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Arizona pronghorn hunt 2019

13B. 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 20 hunt permit-tags on hunt 2019 in 2026, of which at most 2 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 961 applications named it, and 20 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 midwinter03376109000.00%
2026 midwinter1286492000.00%
2026 midwinter2314879000.00%
2026 midwinter3364884000.00%
2026 midwinter4162642102.38%
2026 midwinter5284169000.00%
2026 midwinter6294372608.33%
2026 midwinter7273461101.64%
2026 midwinter8212344204.55%
2026 midwinter972835000.00%
2026 midwinter10172239000.00%
2026 midwinter1182533000.00%
2026 midwinter12161228000.00%
2026 midwinter1381018000.00%
2026 midwinter1451722104.55%
2026 midwinter15101121209.52%
2026 midwinter166814000.00%
2026 midwinter174913000.00%
2026 midwinter189514000.00%
2026 midwinter197815106.67%
2026 midwinter2051217105.88%
2026 midwinter215611000.00%
2026 midwinter224261016.67%
2026 midwinter23055000.00%
2026 midwinter242352240.00%
2026 midwinter25156000.00%
2026 midwinter260331133.33%
2026 midwinter27213000.00%
2026 midwinter2810111100.00%
2025 midwinter0283664000.00%
2025 midwinter1221941000.00%
2025 midwinter2131730000.00%
2025 midwinter3241438000.00%
2025 midwinter4171027000.00%
2025 midwinter581220000.00%
2025 midwinter613518000.00%
2025 midwinter79514000.00%
2025 midwinter88614000.00%
2025 midwinter97411000.00%
2025 midwinter108513000.00%
2025 midwinter116511000.00%
2025 midwinter126410000.00%
2025 midwinter13336000.00%
2025 midwinter14437000.00%
2025 midwinter15235000.00%
2025 midwinter16224000.00%
2025 midwinter17134000.00%
2025 midwinter18235000.00%
2025 midwinter197411000.00%
2025 midwinter20112000.00%
2025 midwinter21224000.00%
2025 midwinter222241025.00%
2025 midwinter238210000.00%
2025 midwinter24325000.00%
2025 midwinter27314000.00%
2025 midwinter282021150.00%

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, 202613BBuck pronghorn20220
2025 midwinterSep 5 - Sep 14, 202517ABuck pronghorn212

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 2019 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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