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Arizona pronghorn hunt 2043

5A. 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 2 hunt permit-tags on hunt 2043 in 2026, of which at most 1 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 154 applications named it, and 2 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 22.

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 midwinter015924000.00%
2026 midwinter1459000.00%
2026 midwinter27613107.69%
2026 midwinter3628000.00%
2026 midwinter4639000.00%
2026 midwinter56410000.00%
2026 midwinter6448000.00%
2026 midwinter7347000.00%
2026 midwinter8246000.00%
2026 midwinter9235000.00%
2026 midwinter105611000.00%
2026 midwinter11448000.00%
2026 midwinter12358000.00%
2026 midwinter13527000.00%
2026 midwinter14213000.00%
2026 midwinter15123000.00%
2026 midwinter16426000.00%
2026 midwinter17011000.00%
2026 midwinter18202000.00%
2026 midwinter20224000.00%
2026 midwinter21011000.00%
2026 midwinter2201111100.00%
2025 midwinter0101121000.00%
2025 midwinter14913000.00%
2025 midwinter26612000.00%
2025 midwinter33912000.00%
2025 midwinter4358000.00%
2025 midwinter5178000.00%
2025 midwinter67512000.00%
2025 midwinter74711000.00%
2025 midwinter8538000.00%
2025 midwinter9134000.00%
2025 midwinter105611000.00%
2025 midwinter11156000.00%
2025 midwinter12134000.00%
2025 midwinter13314000.00%
2025 midwinter146391011.11%
2025 midwinter15268000.00%
2025 midwinter18011000.00%
2025 midwinter19415000.00%
2025 midwinter20022000.00%
2025 midwinter21101000.00%
2025 midwinter22011000.00%
2025 midwinter24101000.00%
2025 midwinter3101111100.00%

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, 20265ABuck pronghorn212
2025 midwinterAug 22 - Sep 4, 20255ABuck pronghorn212

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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