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Arizona pronghorn hunt 2016

10. 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 60 hunt permit-tags on hunt 2016 in 2026, of which at most 6 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 12,110 applications named it, and 60 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 midwinter08964741,370000.00%
2026 midwinter18284681,296200.15%
2026 midwinter27243811,105100.09%
2026 midwinter3580345925100.11%
2026 midwinter4367232599000.00%
2026 midwinter5342236578000.00%
2026 midwinter6400278678901.33%
2026 midwinter7370286656200.30%
2026 midwinter8368232600200.33%
2026 midwinter9288224512400.78%
2026 midwinter10297173470200.43%
2026 midwinter11231183414200.48%
2026 midwinter12259156415100.24%
2026 midwinter13190153343200.58%
2026 midwinter14154113267602.25%
2026 midwinter15156122278200.72%
2026 midwinter1612389212200.94%
2026 midwinter179376169000.00%
2026 midwinter189782179000.00%
2026 midwinter198868156100.64%
2026 midwinter208593178100.56%
2026 midwinter216671137100.73%
2026 midwinter227851129201.55%
2026 midwinter23493685000.00%
2026 midwinter24423375405.33%
2026 midwinter25411960000.00%
2026 midwinter26473683101.20%
2026 midwinter27333164000.00%
2026 midwinter2882028000.00%
2026 midwinter292217395512.82%
2026 midwinter305386675.00%
2026 midwinter321121150.00%
2025 midwinter0313869000.00%
2025 midwinter1322860000.00%
2025 midwinter2201030000.00%
2025 midwinter3161127000.00%
2025 midwinter4131225000.00%
2025 midwinter59312000.00%
2025 midwinter611415000.00%
2025 midwinter7167000.00%
2025 midwinter8639000.00%
2025 midwinter9527000.00%
2025 midwinter106713107.69%
2025 midwinter118210000.00%
2025 midwinter12459000.00%
2025 midwinter13235000.00%
2025 midwinter14134000.00%
2025 midwinter15123000.00%
2025 midwinter16404000.00%
2025 midwinter171121050.00%
2025 midwinter18101000.00%
2025 midwinter19202000.00%
2025 midwinter20404000.00%
2025 midwinter21202000.00%
2025 midwinter22101000.00%
2025 midwinter23257000.00%
2025 midwinter2410111100.00%

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, 202610Buck pronghorn60660
2025 midwinterSep 5 - Sep 14, 202512A and 12BBuck pronghorn313

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 2016 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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