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Arizona pronghorn hunt 2035

18B. 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 1 hunt permit-tag on hunt 2035 in 2026, of which at most 0 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 101 applications named it, and 1 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 26.

Arizona's own two reports disagree about this hunt. Summing the permits the Bonus Point Report gives at each level does not reproduce the total its own Draw Report states for the same hunt in 2025 midwinter. Both published figures are shown — the level rows below come from the Bonus Point Report, the authorized and issued totals above from the Draw Report. We have not resolved the difference in either direction, because the department has not.

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 midwinter04711000.00%
2026 midwinter1213000.00%
2026 midwinter2426000.00%
2026 midwinter3448000.00%
2026 midwinter4011000.00%
2026 midwinter5134000.00%
2026 midwinter6224000.00%
2026 midwinter7235000.00%
2026 midwinter8336000.00%
2026 midwinter9156000.00%
2026 midwinter10448000.00%
2026 midwinter11325000.00%
2026 midwinter12112000.00%
2026 midwinter13213000.00%
2026 midwinter14156000.00%
2026 midwinter15224000.00%
2026 midwinter16134000.00%
2026 midwinter17011000.00%
2026 midwinter183141025.00%
2026 midwinter19011000.00%
2026 midwinter21112000.00%
2026 midwinter22011000.00%
2026 midwinter23101000.00%
2026 midwinter24202000.00%
2026 midwinter25101000.00%
2026 midwinter26022000.00%
2025 midwinter0257000.00%
2025 midwinter1235000.00%
2025 midwinter2213000.00%
2025 midwinter3145000.00%
2025 midwinter4145000.00%
2025 midwinter5268000.00%
2025 midwinter6145000.00%
2025 midwinter7112000.00%
2025 midwinter8112000.00%
2025 midwinter9224000.00%
2025 midwinter106511000.00%
2025 midwinter12044000.00%
2025 midwinter13112000.00%
2025 midwinter14033000.00%
2025 midwinter15101000.00%
2025 midwinter16314000.00%
2025 midwinter17022000.00%
2025 midwinter18011000.00%
2025 midwinter20134000.00%
2025 midwinter22011000.00%
2025 midwinter23101000.00%
2025 midwinter24101000.00%

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. This hunt issued no permits at all in the bonus pass in any published cycle, which is ordinary: the pass covers 20 per cent of permits and only applications holding at least one point.

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 10, 202618BBuck pronghorn101
2025 midwinterSep 5 - Sep 11, 202518BBuck pronghorn101

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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