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Arizona pronghorn hunt 2018

13A. 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 15 hunt permit-tags on hunt 2018 in 2026, of which at most 1 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 1,126 applications named it, and 15 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 28.

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 midwinter07460134000.00%
2026 midwinter16947116100.86%
2026 midwinter25962121100.83%
2026 midwinter3474188101.14%
2026 midwinter4232548000.00%
2026 midwinter5413374000.00%
2026 midwinter6383371000.00%
2026 midwinter7323971000.00%
2026 midwinter8202444000.00%
2026 midwinter9271138205.26%
2026 midwinter10123244000.00%
2026 midwinter11251439102.56%
2026 midwinter12132538000.00%
2026 midwinter13131831206.45%
2026 midwinter1410616106.25%
2026 midwinter15161026000.00%
2026 midwinter161512273011.11%
2026 midwinter1791120000.00%
2026 midwinter187916000.00%
2026 midwinter1941115000.00%
2026 midwinter209817000.00%
2026 midwinter21246000.00%
2026 midwinter22246000.00%
2026 midwinter23516000.00%
2026 midwinter24314000.00%
2026 midwinter252352240.00%
2026 midwinter26112000.00%
2026 midwinter271121150.00%
2026 midwinter28011000.00%
2025 midwinter06092152000.00%
2025 midwinter15578133100.75%
2025 midwinter26459123100.81%
2025 midwinter35965124000.00%
2025 midwinter44462106201.89%
2025 midwinter5254368101.47%
2025 midwinter6193958101.72%
2025 midwinter7343266101.52%
2025 midwinter8132942000.00%
2025 midwinter9174057000.00%
2025 midwinter10242145204.44%
2025 midwinter11111930000.00%
2025 midwinter12161935000.00%
2025 midwinter1316824208.33%
2025 midwinter14101424104.17%
2025 midwinter1571017000.00%
2025 midwinter16512172011.76%
2025 midwinter175510000.00%
2025 midwinter1810818000.00%
2025 midwinter1981018000.00%
2025 midwinter2051116000.00%
2025 midwinter21134000.00%
2025 midwinter22033000.00%
2025 midwinter23358000.00%
2025 midwinter24167000.00%
2025 midwinter251673142.86%
2025 midwinter263252240.00%
2025 midwinter2701111100.00%

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, 202613ABuck pronghorn15115
2025 midwinterSep 5 - Sep 14, 202513BBuck pronghorn20220

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 2018 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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