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Arizona · Pronghorn · Hunt 2036

Arizona pronghorn hunt 2036

19A (north of AZ Hwy 89A and that portion south of AZ Hwy 89A that is east of Fain Rd, north of AZ Hwy 69/169, and west of FR 151/643). 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 2036 in 2026, of which at most 1 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 591 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 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 midwinter0151227000.00%
2026 midwinter1172441000.00%
2026 midwinter2183048204.17%
2026 midwinter3211839000.00%
2026 midwinter4171229000.00%
2026 midwinter5141428000.00%
2026 midwinter6181129000.00%
2026 midwinter7151631000.00%
2026 midwinter8131932103.13%
2026 midwinter991726000.00%
2026 midwinter1091423000.00%
2026 midwinter1181119000.00%
2026 midwinter12132033000.00%
2026 midwinter13121022000.00%
2026 midwinter14181836000.00%
2026 midwinter157916000.00%
2026 midwinter1671421000.00%
2026 midwinter176612000.00%
2026 midwinter188917000.00%
2026 midwinter198513000.00%
2026 midwinter202681012.50%
2026 midwinter21268000.00%
2026 midwinter22123000.00%
2026 midwinter23235000.00%
2026 midwinter24549000.00%
2026 midwinter25145000.00%
2026 midwinter26134000.00%
2026 midwinter281341125.00%
2026 midwinter29112000.00%
2026 midwinter30011000.00%
2025 midwinter0182846000.00%
2025 midwinter1293362000.00%
2025 midwinter2193352000.00%
2025 midwinter3232043000.00%
2025 midwinter4221840000.00%
2025 midwinter5101626000.00%
2025 midwinter6141327000.00%
2025 midwinter7141125000.00%
2025 midwinter8131629000.00%
2025 midwinter9121729000.00%
2025 midwinter10131831103.23%
2025 midwinter11141327103.70%
2025 midwinter12191029000.00%
2025 midwinter13131730000.00%
2025 midwinter1451015000.00%
2025 midwinter156612108.33%
2025 midwinter168917000.00%
2025 midwinter179716000.00%
2025 midwinter187411000.00%
2025 midwinter197310000.00%
2025 midwinter2041115000.00%
2025 midwinter21167000.00%
2025 midwinter22134000.00%
2025 midwinter23347000.00%
2025 midwinter24707000.00%
2025 midwinter254481012.50%
2025 midwinter26224000.00%
2025 midwinter27336000.00%
2025 midwinter28112000.00%
2025 midwinter3010111100.00%

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 midwinterAug 28 - Sep 3, 202619A (north of AZ Hwy 89A and that portion south of AZ Hwy 89A that is east of Fain Rd, north of AZ Hwy 69/169, and west of FR 151/643)Buck pronghorn515
2025 midwinterAug 29 - Sep 4, 2025AZ Hwy 89A that is east of Fain Rd, north of AZ HwyBuck pronghorn515

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 2036 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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