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Arizona pronghorn hunt 2005

3C. 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 3 hunt permit-tags on hunt 2005 in 2026, of which at most 1 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 1,375 applications named it, and 3 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 32.

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 midwinter07375148000.00%
2026 midwinter15066116000.00%
2026 midwinter25567122000.00%
2026 midwinter34957106000.00%
2026 midwinter4374077000.00%
2026 midwinter5223658000.00%
2026 midwinter6303464000.00%
2026 midwinter7355186000.00%
2026 midwinter8312758000.00%
2026 midwinter9312455101.82%
2026 midwinter10192544000.00%
2026 midwinter11213051000.00%
2026 midwinter12312960000.00%
2026 midwinter1317926000.00%
2026 midwinter14131932000.00%
2026 midwinter15202040000.00%
2026 midwinter16171532000.00%
2026 midwinter1791221000.00%
2026 midwinter18101222000.00%
2026 midwinter1915924104.17%
2026 midwinter2013821000.00%
2026 midwinter2191120000.00%
2026 midwinter22426000.00%
2026 midwinter2312416000.00%
2026 midwinter246612000.00%
2026 midwinter2510515000.00%
2026 midwinter265914000.00%
2026 midwinter27729000.00%
2026 midwinter28426000.00%
2026 midwinter29257000.00%
2026 midwinter30415000.00%
2026 midwinter3110111100.00%
2026 midwinter32011000.00%
2025 midwinter05880138000.00%
2025 midwinter15194145000.00%
2025 midwinter25058108100.93%
2025 midwinter3444589101.12%
2025 midwinter4244064000.00%
2025 midwinter5232144000.00%
2025 midwinter6234568000.00%
2025 midwinter7252853000.00%
2025 midwinter8322254000.00%
2025 midwinter9302353000.00%
2025 midwinter10252045000.00%
2025 midwinter11282250000.00%
2025 midwinter12232043000.00%
2025 midwinter13291948000.00%
2025 midwinter14161430000.00%
2025 midwinter15161127000.00%
2025 midwinter1612921000.00%
2025 midwinter1761319000.00%
2025 midwinter18111021000.00%
2025 midwinter199817000.00%
2025 midwinter2061117000.00%
2025 midwinter219514000.00%
2025 midwinter226410000.00%
2025 midwinter237916000.00%
2025 midwinter24549000.00%
2025 midwinter25527000.00%
2025 midwinter2610717000.00%
2025 midwinter27325000.00%
2025 midwinter28448000.00%
2025 midwinter29123000.00%
2025 midwinter3010111100.00%

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 4 - Sep 13, 20263CBuck pronghorn313
2025 midwinterSep 5 - Sep 14, 20253CBuck pronghorn313

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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