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Arizona · Pronghorn · Hunt 2023

Arizona pronghorn hunt 2023

19A (north of AZ Hwy 89A and that portion south of AZ Hwy 89A that is east of Fain Rd, north of AZ Hwy 69/169, and west of FR 151/643). 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 2023 in 2026, of which at most 2 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 3,318 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 30.

Arizona's own two reports disagree about this hunt. Summing the permits the Bonus Point Report gives at each level does not reproduce the total its own Draw Report states for the same hunt in 2025 midwinter. Both published figures are shown — the level rows below come from the Bonus Point Report, the authorized and issued totals above from the Draw Report. We have not resolved the difference in either direction, because the department has not.

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 midwinter0229190419000.00%
2026 midwinter1194171365000.00%
2026 midwinter2162159321000.00%
2026 midwinter3146129275200.73%
2026 midwinter49289181000.00%
2026 midwinter510475179100.56%
2026 midwinter610285187000.00%
2026 midwinter78590175000.00%
2026 midwinter88472156100.64%
2026 midwinter98770157201.27%
2026 midwinter106173134302.24%
2026 midwinter115645101100.99%
2026 midwinter12453782101.22%
2026 midwinter13503989000.00%
2026 midwinter14563591000.00%
2026 midwinter15302858000.00%
2026 midwinter16232447102.13%
2026 midwinter17202646000.00%
2026 midwinter18251035000.00%
2026 midwinter19141125000.00%
2026 midwinter20131427000.00%
2026 midwinter21151429000.00%
2026 midwinter22161228103.57%
2026 midwinter2391322000.00%
2026 midwinter2481018105.56%
2026 midwinter2513922104.55%
2026 midwinter268614107.14%
2026 midwinter273912000.00%
2026 midwinter288513000.00%
2026 midwinter293693333.33%
2026 midwinter3001111100.00%
2025 midwinter0106150256000.00%
2025 midwinter19099189000.00%
2025 midwinter27188159000.00%
2025 midwinter34575120000.00%
2025 midwinter44779126000.00%
2025 midwinter5364278000.00%
2025 midwinter6263258000.00%
2025 midwinter7375491000.00%
2025 midwinter8233659000.00%
2025 midwinter9213455000.00%
2025 midwinter10173047000.00%
2025 midwinter11233962000.00%
2025 midwinter12253257000.00%
2025 midwinter13114152000.00%
2025 midwinter14192039102.56%
2025 midwinter15121527207.41%
2025 midwinter1618927000.00%
2025 midwinter17102030000.00%
2025 midwinter1841115000.00%
2025 midwinter19131124000.00%
2025 midwinter2014620000.00%
2025 midwinter2191322000.00%
2025 midwinter2261622104.55%
2025 midwinter2351520000.00%
2025 midwinter247714000.00%
2025 midwinter254812000.00%
2025 midwinter26189000.00%
2025 midwinter27314000.00%
2025 midwinter283710000.00%
2025 midwinter29314000.00%
2025 midwinter30202000.00%

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 10, 202619A (north of AZ Hwy 89A and that portion south of AZ Hwy 89A that is east of Fain Rd, north of AZ Hwy 69/169, and west of FR 151/643)Buck pronghorn20220
2025 midwinterSep 12 - Sep 18, 2025and west of FR 151/643) 19BBuck pronghorn515

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 2023 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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