, 20265B NorthBull elk16816168
2025 midwinterSep 12 - Sep 25, 20255B NorthBull elk16816168

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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