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Arizona pronghorn hunt 2020

17A. 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 2 hunt permit-tags on hunt 2020 in 2026, of which at most 1 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 468 applications named it, and 2 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 midwinter0593796000.00%
2026 midwinter1302353000.00%
2026 midwinter2222244000.00%
2026 midwinter3191635000.00%
2026 midwinter4161026000.00%
2026 midwinter510919000.00%
2026 midwinter6181028000.00%
2026 midwinter711819000.00%
2026 midwinter811516000.00%
2026 midwinter911617000.00%
2026 midwinter107411000.00%
2026 midwinter11325000.00%
2026 midwinter12639000.00%
2026 midwinter136915000.00%
2026 midwinter146410000.00%
2026 midwinter15213000.00%
2026 midwinter16246000.00%
2026 midwinter17325000.00%
2026 midwinter18347000.00%
2026 midwinter19202000.00%
2026 midwinter207310000.00%
2026 midwinter21123000.00%
2026 midwinter22415000.00%
2026 midwinter233031033.33%
2026 midwinter24538000.00%
2026 midwinter25314000.00%
2026 midwinter26022000.00%
2026 midwinter27112000.00%
2026 midwinter28303000.00%
2026 midwinter291121150.00%
2025 midwinter08866154000.00%
2025 midwinter1404989000.00%
2025 midwinter2374885000.00%
2025 midwinter35556111000.00%
2025 midwinter4382967000.00%
2025 midwinter5252146000.00%
2025 midwinter6272047102.13%
2025 midwinter7303363000.00%
2025 midwinter8272047000.00%
2025 midwinter9251540000.00%
2025 midwinter10262147000.00%
2025 midwinter11101626000.00%
2025 midwinter12141125000.00%
2025 midwinter1311920000.00%
2025 midwinter1471017105.88%
2025 midwinter1511920000.00%
2025 midwinter1681321000.00%
2025 midwinter177411000.00%
2025 midwinter1810818000.00%
2025 midwinter194812000.00%
2025 midwinter2010515000.00%
2025 midwinter21549000.00%
2025 midwinter229312000.00%
2025 midwinter239211000.00%
2025 midwinter246713000.00%
2025 midwinter25123000.00%
2025 midwinter265712108.33%
2025 midwinter27303000.00%
2025 midwinter28224000.00%
2025 midwinter29112000.00%
2025 midwinter302131133.33%

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, 202617ABuck pronghorn212
2025 midwinterSep 12 - Sep 18, 202518ABuck pronghorn414

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 2020 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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