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Arizona pronghorn hunt 2044

5B. 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 8 hunt permit-tags on hunt 2044 in 2026, of which at most 1 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 758 applications named it, and 8 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 midwinter0242145000.00%
2026 midwinter1332558000.00%
2026 midwinter2383270101.43%
2026 midwinter3312758000.00%
2026 midwinter4192140000.00%
2026 midwinter5211839000.00%
2026 midwinter6141529000.00%
2026 midwinter7241236102.78%
2026 midwinter8191938102.63%
2026 midwinter9282553101.89%
2026 midwinter10171229103.45%
2026 midwinter11111324000.00%
2026 midwinter12251136000.00%
2026 midwinter13161733000.00%
2026 midwinter1415621000.00%
2026 midwinter15181331000.00%
2026 midwinter1620828000.00%
2026 midwinter1714014000.00%
2026 midwinter18448000.00%
2026 midwinter197916000.00%
2026 midwinter2010717105.88%
2026 midwinter21729000.00%
2026 midwinter22415000.00%
2026 midwinter232241025.00%
2026 midwinter24279000.00%
2026 midwinter25426000.00%
2026 midwinter26101000.00%
2026 midwinter2701111100.00%
2025 midwinter0383472000.00%
2025 midwinter1382159101.69%
2025 midwinter2242751000.00%
2025 midwinter3251944204.55%
2025 midwinter4291847000.00%
2025 midwinter5141731000.00%
2025 midwinter6261541000.00%
2025 midwinter7191433000.00%
2025 midwinter8292554000.00%
2025 midwinter928836000.00%
2025 midwinter10161632103.13%
2025 midwinter11261440000.00%
2025 midwinter12241438000.00%
2025 midwinter1319827000.00%
2025 midwinter14191332103.13%
2025 midwinter15271441102.44%
2025 midwinter16101020000.00%
2025 midwinter175914000.00%
2025 midwinter1851217000.00%
2025 midwinter198816106.25%
2025 midwinter207310000.00%
2025 midwinter21224000.00%
2025 midwinter22325000.00%
2025 midwinter23235000.00%
2025 midwinter24325000.00%
2025 midwinter251561116.67%
2025 midwinter26101000.00%

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, 20265BBuck pronghorn818
2025 midwinterAug 22 - Sep 4, 20255BBuck pronghorn818

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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