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Arizona pronghorn hunt 2014

8. 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 2014 in 2026, of which at most 1 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 1,116 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 29.

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 midwinter083100183000.00%
2026 midwinter15198149000.00%
2026 midwinter24666112000.00%
2026 midwinter3444892000.00%
2026 midwinter4233255000.00%
2026 midwinter5291746000.00%
2026 midwinter6143347000.00%
2026 midwinter7353671000.00%
2026 midwinter8162642000.00%
2026 midwinter991928000.00%
2026 midwinter10162743000.00%
2026 midwinter11131326000.00%
2026 midwinter12102232000.00%
2026 midwinter13112031103.23%
2026 midwinter14101323104.35%
2026 midwinter156713000.00%
2026 midwinter1681119000.00%
2026 midwinter1712416000.00%
2026 midwinter186511000.00%
2026 midwinter196915000.00%
2026 midwinter204610000.00%
2026 midwinter21459000.00%
2026 midwinter22235000.00%
2026 midwinter23358000.00%
2026 midwinter24156000.00%
2026 midwinter25336000.00%
2026 midwinter26145000.00%
2026 midwinter27167000.00%
2026 midwinter28123000.00%
2026 midwinter292131133.33%
2025 midwinter0167246413000.00%
2025 midwinter1148224372000.00%
2025 midwinter2173213386000.00%
2025 midwinter3125183308000.00%
2025 midwinter4106167273000.00%
2025 midwinter583124207100.48%
2025 midwinter672111183000.00%
2025 midwinter786109195301.54%
2025 midwinter889105194100.52%
2025 midwinter986118204301.47%
2025 midwinter105874132403.03%
2025 midwinter117376149000.00%
2025 midwinter125460114000.00%
2025 midwinter133965104000.00%
2025 midwinter144858106000.00%
2025 midwinter15494594101.06%
2025 midwinter16234669000.00%
2025 midwinter17334679101.27%
2025 midwinter18233962101.61%
2025 midwinter19334780000.00%
2025 midwinter20222749102.04%
2025 midwinter21203252101.92%
2025 midwinter22172845000.00%
2025 midwinter23171936205.56%
2025 midwinter24181331000.00%
2025 midwinter25121830103.33%
2025 midwinter2692635000.00%
2025 midwinter2771522000.00%
2025 midwinter283710000.00%
2025 midwinter2984122216.67%
2025 midwinter3130333100.00%

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, 20268Buck pronghorn313
2025 midwinterOct 3 - Oct 12, 20259Buck pronghorn25225

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 2014 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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