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Arizona · Pronghorn · Hunt 2028

Arizona pronghorn hunt 2028

35A (excluding Fort Huachuca) and 35B. 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 2028 in 2026, of which at most 1 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 902 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 30.

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 midwinter07447121000.00%
2026 midwinter17142113000.00%
2026 midwinter2493382000.00%
2026 midwinter3572279000.00%
2026 midwinter4311748000.00%
2026 midwinter5161531000.00%
2026 midwinter6283058000.00%
2026 midwinter7311849000.00%
2026 midwinter8261743000.00%
2026 midwinter9271138000.00%
2026 midwinter1024832103.13%
2026 midwinter11141024000.00%
2026 midwinter12101222000.00%
2026 midwinter1313821000.00%
2026 midwinter1412618000.00%
2026 midwinter1510616000.00%
2026 midwinter1610919000.00%
2026 midwinter173710000.00%
2026 midwinter1811213000.00%
2026 midwinter1911213000.00%
2026 midwinter206410000.00%
2026 midwinter21459000.00%
2026 midwinter22202000.00%
2026 midwinter23314000.00%
2026 midwinter24325000.00%
2026 midwinter25246000.00%
2026 midwinter26347000.00%
2026 midwinter27314000.00%
2026 midwinter28314000.00%
2026 midwinter3010111100.00%
2025 midwinter0151934000.00%
2025 midwinter1171633103.03%
2025 midwinter2272148000.00%
2025 midwinter3221941000.00%
2025 midwinter4211940000.00%
2025 midwinter5202545000.00%
2025 midwinter6151934000.00%
2025 midwinter7171128000.00%
2025 midwinter8212344000.00%
2025 midwinter9221537000.00%
2025 midwinter101617334012.12%
2025 midwinter1181826103.85%
2025 midwinter1213821000.00%
2025 midwinter13171431000.00%
2025 midwinter1481119000.00%
2025 midwinter155712000.00%
2025 midwinter1681523104.35%
2025 midwinter177714000.00%
2025 midwinter18235000.00%
2025 midwinter1964101010.00%
2025 midwinter20527000.00%
2025 midwinter21369000.00%
2025 midwinter22448000.00%
2025 midwinter23303000.00%
2025 midwinter24459000.00%
2025 midwinter25022000.00%
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, 202635A (excluding Fort Huachuca) and 35BBuck pronghorn212
2025 midwinterSep 5 - Sep 14, 20252BBuck pronghorn919

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 2028 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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