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Arizona pronghorn hunt 2025

21. 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 5 hunt permit-tags on hunt 2025 in 2026, of which at most 1 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 688 applications named it, and 5 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 midwinter0424991000.00%
2026 midwinter1352964000.00%
2026 midwinter2413172000.00%
2026 midwinter3272552101.92%
2026 midwinter481018000.00%
2026 midwinter5121729000.00%
2026 midwinter6201232000.00%
2026 midwinter7181836000.00%
2026 midwinter8171532000.00%
2026 midwinter9131225000.00%
2026 midwinter10181331000.00%
2026 midwinter11111526000.00%
2026 midwinter12101222000.00%
2026 midwinter1317926000.00%
2026 midwinter144610000.00%
2026 midwinter159918000.00%
2026 midwinter168917000.00%
2026 midwinter1798172011.76%
2026 midwinter187714000.00%
2026 midwinter1964101010.00%
2026 midwinter20538000.00%
2026 midwinter2110111000.00%
2026 midwinter22314000.00%
2026 midwinter23426000.00%
2026 midwinter24213000.00%
2026 midwinter25505000.00%
2026 midwinter26033000.00%
2026 midwinter27404000.00%
2026 midwinter28011000.00%
2026 midwinter2910111100.00%
2025 midwinter0444589000.00%
2025 midwinter1392261000.00%
2025 midwinter2423577101.30%
2025 midwinter3313162000.00%
2025 midwinter4353671000.00%
2025 midwinter5261541000.00%
2025 midwinter6231639000.00%
2025 midwinter7182240000.00%
2025 midwinter8262147102.13%
2025 midwinter9211738102.63%
2025 midwinter1015823000.00%
2025 midwinter11131124000.00%
2025 midwinter1211718000.00%
2025 midwinter138917000.00%
2025 midwinter146814000.00%
2025 midwinter1561016000.00%
2025 midwinter168513000.00%
2025 midwinter17538000.00%
2025 midwinter18314000.00%
2025 midwinter19145000.00%
2025 midwinter20639000.00%
2025 midwinter21145000.00%
2025 midwinter22011000.00%
2025 midwinter23336000.00%
2025 midwinter24224000.00%
2025 midwinter252572028.57%
2025 midwinter26213000.00%
2025 midwinter2710111100.00%

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, 202621Buck pronghorn515
2025 midwinterSep 5 - Sep 14, 202530ABuck pronghorn616

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 2025 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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