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Arizona pronghorn hunt 2015

9. 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 25 hunt permit-tags on hunt 2015 in 2026, of which at most 2 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 4,368 applications named it, and 25 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.

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 midwinter0183205388000.00%
2026 midwinter1151229380100.26%
2026 midwinter2139238377000.00%
2026 midwinter3111196307000.00%
2026 midwinter494121215000.00%
2026 midwinter58199180000.00%
2026 midwinter6116146262000.00%
2026 midwinter79697193000.00%
2026 midwinter896113209200.96%
2026 midwinter910194195100.51%
2026 midwinter1087113200100.50%
2026 midwinter116394157301.91%
2026 midwinter128987176201.14%
2026 midwinter136075135000.00%
2026 midwinter144061101100.99%
2026 midwinter155971130000.00%
2026 midwinter165064114000.00%
2026 midwinter17345084000.00%
2026 midwinter18385290202.22%
2026 midwinter19312859101.69%
2026 midwinter20333568101.47%
2026 midwinter21213051101.96%
2026 midwinter22213960000.00%
2026 midwinter23242246306.52%
2026 midwinter24131528000.00%
2026 midwinter25173047102.13%
2026 midwinter26172441000.00%
2026 midwinter27141933000.00%
2026 midwinter2891221000.00%
2026 midwinter296814000.00%
2026 midwinter3040444100.00%
2026 midwinter311121150.00%
2026 midwinter32011000.00%
2025 midwinter09354991,434100.07%
2025 midwinter17784471,225200.16%
2025 midwinter26494431,092600.55%
2025 midwinter3572339911100.11%
2025 midwinter4479326805200.25%
2025 midwinter5367263630000.00%
2025 midwinter6297240537000.00%
2025 midwinter7392227619500.81%
2025 midwinter8306243549200.36%
2025 midwinter9329203532100.19%
2025 midwinter10275189464200.43%
2025 midwinter11271177448200.45%
2025 midwinter12192160352300.85%
2025 midwinter13176133309000.00%
2025 midwinter14158125283401.41%
2025 midwinter1512983212200.94%
2025 midwinter1611577192100.52%
2025 midwinter1710075175000.00%
2025 midwinter1810772179100.56%
2025 midwinter199076166000.00%
2025 midwinter207465139100.72%
2025 midwinter216666132302.27%
2025 midwinter226149110201.82%
2025 midwinter23384583101.20%
2025 midwinter24393170202.86%
2025 midwinter25583896101.04%
2025 midwinter26343872000.00%
2025 midwinter27102030000.00%
2025 midwinter28251742204.76%
2025 midwinter29107178847.06%
2025 midwinter3002222100.00%
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 midwinterOct 2 - Oct 11, 20269Buck pronghorn25225
2025 midwinterSep 5 - Sep 14, 202510Buck pronghorn60660

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 2015 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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