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Arizona elk hunt 3140

9. 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 90 hunt permit-tags on hunt 3140 in 2026, of which at most 9 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 6,633 applications named it, and 90 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 midwinter0250139389100.26%
2026 midwinter1297118415000.00%
2026 midwinter2406171577200.35%
2026 midwinter3422181603200.33%
2026 midwinter4279148427902.11%
2026 midwinter5362186548300.55%
2026 midwinter6412165577901.56%
2026 midwinter72941674611403.04%
2026 midwinter82891374261202.82%
2026 midwinter9272134406100.25%
2026 midwinter10197112309100.32%
2026 midwinter11179101280702.50%
2026 midwinter1211685201100.50%
2026 midwinter1311760177402.26%
2026 midwinter148853141201.42%
2026 midwinter158350133000.00%
2026 midwinter166544109201.83%
2026 midwinter17422870202.86%
2026 midwinter183420546611.11%
2026 midwinter19371956335.36%
2026 midwinter20431760335.00%
2026 midwinter21431962000.00%
2026 midwinter22301343112.33%
2026 midwinter23261743000.00%
2026 midwinter2413619115.26%
2026 midwinter2513821000.00%
2026 midwinter2612214000.00%
2026 midwinter275492222.22%
2026 midwinter281232266.67%
2025 midwinter0263140403100.25%
2025 midwinter1309145454100.22%
2025 midwinter2434175609300.49%
2025 midwinter3402180582100.17%
2025 midwinter4405176581300.52%
2025 midwinter52671354021102.74%
2025 midwinter6257153410501.22%
2025 midwinter72981434411202.72%
2025 midwinter8274152426501.17%
2025 midwinter9215113328702.13%
2025 midwinter10173832561003.91%
2025 midwinter1113180211301.42%
2025 midwinter1211757174402.30%
2025 midwinter136354117201.71%
2025 midwinter147556131201.53%
2025 midwinter15573491101.10%
2025 midwinter16422466000.00%
2025 midwinter174220628812.90%
2025 midwinter18341650112.00%
2025 midwinter19341751335.88%
2025 midwinter20322254000.00%
2025 midwinter21311748000.00%
2025 midwinter22261238112.63%
2025 midwinter2315520000.00%
2025 midwinter24161228000.00%
2025 midwinter258513117.69%
2025 midwinter264263350.00%
2025 midwinter2710111100.00%

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, 20269Bull elk90990
2025 midwinterSep 12 - Sep 25, 20259Bull elk90990

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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