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Arizona elk hunt 3150

27. 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 225 hunt permit-tags on hunt 3150 in 2026, of which at most 22 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 3,121 applications named it, and 225 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 23.

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 midwinter0103121224200.89%
2026 midwinter1137164301902.99%
2026 midwinter21811943751102.93%
2026 midwinter31462093552005.63%
2026 midwinter41251542792007.17%
2026 midwinter51131782912508.59%
2026 midwinter61291873162307.28%
2026 midwinter71001302301305.65%
2026 midwinter8951292241506.70%
2026 midwinter9719816918010.65%
2026 midwinter10448713115011.45%
2026 midwinter1134579113614.29%
2026 midwinter12172845191842.22%
2026 midwinter131115265519.23%
2026 midwinter14510154326.67%
2026 midwinter1541216000.00%
2026 midwinter1664102220.00%
2026 midwinter17336000.00%
2026 midwinter183361116.67%
2026 midwinter192576685.71%
2026 midwinter2021333100.00%
2026 midwinter2310111100.00%
2025 midwinter0134176310000.00%
2025 midwinter11732133861002.59%
2025 midwinter22002464461002.24%
2025 midwinter31912224131303.15%
2025 midwinter41792394182606.22%
2025 midwinter51311753061805.88%
2025 midwinter61031652682007.46%
2025 midwinter71161853012307.64%
2025 midwinter8781362141908.88%
2025 midwinter9711021731508.67%
2025 midwinter10578614315010.49%
2025 midwinter11293968211430.88%
2025 midwinter12192847151431.91%
2025 midwinter13416202210.00%
2025 midwinter1481321114.76%
2025 midwinter155712118.33%
2025 midwinter166511000.00%
2025 midwinter17123000.00%
2025 midwinter1875126650.00%
2025 midwinter1905555100.00%
2025 midwinter22011000.00%

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, 202627Bull elk22522225
2025 midwinterSep 12 - Sep 25, 202527Bull elk22522225

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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