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Arizona · Elk · Hunt 3190

Arizona elk hunt 3190

17A, 17B, 18B, 19B, 20A, and 20C. 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 35 hunt permit-tags on hunt 3190 in 2026, of which at most 3 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 381 applications named it, and 35 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 midwinter0152035205.71%
2026 midwinter1263056000.00%
2026 midwinter2333568101.47%
2026 midwinter3202747306.38%
2026 midwinter41010204020.00%
2026 midwinter5121123208.70%
2026 midwinter61316293010.34%
2026 midwinter7919283010.71%
2026 midwinter84913107.69%
2026 midwinter91781012.50%
2026 midwinter103692022.22%
2026 midwinter1165114136.36%
2026 midwinter125497577.78%
2026 midwinter13011000.00%
2026 midwinter143581012.50%
2026 midwinter15123000.00%
2026 midwinter16336000.00%
2026 midwinter17112000.00%
2026 midwinter18022000.00%
2026 midwinter19101000.00%
2026 midwinter21011000.00%
2026 midwinter2310111100.00%
2025 midwinter0173047204.26%
2025 midwinter1242145000.00%
2025 midwinter23127587012.07%
2025 midwinter3222951000.00%
2025 midwinter41416305016.67%
2025 midwinter51915346017.65%
2025 midwinter641216000.00%
2025 midwinter74711000.00%
2025 midwinter82571014.29%
2025 midwinter9211132015.38%
2025 midwinter10527000.00%
2025 midwinter1164105350.00%
2025 midwinter123363350.00%
2025 midwinter13077000.00%
2025 midwinter14134000.00%
2025 midwinter153471014.29%
2025 midwinter16134000.00%
2025 midwinter17011000.00%
2025 midwinter20101000.00%
2025 midwinter21101000.00%
2025 midwinter2310111100.00%

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 - Oct 1, 202617A, 17B, 18B, 19B, 20A, and 20CBull elk35335
2025 midwinterSep 12 - Oct 2, 202517A, 17B, 18B, 19B, 20A and 20CBull elk35335

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 3190 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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