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Arizona elk hunt 3141

10. 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 100 hunt permit-tags on hunt 3141 in 2026, of which at most 10 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 4,518 applications named it, and 100 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 27.

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 midwinter0141125266000.00%
2026 midwinter1161141302200.66%
2026 midwinter2224182406300.74%
2026 midwinter3212219431701.62%
2026 midwinter4133133266200.75%
2026 midwinter5187160347200.58%
2026 midwinter6181211392601.53%
2026 midwinter7193161354601.69%
2026 midwinter8138153291802.75%
2026 midwinter9123139262803.05%
2026 midwinter10120104224301.34%
2026 midwinter11781031811005.52%
2026 midwinter127370143704.90%
2026 midwinter135873131302.29%
2026 midwinter144858106706.60%
2026 midwinter15405797949.28%
2026 midwinter162433578814.04%
2026 midwinter17222749112.04%
2026 midwinter18152742327.14%
2026 midwinter19182240000.00%
2026 midwinter2072229000.00%
2026 midwinter2162632000.00%
2026 midwinter2282028000.00%
2026 midwinter2341620000.00%
2026 midwinter24235000.00%
2026 midwinter255712000.00%
2026 midwinter2613444100.00%
2026 midwinter2710111100.00%
2025 midwinter0144142286301.05%
2025 midwinter1190191381300.79%
2025 midwinter2219215434601.38%
2025 midwinter3241182423801.89%
2025 midwinter4223179402501.24%
2025 midwinter5136126262501.91%
2025 midwinter61691232921003.42%
2025 midwinter7163155318902.83%
2025 midwinter8120134254301.18%
2025 midwinter9122135257401.56%
2025 midwinter109898196703.57%
2025 midwinter115273125604.80%
2025 midwinter126070130201.54%
2025 midwinter13414586303.49%
2025 midwinter14343367648.96%
2025 midwinter151834527713.46%
2025 midwinter16213859335.08%
2025 midwinter17112637112.70%
2025 midwinter18122032103.13%
2025 midwinter198614000.00%
2025 midwinter20111425000.00%
2025 midwinter21121931000.00%
2025 midwinter2261218000.00%
2025 midwinter23145000.00%
2025 midwinter243811000.00%
2025 midwinter251454480.00%
2025 midwinter260221150.00%

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, 202610Bull elk10010100
2025 midwinterSep 12 - Sep 25, 202510Bull elk10010100

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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