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Arizona pronghorn hunt 2004

3A. 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 4 hunt permit-tags on hunt 2004 in 2026, of which at most 1 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 1,538 applications named it, and 4 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 30.

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 midwinter09696192000.00%
2026 midwinter17694170000.00%
2026 midwinter25666122000.00%
2026 midwinter35769126000.00%
2026 midwinter44555100000.00%
2026 midwinter5353772000.00%
2026 midwinter6544094000.00%
2026 midwinter7484290000.00%
2026 midwinter8382260000.00%
2026 midwinter9342357000.00%
2026 midwinter10222850102.00%
2026 midwinter11242650000.00%
2026 midwinter12202545000.00%
2026 midwinter13201535000.00%
2026 midwinter14201333000.00%
2026 midwinter15121527000.00%
2026 midwinter1681826000.00%
2026 midwinter17111425000.00%
2026 midwinter18121325104.00%
2026 midwinter19141226000.00%
2026 midwinter2031114000.00%
2026 midwinter2114822000.00%
2026 midwinter226511000.00%
2026 midwinter23369000.00%
2026 midwinter2461016000.00%
2026 midwinter25628000.00%
2026 midwinter269514000.00%
2026 midwinter275161016.67%
2026 midwinter28325000.00%
2026 midwinter29437000.00%
2026 midwinter3001111100.00%
2025 midwinter011882200000.00%
2025 midwinter110475179000.00%
2025 midwinter28278160000.00%
2025 midwinter36960129000.00%
2025 midwinter44369112100.89%
2025 midwinter5454388000.00%
2025 midwinter6453479000.00%
2025 midwinter7323668000.00%
2025 midwinter8283967101.49%
2025 midwinter9243054000.00%
2025 midwinter10293160000.00%
2025 midwinter11183553101.89%
2025 midwinter12161834000.00%
2025 midwinter13181937000.00%
2025 midwinter14181836000.00%
2025 midwinter15131629000.00%
2025 midwinter16141529000.00%
2025 midwinter1713821000.00%
2025 midwinter1810919000.00%
2025 midwinter1911718000.00%
2025 midwinter2013619000.00%
2025 midwinter2191120000.00%
2025 midwinter226511000.00%
2025 midwinter23426000.00%
2025 midwinter247512000.00%
2025 midwinter258210000.00%
2025 midwinter26268000.00%
2025 midwinter27314000.00%
2025 midwinter28123000.00%
2025 midwinter292021150.00%

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 midwinterOct 2 - Oct 11, 20263ABuck pronghorn414
2025 midwinterOct 3 - Oct 12, 20253ABuck pronghorn515

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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