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Arizona pronghorn hunt 2022

18B. 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 3 hunt permit-tags on hunt 2022 in 2026, of which at most 1 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 571 applications named it, and 3 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 midwinter0293867000.00%
2026 midwinter1343468000.00%
2026 midwinter2232750000.00%
2026 midwinter3163046000.00%
2026 midwinter4121628000.00%
2026 midwinter5171330000.00%
2026 midwinter6141327000.00%
2026 midwinter7141529000.00%
2026 midwinter8141226000.00%
2026 midwinter991524000.00%
2026 midwinter109716000.00%
2026 midwinter11111122000.00%
2026 midwinter1281018000.00%
2026 midwinter1311516000.00%
2026 midwinter1491423000.00%
2026 midwinter156410000.00%
2026 midwinter1611617105.88%
2026 midwinter17358000.00%
2026 midwinter18145000.00%
2026 midwinter195381012.50%
2026 midwinter20022000.00%
2026 midwinter21145000.00%
2026 midwinter225611000.00%
2026 midwinter23134000.00%
2026 midwinter24202000.00%
2026 midwinter25224000.00%
2026 midwinter26101000.00%
2026 midwinter27011000.00%
2026 midwinter28022000.00%
2026 midwinter2910111100.00%
2025 midwinter0226185411000.00%
2025 midwinter1243185428100.23%
2025 midwinter2185126311000.00%
2025 midwinter3132120252100.40%
2025 midwinter4144100244000.00%
2025 midwinter510357160100.63%
2025 midwinter68470154000.00%
2025 midwinter78588173301.73%
2025 midwinter88765152301.97%
2025 midwinter97972151201.32%
2025 midwinter106754121100.83%
2025 midwinter11424890000.00%
2025 midwinter126047107100.93%
2025 midwinter13503080101.25%
2025 midwinter14413172000.00%
2025 midwinter15322153101.89%
2025 midwinter16232245000.00%
2025 midwinter17161733000.00%
2025 midwinter18131225000.00%
2025 midwinter1991827000.00%
2025 midwinter20211940000.00%
2025 midwinter2119726000.00%
2025 midwinter22121325000.00%
2025 midwinter2391019000.00%
2025 midwinter249716000.00%
2025 midwinter25111627103.70%
2025 midwinter266612000.00%
2025 midwinter2711718000.00%
2025 midwinter28549000.00%
2025 midwinter2922444100.00%

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 11 - Sep 17, 202618BBuck pronghorn313
2025 midwinterSep 5 - Sep 11, 2025Hwy 89A that is east of Fain Rd, north of AZ Hwy 69/169,Buck pronghorn20220

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 2022 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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