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Arizona pronghorn hunt 2008

5A. 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 5 hunt permit-tags on hunt 2008 in 2026, of which at most 1 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 3,893 applications named it, and 5 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 36.

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 midwinter0222192414000.00%
2026 midwinter1177175352000.00%
2026 midwinter2156132288000.00%
2026 midwinter3118122240000.00%
2026 midwinter48565150000.00%
2026 midwinter57577152000.00%
2026 midwinter6106107213100.47%
2026 midwinter77786163100.61%
2026 midwinter858100158000.00%
2026 midwinter96961130000.00%
2026 midwinter107880158000.00%
2026 midwinter115052102000.00%
2026 midwinter126151112000.00%
2026 midwinter136361124000.00%
2026 midwinter146350113000.00%
2026 midwinter155959118000.00%
2026 midwinter165149100000.00%
2026 midwinter17474390000.00%
2026 midwinter18522577000.00%
2026 midwinter19412869000.00%
2026 midwinter20404282000.00%
2026 midwinter21282755203.64%
2026 midwinter22302656000.00%
2026 midwinter23272754000.00%
2026 midwinter24342054000.00%
2026 midwinter25382260000.00%
2026 midwinter26332255000.00%
2026 midwinter27231538000.00%
2026 midwinter2814721000.00%
2026 midwinter29241034000.00%
2026 midwinter30151530000.00%
2026 midwinter3110717000.00%
2026 midwinter326410000.00%
2026 midwinter35112000.00%
2026 midwinter361121150.00%
2025 midwinter0186222408000.00%
2025 midwinter1173123296000.00%
2025 midwinter2116138254000.00%
2025 midwinter310592197000.00%
2025 midwinter476115191000.00%
2025 midwinter56355118000.00%
2025 midwinter67452126000.00%
2025 midwinter75560115000.00%
2025 midwinter86375138000.00%
2025 midwinter94869117000.00%
2025 midwinter10435699101.01%
2025 midwinter115962121000.00%
2025 midwinter12364884000.00%
2025 midwinter13464793000.00%
2025 midwinter144956105000.00%
2025 midwinter15404484000.00%
2025 midwinter16453479000.00%
2025 midwinter17323870000.00%
2025 midwinter18293362000.00%
2025 midwinter19242852000.00%
2025 midwinter20213051000.00%
2025 midwinter21222547000.00%
2025 midwinter22152641000.00%
2025 midwinter23252449000.00%
2025 midwinter24252550102.00%
2025 midwinter25242347000.00%
2025 midwinter26181331000.00%
2025 midwinter27101121104.76%
2025 midwinter28111122000.00%
2025 midwinter2916925000.00%
2025 midwinter3012517000.00%
2025 midwinter319312108.33%
2025 midwinter3210111100.00%

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, 20265ABuck pronghorn515
2025 midwinterSep 5 - Sep 14, 20255ABuck 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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