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Arizona pronghorn hunt 2038

1. 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 30 hunt permit-tags on hunt 2038 in 2026, of which at most 3 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 1,150 applications named it, and 30 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 midwinter06349112000.00%
2026 midwinter15749106000.00%
2026 midwinter2384583101.20%
2026 midwinter3474289101.12%
2026 midwinter4383371000.00%
2026 midwinter5442771202.82%
2026 midwinter6413879101.27%
2026 midwinter7504696404.17%
2026 midwinter8413172202.78%
2026 midwinter9373572405.56%
2026 midwinter10404282303.66%
2026 midwinter11183048000.00%
2026 midwinter12212445000.00%
2026 midwinter1320828103.57%
2026 midwinter14141327103.70%
2026 midwinter1514923104.35%
2026 midwinter169918105.56%
2026 midwinter17448000.00%
2026 midwinter181341025.00%
2026 midwinter193472128.57%
2026 midwinter20011000.00%
2026 midwinter212242250.00%
2026 midwinter220221150.00%
2026 midwinter2301111100.00%
2026 midwinter2910111100.00%
2025 midwinter05954113000.00%
2025 midwinter1455398000.00%
2025 midwinter27757134201.49%
2025 midwinter35944103201.94%
2025 midwinter4473986202.33%
2025 midwinter5362763101.59%
2025 midwinter6402868405.88%
2025 midwinter7324981000.00%
2025 midwinter8442670405.71%
2025 midwinter9393675000.00%
2025 midwinter10273259203.39%
2025 midwinter11181937000.00%
2025 midwinter12232245204.44%
2025 midwinter13172239102.56%
2025 midwinter1491120105.00%
2025 midwinter1596152013.33%
2025 midwinter1631013000.00%
2025 midwinter175271014.29%
2025 midwinter18246000.00%
2025 midwinter19011000.00%
2025 midwinter20426000.00%
2025 midwinter2111222100.00%
2025 midwinter2201111100.00%
2025 midwinter2320222100.00%
2025 midwinter2701111100.00%

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 21 - Sep 3, 20261Buck pronghorn30330
2025 midwinterAug 22 - Sep 4, 20251Buck pronghorn30330

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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