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Arizona pronghorn hunt 2030

3B. 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 2030 in 2026, of which at most 1 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 729 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 midwinter0363773000.00%
2026 midwinter1232649000.00%
2026 midwinter2333366101.52%
2026 midwinter3232245000.00%
2026 midwinter4161632000.00%
2026 midwinter5211839000.00%
2026 midwinter6223759000.00%
2026 midwinter7152742000.00%
2026 midwinter8212243102.33%
2026 midwinter9121527000.00%
2026 midwinter10111627000.00%
2026 midwinter11141933000.00%
2026 midwinter12211334000.00%
2026 midwinter13141125000.00%
2026 midwinter1413922000.00%
2026 midwinter154913000.00%
2026 midwinter169918000.00%
2026 midwinter171010202010.00%
2026 midwinter18369000.00%
2026 midwinter197714000.00%
2026 midwinter20347000.00%
2026 midwinter21336000.00%
2026 midwinter22112000.00%
2026 midwinter23235000.00%
2026 midwinter24235000.00%
2026 midwinter25224000.00%
2026 midwinter26224000.00%
2026 midwinter27224000.00%
2026 midwinter28011000.00%
2026 midwinter2910111100.00%
2025 midwinter0161228000.00%
2025 midwinter1161632000.00%
2025 midwinter2142337000.00%
2025 midwinter3152035000.00%
2025 midwinter4162036000.00%
2025 midwinter5112637000.00%
2025 midwinter6131528000.00%
2025 midwinter7101727000.00%
2025 midwinter825833000.00%
2025 midwinter9151126000.00%
2025 midwinter10122032103.13%
2025 midwinter11122133000.00%
2025 midwinter12211839102.56%
2025 midwinter13121325000.00%
2025 midwinter148917105.88%
2025 midwinter157512000.00%
2025 midwinter1611718105.56%
2025 midwinter173710000.00%
2025 midwinter186915000.00%
2025 midwinter19538000.00%
2025 midwinter20279000.00%
2025 midwinter21011000.00%
2025 midwinter22134000.00%
2025 midwinter23101000.00%
2025 midwinter24134000.00%
2025 midwinter25134000.00%
2025 midwinter261121150.00%
2025 midwinter27011000.00%

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, 20263BBuck pronghorn515
2025 midwinterSep 5 - Sep 14, 20258Buck pronghorn515

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 2030 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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