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Arizona pronghorn hunt 2029

2B. 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 2029 in 2026, of which at most 1 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 527 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 28.

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 midwinter0171431000.00%
2026 midwinter1162036000.00%
2026 midwinter2211839000.00%
2026 midwinter3151934000.00%
2026 midwinter4211132000.00%
2026 midwinter591322000.00%
2026 midwinter6211233000.00%
2026 midwinter781826000.00%
2026 midwinter8161531000.00%
2026 midwinter9191736102.78%
2026 midwinter10111526207.69%
2026 midwinter11101525000.00%
2026 midwinter12121729000.00%
2026 midwinter134913000.00%
2026 midwinter14121325000.00%
2026 midwinter155914000.00%
2026 midwinter169716000.00%
2026 midwinter177815000.00%
2026 midwinter18459000.00%
2026 midwinter19167000.00%
2026 midwinter20246000.00%
2026 midwinter210551020.00%
2026 midwinter22101000.00%
2026 midwinter23235000.00%
2026 midwinter24235000.00%
2026 midwinter25314000.00%
2026 midwinter2701111100.00%
2026 midwinter28011000.00%
2025 midwinter0182442000.00%
2025 midwinter1213051000.00%
2025 midwinter2272350000.00%
2025 midwinter3182139000.00%
2025 midwinter4242347000.00%
2025 midwinter5181634000.00%
2025 midwinter612921000.00%
2025 midwinter7171835000.00%
2025 midwinter8172138000.00%
2025 midwinter981725000.00%
2025 midwinter10111526000.00%
2025 midwinter1114923000.00%
2025 midwinter1210818000.00%
2025 midwinter1313922000.00%
2025 midwinter14279000.00%
2025 midwinter156511109.09%
2025 midwinter1681119000.00%
2025 midwinter17437000.00%
2025 midwinter184711000.00%
2025 midwinter19033000.00%
2025 midwinter20235000.00%
2025 midwinter21639000.00%
2025 midwinter22268000.00%
2025 midwinter23404000.00%
2025 midwinter242131033.33%
2025 midwinter25022000.00%
2025 midwinter264261116.67%

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, 20262BBuck pronghorn515
2025 midwinterSep 5 - Sep 14, 20253BBuck pronghorn313

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 2029 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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