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Arizona pronghorn hunt 2047

7. 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 10 hunt permit-tags on hunt 2047 in 2026, of which at most 1 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 659 applications named it, and 10 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.

Arizona's own two reports disagree about this hunt. Summing the permits the Bonus Point Report gives at each level does not reproduce the total its own Draw Report states for the same hunt in 2025 midwinter. Both published figures are shown — the level rows below come from the Bonus Point Report, the authorized and issued totals above from the Draw Report. We have not resolved the difference in either direction, because the department has not.

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 midwinter0193251000.00%
2026 midwinter1223860000.00%
2026 midwinter2163955101.82%
2026 midwinter3233962000.00%
2026 midwinter4263258000.00%
2026 midwinter5182240000.00%
2026 midwinter6121729000.00%
2026 midwinter7142135102.86%
2026 midwinter8112637000.00%
2026 midwinter9142741102.44%
2026 midwinter10101828000.00%
2026 midwinter11161834102.94%
2026 midwinter12111627000.00%
2026 midwinter1371017000.00%
2026 midwinter148917105.88%
2026 midwinter1512921000.00%
2026 midwinter1641115106.67%
2026 midwinter171341025.00%
2026 midwinter18246000.00%
2026 midwinter19279000.00%
2026 midwinter201561016.67%
2026 midwinter21101000.00%
2026 midwinter223032266.67%
2026 midwinter24022000.00%
2026 midwinter27011000.00%
2025 midwinter0133144000.00%
2025 midwinter1192039000.00%
2025 midwinter2222850000.00%
2025 midwinter3292251000.00%
2025 midwinter4172340102.50%
2025 midwinter5121628103.57%
2025 midwinter6171734205.88%
2025 midwinter793140102.50%
2025 midwinter8211536205.56%
2025 midwinter9151934000.00%
2025 midwinter1082129000.00%
2025 midwinter11101828000.00%
2025 midwinter1241620000.00%
2025 midwinter136410000.00%
2025 midwinter1461319000.00%
2025 midwinter155914000.00%
2025 midwinter16347000.00%
2025 midwinter17325000.00%
2025 midwinter18112000.00%
2025 midwinter19426000.00%
2025 midwinter202241125.00%
2025 midwinter210331133.33%
2025 midwinter23011000.00%

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, 20267Buck pronghorn10110
2025 midwinterAug 22 - Sep 4, 20257Buck pronghorn10110

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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