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Arizona pronghorn hunt 2012

6B South. 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 1 hunt permit-tag on hunt 2012 in 2026, of which at most 0 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 258 applications named it, and 1 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 31.

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 midwinter0152035000.00%
2026 midwinter1101929000.00%
2026 midwinter2162238000.00%
2026 midwinter3151429000.00%
2026 midwinter45813000.00%
2026 midwinter5437000.00%
2026 midwinter66511000.00%
2026 midwinter7437000.00%
2026 midwinter8101121000.00%
2026 midwinter951015000.00%
2026 midwinter10437000.00%
2026 midwinter11224000.00%
2026 midwinter12224000.00%
2026 midwinter13314000.00%
2026 midwinter14224000.00%
2026 midwinter15044000.00%
2026 midwinter16224000.00%
2026 midwinter17202000.00%
2026 midwinter18213000.00%
2026 midwinter19101000.00%
2026 midwinter20325000.00%
2026 midwinter21202000.00%
2026 midwinter22202000.00%
2026 midwinter25011000.00%
2026 midwinter272021050.00%
2026 midwinter28202000.00%
2026 midwinter29101000.00%
2026 midwinter31011000.00%
2025 midwinter0193655000.00%
2025 midwinter1212849000.00%
2025 midwinter2151530000.00%
2025 midwinter314519000.00%
2025 midwinter412921000.00%
2025 midwinter58816000.00%
2025 midwinter6189000.00%
2025 midwinter710616000.00%
2025 midwinter891120000.00%
2025 midwinter9437000.00%
2025 midwinter10358000.00%
2025 midwinter11415000.00%
2025 midwinter12246000.00%
2025 midwinter13437000.00%
2025 midwinter141451020.00%
2025 midwinter153710000.00%
2025 midwinter16303000.00%
2025 midwinter17112000.00%
2025 midwinter18202000.00%
2025 midwinter19628000.00%
2025 midwinter20314000.00%
2025 midwinter21112000.00%
2025 midwinter22011000.00%
2025 midwinter23101000.00%
2025 midwinter25101000.00%
2025 midwinter26101000.00%
2025 midwinter27202000.00%
2025 midwinter28101000.00%
2025 midwinter30011000.00%

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. This hunt issued no permits at all in the bonus pass in any published cycle, which is ordinary: the pass covers 20 per cent of permits and only applications holding at least one point.

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, 20266B SouthBuck pronghorn101
2025 midwinterSep 5 - Sep 14, 20256B SouthBuck pronghorn101

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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