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Arizona pronghorn hunt 2042

4B. 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 2042 in 2026, of which at most 1 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 321 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 midwinter061016000.00%
2026 midwinter1111425000.00%
2026 midwinter2142236000.00%
2026 midwinter3111324000.00%
2026 midwinter46814000.00%
2026 midwinter59918000.00%
2026 midwinter69817105.88%
2026 midwinter7111021000.00%
2026 midwinter8101626000.00%
2026 midwinter97613107.69%
2026 midwinter10107173017.65%
2026 midwinter1171118000.00%
2026 midwinter1214923000.00%
2026 midwinter133811000.00%
2026 midwinter145611000.00%
2026 midwinter1546101010.00%
2026 midwinter16213000.00%
2026 midwinter17224000.00%
2026 midwinter18145000.00%
2026 midwinter19213000.00%
2026 midwinter20022000.00%
2026 midwinter21011000.00%
2026 midwinter22011000.00%
2026 midwinter24011000.00%
2026 midwinter2710111100.00%
2025 midwinter071623000.00%
2025 midwinter1111122000.00%
2025 midwinter2161127000.00%
2025 midwinter314822000.00%
2025 midwinter47916000.00%
2025 midwinter58311000.00%
2025 midwinter69615000.00%
2025 midwinter7101323104.35%
2025 midwinter881220000.00%
2025 midwinter910515000.00%
2025 midwinter1089174023.53%
2025 midwinter1113518000.00%
2025 midwinter128614000.00%
2025 midwinter136511000.00%
2025 midwinter142911000.00%
2025 midwinter15538000.00%
2025 midwinter16011000.00%
2025 midwinter176391011.11%
2025 midwinter18088000.00%
2025 midwinter21011000.00%
2025 midwinter22011000.00%
2025 midwinter23011000.00%
2025 midwinter241121150.00%

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, 20264BBuck pronghorn717
2025 midwinterAug 22 - Sep 4, 20254BBuck 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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