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Arizona pronghorn hunt 2027

31 and 32. 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 2027 in 2026, of which at most 1 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 1,289 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 33.

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 midwinter06469133000.00%
2026 midwinter18981170000.00%
2026 midwinter2434790000.00%
2026 midwinter38253135000.00%
2026 midwinter4403171000.00%
2026 midwinter5423274000.00%
2026 midwinter6452873000.00%
2026 midwinter7422870000.00%
2026 midwinter8334073000.00%
2026 midwinter9282250000.00%
2026 midwinter10311344000.00%
2026 midwinter11251439102.56%
2026 midwinter12221638000.00%
2026 midwinter13191029000.00%
2026 midwinter14191130000.00%
2026 midwinter1515823000.00%
2026 midwinter1617421000.00%
2026 midwinter1710717000.00%
2026 midwinter183811000.00%
2026 midwinter199716106.25%
2026 midwinter2010313000.00%
2026 midwinter21819000.00%
2026 midwinter22459000.00%
2026 midwinter23617000.00%
2026 midwinter24639000.00%
2026 midwinter2511213000.00%
2026 midwinter26213000.00%
2026 midwinter27246000.00%
2026 midwinter28415000.00%
2026 midwinter29235000.00%
2026 midwinter30202000.00%
2026 midwinter3310111100.00%
2025 midwinter07847125000.00%
2025 midwinter17552127000.00%
2025 midwinter2543488000.00%
2025 midwinter3512475000.00%
2025 midwinter4321345102.22%
2025 midwinter5272148000.00%
2025 midwinter6111223000.00%
2025 midwinter7191635000.00%
2025 midwinter828836000.00%
2025 midwinter9261642000.00%
2025 midwinter10251338000.00%
2025 midwinter11131023000.00%
2025 midwinter128614000.00%
2025 midwinter1315621000.00%
2025 midwinter1416319000.00%
2025 midwinter1511213000.00%
2025 midwinter16549000.00%
2025 midwinter1711314000.00%
2025 midwinter1871017000.00%
2025 midwinter196511000.00%
2025 midwinter20639000.00%
2025 midwinter21325000.00%
2025 midwinter22516000.00%
2025 midwinter23437000.00%
2025 midwinter24505000.00%
2025 midwinter25718000.00%
2025 midwinter26224000.00%
2025 midwinter27325000.00%
2025 midwinter28101000.00%
2025 midwinter2910111100.00%

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, 202631 and 32Buck pronghorn313
2025 midwinterSep 5 - Sep 14, 202535A (excluding Fort Huachuca) and 35BBuck pronghorn212

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 2027 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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