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Arizona pronghorn hunt 2040

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 7 hunt permit-tags on hunt 2040 in 2026, of which at most 1 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 309 applications named it, and 7 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 27.

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 midwinter0131427000.00%
2026 midwinter1101424000.00%
2026 midwinter2181432000.00%
2026 midwinter381523000.00%
2026 midwinter4101424000.00%
2026 midwinter551015000.00%
2026 midwinter66915000.00%
2026 midwinter7161026000.00%
2026 midwinter851520000.00%
2026 midwinter951419000.00%
2026 midwinter107916000.00%
2026 midwinter114913000.00%
2026 midwinter123811000.00%
2026 midwinter13437000.00%
2026 midwinter143361016.67%
2026 midwinter153582025.00%
2026 midwinter160771014.29%
2026 midwinter17044000.00%
2026 midwinter18033000.00%
2026 midwinter193472028.57%
2026 midwinter20011000.00%
2026 midwinter2701111100.00%
2025 midwinter0132134000.00%
2025 midwinter115722104.55%
2025 midwinter2172239000.00%
2025 midwinter3111728103.57%
2025 midwinter4111223000.00%
2025 midwinter52911000.00%
2025 midwinter671118105.56%
2025 midwinter7111021000.00%
2025 midwinter851318000.00%
2025 midwinter912820000.00%
2025 midwinter1071421104.76%
2025 midwinter117714107.14%
2025 midwinter124711000.00%
2025 midwinter1346101010.00%
2025 midwinter14527000.00%
2025 midwinter15235000.00%
2025 midwinter16022000.00%
2025 midwinter17145000.00%
2025 midwinter18426000.00%
2025 midwinter2001111100.00%

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, 20263BBuck pronghorn717
2025 midwinterAug 22 - Sep 4, 20253BBuck pronghorn717

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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